[WriteLog] RF from your Computer Monitor..

[Jerry Flanders]

I don't have any monitor recommendations, but if you just want to reduce 
the noise, do this test: Cap and shield the receiver's antenna connection 
and see if the noise goes away (connecting to a shielded dummy load with 
good coax should work for this test). If the noise goes away, just find out 
exactly where it is getting into the antenna line and work on that. Years 
ago I had noise, found out I had a leaky antenna tuner. I dumped that tuner 
and used good shielded unbroken coax between the shack and antenna - 
problem solved.

Jerry W4UK

At 23:27 1/20/03 -0700, you wrote:
>Hello Gang,
>         I am sure I can't be the only one who has RF from his computer 
> monitor
>getting into his rig on receive.  At times the sigs are so bad it becomes
>white noise all across a band with BIG birdies intermixed.  40CW is probably
>the worst band for me.  Have anyone of you come up with a monitor that is RF
>QUIET?  I now use a laptop that is almost silent but I miss the larger
>display and ability to separate the monitor section from the rest of the
>computer. My computer is now almost silent (Dell 420 workstation) but the
>monitor is still a broadband sig generator.  Any suggestions?  Any one using
>the newer "flat panel" displays? and how are they for noise.
>
>Mike Baker  K7DD
>k7ddmjb@qwest.net