[TenTec] Interfacing Computers to Rigs

[Richards]

I understand and appreciate your angst... but if I understand Jim's 
position correctly, he advocates rooting out the cause of the problem, 
rather than putting a bandage on it - even if the bandage is cheaper and 
seems to get the job done.

As an analogy... and please forgive me if I miss the mark... my road to 
Heck is well paved with all my good intentions...   but by analogy, you 
can sometimes put a few ferrite beads on a cable and it seems to kill a 
problem of RF in the shack, ... but it is not as good a solution as 
rooting out the cause of the RF, (e.g., a faulty X or poorly grounded Y, 
or something else you could fix).   I think it is usually best to cure 
the cause of the stray RF than to just put a ferrite bead over a cable 
to mask its presence.

Thus... I think Jim is advocating one try to eliminate the problem, such 
as the old "pin-1" problem - than to mask it with something  (perhaps an 
isolation transformer.)    Not that you cannot avoid the effects of a 
problem that way... but it may be better to eliminate the cause, than to 
devise an effective mask.

Anyway... I think that is the ideal.   Any traction ?    ;-)

Happy days to y'all.   ===================  Richard -K8JHR  =========



On 10/30/2011 1:56 PM, Casey wrote:

> My point is this: Jim wants people to stop using isolation circuits and
> his "carrot" to them is simply to tell them to do it the "right way" and
> the right way is to go study 66+ pages of technical material and to sort
> it all out for yourself.
>
> I really can't understand Jim's expectations when the alternative for
> hams without an EE is to simply spend some money for the gizmo that
> provides some kind of solution. It's not very helpful or understanding
> of those hams who are not EEs to just throw a link at them. Being right
> doesn't necessarily mean anyone is going to listen to you.

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