[CQ-Contest] Laptops for mobile....

[Jeff Clarke]

Make sure you put torrid's on all the cabling from the computer to the 
radio. It can be challenging using a computer when you are rovering and 
the antenna is less than 5 feet away.

Jeff

On 5/28/2021 01:23 PM, Michael Dinkelman wrote:
> This is about contesting...  mobile contesting
>
> The laptop I use for mobile is nearing its end after about 10 years
> of general use  and mobile. Now just mobile as I didn't care about
> OS  (it's WIN8) as long as it ran N1MM+. But it has become
> unreliable even after full factory resets.
>
> My main laptop, a high powered workstation is great, but not so good for
> mobile. It doesn't have a mobile supply for vehicle use and while I 
> have tried
> quiet inverters, the real noise from battery charging seems to be 
> internal  to
> the laptop.
>
> It would be good to find a reliable laptop that can run off vehicle 
> power (even with a dedicated
> accessory supply). It doesn't need to be a workhorse and cheaper would 
> be great. It just
> needs to run N1MM+ and not generate  RF on it's own. Unfortunately, 
> cheaper may mean less
> RF suppression and susceptibility. I'd appreciate comments from folks 
> who actually run laptops mobile.
> (I can look at specs all day on the web but that  doesn't tell you 
> much until you turn it on in
> a vehicle.)
>
> cheers
> dink, n7wa
>
>
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