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

[Igor Sokolov]

For mobile I use either Dell XPS13 or MacBook Air with Win 7 installed. 
Both have good batteries (Mac is better though) and give me almost 8 
hours of operation with N1MM+. Then I make a break and charge batteries 
for the next session. Both are pretty RF quiet because both have 
Aluminum body.

There are laptops with 13V supply but the choice is very limited.

73,  Igor UA9CDC

29.05.2021 1:11, Jeff Clarke пишет:
> 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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