[RTTY] Re: Help with keeping RF out of PC (Peter Laws)

[Peter Laws]

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Ian White, G3SEK wrote:

> And of course you can't use SYSPREP if the motherboard just died on 
> you... so the best practical way may be to reinstall. It's said to be 
> good for the soul.

As long as you install GNU/Linux ...  :-)

No XP here, thanks.  W98SE works just fine for the apps I need (MMTTY, 
N1MM, ARC250/ARC780, ADMS, Garmin).  For day to day use, I much prefer 
GNU/Linux (just put SuSE 9.2 on the "other" radio room PC last night).

What I think I need to do is some regular ragchewing on RTTY and see if 
MMTTY alone is similarly afflicted.  That would eliminate N1MM as a 
variable (they're a pretty reliable combo, but they don't *always* play 
nice together).

If it persists, I'll be sure to pay closer attention and try to note the 
sequence of events.  I did at least jot down some freqs where it happened, 
but the 5 or 6 samples I ended up with didn't show much of a pattern (I 
had several more before I realized that this was a trend and not an 
anomaly).

I'm really leaning towards RF being the issue and since the only things 
that really changed are 1) a new mobo and 2) a tidying of the cables, it 
makes sense to start there.  But I need more data first.

-- 
73,
Peter Laws  
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