Please allow me to hijack this thread to ask about low power
draw computers for use with the K3.
Last field day I set up our club's digital station with a K3/10,
SignaLink USB, and a MacBook Pro. The combination worked very
well, but the MacBook Pro, connected through the Apple power
adapter and a Radio Shack inverter drew 3 to 4 times as much
power as all the rest of the system. I used the Elecraft USB
<--> RS232 cable for rig control.
So I am looking for a computer that runs on 12 volts and draws a
minimum amount of current. It should be low noise and all those
other good things as well. My OS preferences are in order: MacOS
-- because I know it, flavors of Linux -- so I won't have to
configure a Windows system and deal with Microsoft's license
verification, and finally Windows.
On the MacBook Pro I was running cocoaModem and RUMped. I expect
on other OSes I will run fldigi and a contest logger to be names later.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Cheers - Bill, AE6JV
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Bill Frantz |The nice thing about standards| Periwinkle
(408)356-8506 |is there are so many to choose| 16345
Englewood Ave
www.pwpconsult.com |from. - Andrew Tanenbaum | Los Gatos,
CA 95032
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