[CQ-Contest] Contesting Computer

[Tom Osborne]

Hans said:

> My old 1900's model WIN98 Compaq 345MHz/128Meg ram >is getting a
little short of horsepower for many applications, >and it's probably
time to upgrade.

Hi Hans et al

One thing for sure, take a little portable AM receiver or better yet,
a shortwave receiver and listen for birdies.  I have one computer here
that I though was a great deal, but it is nothing but a wide band
noise generator.  I can pull up in the driveway and hear it screaming
in my AM radio in the car half a block away.  It don't matter how good
of a deal you get if it's useless.  I use my old 125mhz pentium for
all my ham software.  It's super quiet.  I even run some dos software
on my old '386 DX40.  Seems like the manufactureres aren't paying much
attention to "FCC specifications" any more.  New computers are a lot
noiser than the older ones.  73
Tom W7WHY