Seriously consider getting some of the 31 mix snap ons. jim ab3cv
On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 5:33 PM, Mike K2MK <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Mike, > > I think multiple ferrites will help but you might be surprised to find that > it works best when applied to a cable you haven't yet tried. Take off all > of > the clamp-ons and get things set up to reliably cause RFI. Then put 4 or 5 > clamp-ons on one cable at a time. Try this on every cable in and out of > your > equipment. Such as the DC cable from your power supply to the K3. Then move > onto the various PC cables. > > One of those cables is bound to show a reduction in RFI. When that happens > just keep loading on the ferrites. For serious RFI one or two ferrites on a > cable is never enough. > > 73, > Mike K2MK > > > mike wrote > > When using KPA500 my external monitor (and the P3 display) often freezes, > > sometimes up to 5 seconds, after I transmit. With the external display > > disabled, the P3 does not freeze (and incidentally it refreshes much > > faster without the ext monitor enabled.) I also notice a slight > flickering > > of the monitor screen while transmitting. I take this to be a RFI > problem. > > I have added four snap on ferrite beads on each end of the VGA cable. The > > monitor is as far away from the amp and feedlines as I can get it and all > > equipment K3, P3, KPA500, KAT500 are bonded to a ground bus. This is not > > unique to this monitor as it happened with a different smaller monitor I > > used before. > > > > This has always been a problem, and I would like to eliminate it as it is > > very disruptive to is usefulness in finding a clear spot to break through > > a pileup. Not sure what else to do. Has anyone else had this issue? > > > > ..mike AI6II > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/P3-SVGA-external-monitor-freezes-RFI-tp7594411p7594420.html > Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 > Message delivered to [email protected] > > ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [email protected]
