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Re: [TenTec] Omni VII first impressions....odd things i.e. SWRvalues

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Subject: Re: [TenTec] Omni VII first impressions....odd things i.e. SWRvalues
From: Alan Sewell <alan.n5na@gmail.com>
Reply-to: alan.n5na@gmail.com, Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 18:33:02 -0600
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Why don't you open it up and poke around. Check all the connectors and make sure all the screws are tight.

A while ago someone found a toroid bent over on the bandpass board causing a high current shutdown. Could be something like that.

You never know!

73,

Alan  N5NA

http://www.tentecwiki.org



Mike Bryce wrote:
Mike and everyone...

thought of that... but the meter shows forward power and zero reflected....

if the cable were bad, I would not see forward power of 80 watts


and ... I changed the cables and the results are the same..

both cables are new and or have been replaced!!

the power output meter on the Omni VII shows full 100 watts output. Switch over to swr and I see anywhere from 1.2 to 9.9 to 1

and...

key down for more than 10 seconds, and the swr meter (on the radio) changes up and down.

Switch over to power (on the radio) and the power level DOES NOT change!

If there were a cable problem, that would not be possible as the swr going up, the power would have to go down and the high current warning would come on

speaking of which..

transmitting into a antenna that is not the correct one for the band, (my 80 meter dipole with the rig set for 40 meter) will cause the high current warning and then shuts down the radio.



Mike, WB8VGE
SunLight Energy Systems
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