"Contester" interferes w/ pc: Help!

[David Robbins]

John Nicholson wrote:

> ...but he bad news is I still haven't found a solution to the Aptiva!
> Does anyone have any experience with this pc...and what I can do next?
> As you can see, I'll go to any extent to get this problem solved...  

buy her a new computer for a wedding gift?

how are the speakers driven?  i have a pair of cheap radio shack 
speakers driven off a soundblaster board.  i had allsorts of rf
problems until i figured out that i should get rid of the power
cube and instead of using the internal amps in the speakers i run
them off the amplified output from the soundblaster.  no caps, no
toroids, and no more rf.

-- 
David Robbins K1TTT (ex KY1H)
k1ttt at berkshire.net   or   robbins at berkshire.net
http://www.berkshire.net/~robbins/k1ttt.html

>From py2ny at supernet.com.br (PY2NY)  Wed Feb 12 01:47:15 1997
From: py2ny at supernet.com.br (PY2NY) (PY2NY)
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 22:47:15 -0300
Subject: "Contester" interferes w/ pc: Help!
Message-ID: <199702112341.UAA08765 at batman.supernet.com.br>

Please, stay with your future wife and change computer.
Congrats...
73


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> De: John Nicholson <k7fd at netbridge.net>
> Para: CQ-Contest at tgv.com
> Assunto: "Contester" interferes w/ pc: Help!
> Data: Ter=E7a-feira, 11 de Fevereiro de 1997 19:33
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> I know there may be better places to post this, but the smartest
> hams hang out on this reflector & I need advice, so here goes:
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> My neighbor 300' away had an Aptiva 120MHz pentium. No matter
> what I did, I still got into her computer speakers. Being a good
> ham (let's pretend I didn't notice her long blonde hair, ok?) I
> offered to come up with a solution. With that in mind,
> I put .01 caps on the speaker leads, wrapped the speaker=20
> leads around RF choke torroids, and put a brute force telephone
> filter on her modem. But the speakers STILL picked up my ssb and cw=20
> (I run 200w out...3 el Quad up 60'). I even switched out speakers
> and have had the same problems. The good news is...
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> ...in the meantime, she fell in love with me, moved in, learned the
> code, is taking her Tech Plus this weekend...and we are getting
> married in July!...
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> ...but he bad news is I still haven't found a solution to the Aptiva!
> Does anyone have any experience with this pc...and what I can do next?
> As you can see, I'll go to any extent to get this problem solved...  :)
>=20
>=20
> John K7FD and Annette (KC7U??)

>From jdowning at intelenet.net (John Downing)  Wed Feb 12 01:13:18 1997
From: jdowning at intelenet.net (John Downing) (John Downing)
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 17:13:18 -0800
Subject: Titanex Vertical Antennas
Message-ID: <01BC183E.ED0FB5C0 at downing-1.intelenet.net>

In response to the many who requested this information:

Several weeks ago I received a catalog from Titanex - in 
German.  Lucky thing my secretary is German and is 
excellent at technical translation!

So here's the deal.  Titanex makes a wide variety of antennas
including HF Yagis, Cubical Quads, Verticals, and HF log 
periodics.  All looked to be very well designed and made.  
For instance, they make a full size 3 element 40 yagi and
a 13 element 7-30 mhz log periodic.

There is no US distributor but they will ship from the factory
direct to the US.

The antenna that particularly interested me is the V 160 E,
which is a 26 meter high vertical for 160, 80, and 40.  It comes
with or without a 3KW remote antenna tuner.  The antenna is
very lightweight at 7.5 kg and is guyed at four heights. Guys
are included.  There is an expedition version (the V160 E) and
a non-portable version (the V160).  Principle difference is the
shipping length 3.1 meters for the E and 6.1 meters for the 
standard unit.  Unfortunately 3.1 meters is too long for me to
take to Ambergris Caye, Belize.  2 meters would work fine....
sigh.....

Pricing is high for this unit but pricing for their other antennas 
seems in line with the industry.  

Pricing to me - and this may be a special case - landed in 
Los Angeles, including air freight is $1366 without tuning
box, $1919 with the remote 3KW tuner - which you need for
160 meter operation.

Titanex can be reached at:

Titanex Antennentechnik
Burgstall
D-94339 Leiblfling
Germany

tel: 0 94 27 90 21 80
fax: 0 94 27 90 21 81

They were quick to respond to my query.

Good luck in the contests,

John W2NA / V31DX / 8P9IX