[TenTec] Audio Hum on Omni-VII
Jim Brown K9YC
k9yc at audiosystemsgroup.com
Thu Sep 18 11:56:27 EDT 2008
On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 22:32:00 -0500, Dudley Hurry wrote:
>You have a ground loop to the laptop.. I bet that you will lose the hum
>if you break the ground from the radio to/from the laptop sound card..
>Better isolation from the radio to the sound card.
>You might even try an extra ground from the laptop to station ground,
>but it is most likely a audio loop, isolation transformers should take
>care of it..
I'm an audio systems design consultant and consultant on EMC in audio
systems (that is, hum, buzz, and RFI). There is much misunderstanding
about the unbalanced interconnection of ham gear. Much of what is written
about it is WRONG, including in some ARRL publications. You do NOT need
"isolation," you need simple BONDING between the laptop and the radio.
To see what's REALLY going on with your hum and buzz, and to fix your
problems without a transformer and using nothing more than plain ordinary
copper wire, see
http://audiosystemsgroup.com/HamInterfacing.pdf
and the Chapter on Solving Problems in the Shack in
http://audiosystemsgroup.com/RFI-Ham.pdf
73,
Jim Brown K9YC
Audio Systems Group, Inc.
Chair -- AES Technical Committee on EMC
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