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Re: [Flexradio] First qso

Neal Campbell
Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:21:02 -0800

Yes, fans fail. Remember that inside of a computer is a pretty nasty and hot
environment. I haven't had a lot of them fail but I have seen it from time
to time.

Neal Campbell
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On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 6:48 PM, <kd0...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> My new F3K mysteriously came back to "life" after sitting overnight,
> no changes to the configuration.  Hopefully that's just a fluke, I'd
> hate to have to turn it off overnight on a contest weekend to get it
> going again.
>
> So today I made my first couple of PSK QSOs with it, and everything
> worked very well.
>
> But- Have you ever heard a failing computer case fan?  Particularly
> the type with bushings not ball bearings.  When it gets warm from
> transmitting, it emits a sound just like that!  Do all of them raise a
> strange fan ruckus or should I be concerned that I might have a bad
> one?
>
> 73,
> Matt
> ai1p
>
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