Good point Bill.
As Ten Tec ALWAYS told folks on the phone, if you are having trouble with just
about anything regarding flakey problems like this, recap the A9 board.
I have cured several Orion’s with this repair.
Gary
W0DVN
> On Dec 15, 2019, at 2:27 PM, Bill Cotter <n4lg@qx.net> wrote:
>
> Enzo,
>
> My Orion-II had exactly the same symptoms, on a couple of occasions. The
> master resets helped for a while, then the same problem came back. Looking at
> the DC power cable connector, it was fine. So, I opened it up.
>
> The first thing I did was to replace ALL the electrolytic capacitors on the
> A9 power supply board with high-quality 105C capacitors. I then checked both
> batteries (CPU & AT), and replaced them. The last thing I did was to DeOxit
> ALL connectors in the radio (quite a job). It has never had a problem since.
>
> 73 Bill N4LG
>
>
> At 12:10 PM 12/15/2019, you wrote:
>> Hallo everyone,
>>
>> I'm a happy owner of a Orion since 2005. Today, while it was transmitting my
>> home energy was suddenly interrupted. After switching the RTX on, it
>> started behaving in a strange way: both VFO seems ok but no band reception;
>> only the buttons around the display are active, the others don't work; no
>> transmission. I performed a Master Reset and then a Ram Clear (followed by a
>> master reset). Now it switch on, the volume goes up an down, some noise
>> comes out from the speaker, but the 20m are silent, only electronic noise.
>>
>> Is there any clue to bring it alive again?
>>
>> Thanks and 73 de IK3SWB, Enzo.
>>
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