[RFI] Sudden Computer Racket

[Pete Smith]

Well, Jim wins the prize - it was the sound card, even with no cables 
attached.  Fortunately, it wasn't very expensive, so in the wastebasket 
it goes.  Thanks, everyone.

73, Pete N4ZR

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On 6/25/2010 11:34 AM, Jim Brown wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 07:31:13 -0400, Pete Smith wrote:
>
>    
>> Looking with a spectrum analyzer program and a
>> broadband SDR, I can see that the noise consists of peaks at 48-KHz
>> intervals,
>>      
> That does sound like the sound card is misbehaving and creating that noise.
> 48kHz is probably the sampling rate. Are there any cables connected to it
> (like audio ins and outs)?  Try removing them and see if the noise goes away.
> If it does, chokes could kill the noise.
>
> 73, Jim Brown K9YC
>
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