Negative. Replacing the 6.8k ohm resistor with a 680 ohm resistor produced the same 'NO SIGNAL' error.
I have a working version of this generator from Hatsune Mike's original design, given to me by 300wins, that works flawlessly. But I don't think it is the PCB design. Frank and XianXi are highly competent engineers and it is too simple of a circuit to have messed up in two places. Like XianXi said, it is likely a components issue.
I don't think the resistors, caps, and the diode that I used are the problem. May just be the Texas Instruments versions of these two IC's are at fault. Looking around the net at the few working productions out there, everyone else is using ON Semiconductor, Motorola, or some combination of different vendors for the two IC's. I am going to mess with what I have on hand tomorrow. Move the working components from Mike's PCB over to Frank's and vice or versa and report back. For the time being, I am going to remove the link to the Digikey project list I posted. If it is the components, don't want anyone getting those parts and running into the same problems.
@XianXi, can you confirm which manufacturer produced the IC's that you used?
On a side note, anyone know by the logo which manufacturer made this IC (it's the eBay version of the generator)?