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Re: [TenTec] About the ACOM/Orion

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Subject: Re: [TenTec] About the ACOM/Orion
From: "Bob Henderson" <bob@cytanet.com.cy>
Reply-to: tentec@contesting.com
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 21:10:53 -0000
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NJ0IP wrote:

> 2. The ACOM uses more sophisticated fault monitoring, especially with this
> ACR FAULT that is currently pestering many OM.  The ARC FAULT on the ACOM
> has nothing to do with tube flashovers, but rather flags a condition where
> RF is seen at its input when the relay is not settled in the TX position.

Ah.....that sounds remarkably like what Alpha would report as a "T/R Fault".

> GUYS, BELIEVE ME, the "right people" in the "right places" are working
very
> hard on this issue.

Thank goodness.  I'll sleep easy tonight :-))

> In answer to the speculation about whether the problem occurs when keying
> with the loop or the single cable, the answer is "both and neither".  We
> found that we could key the ACOM permanently (externally) without any T/R
> keying cable between the two boxes and then just apply RF from the Orion
and
> the problem still occurs.

Apparently not a T/R fault then, albeit reported as one.

The plot thickens.

Bob, 5B4AGN, P3F


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