Hi, I use a cheap USB to serial dongle to connect my Eee netbook (running Linux) to the K3, but I have a couple of issues with it, and I would like to solicit suggestions to sort it out.
On 10/12/15m and if the bands are relatively quiet, I get bursts of S1-S2 static when the PC is talking to the K3, this happens at any baud rate (at least down to 4800, haven't tried going lower than that). The problem gets massively worse, S4-S5, if the netbook's power supply is plugged in, but it's still discernible even without it unless the bands are noisy. I haven't heard it on 20m and below, but it could just be because of higher QRN blanking it out. The other problem is that the serial dongle resets itself when I transmit on 40m, this doesn't happen on any of the other bands but almost invariably when I tx on 40m at anything more than 25-30W, even just sending a long dah. I guess both of these problems could be down to bad/no screening of the little chip in the dongle, I tried enclosing it and the cable in kitchen foil but with no discernible difference. Any suggestions, or should I just get a better dongle and cross my fingers? 73, Thomas M0TRN ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
