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Re: Topband: Noise in the Shack - A new noise!

To: Tom W8JI <w8ji@w8ji.com>
Subject: Re: Topband: Noise in the Shack - A new noise!
From: W2PM <w2pm@aol.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 07:38:57 -0400
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I'm done with external drives and now use cloud based backup services. Never 
worry now about the timelinness and availability of the backups. 

Sent from my iPad

On Jun 26, 2012, at 8:18, "Tom W8JI" <w8ji@w8ji.com> wrote:

> I was distracted for a week trying to recover a lost disk but I put the SSD 
> in place again yesterday. This time I wrapped the SSD in aluminium foil and 
> put 2 clamp on cores on the SATA cable. I fired up my system, and the extra 
> measures had no noticeable improvement on the birdie situation. The
> birdies appear as soon as I power up the drive.>>>
> 
> A local Ham, who has "not particularly good" wiring in his shack and 
> close-by antennas, uses SS drives without reporting issues.
> 
> Are your drives inside the computer? Have you run checks to see what the 
> point of egress from the computer, or ingress to the receiving system, are?
> 
> I'm not a big fan of throwing beads at noise issues, or wrapping things. 
> Usually that isn't a good solution. Running a series of tests to locate the 
> point of leakage is usually faster and better.
> 
> Are there any good articles on how to run tests that anyone is aware of?
> 
> 73 Tom 
> 
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