Wow! what Mac are you using? I have my iMac (2008 2.8 GHz C2D ) sitting next to my K3 and it is on all the time.
The only noises in the radio that I have experienced are: A slight hum in the Line In - probably caused by them not being on the same plug and/or not bonded together. Solved it with one of the audio isolators that Radio Shack sells for about $15. Will work on the grounding later. I get birdies from the ethernet cable - solved by disconnecting it and using Wi-Fi. I hear some nasty birdies from my networked laser printer - I just turn it off when not using it. Other than those solved problems I don't have any interference between the Mac and the K3. I don't know how I could operate "computerless" these days! Rick K6LE On 4/9/2010, at 5:46 , lstavenhagen wrote: > > Well, for what it's worth, I'm still trying to get over my prejudice that > computers and HF rigs don't mix but that's going with extreme difficulty > recently hi hi. I've been experimenting with grounding schemes, chokes and > so on with exasperating results with my macs and the K3. At this point, > totally ironically, the only thing useful involving a wire between the > computer and the rig has been my USB->RS-232 adapter to run the K3 utility. > Everything else involves too much RFI to be able to use the rig/computer for > any intended purpose and the cables always seem to hop back out of the rig > and back into the storage boxes. > Maybe a Faraday cage around the computer would be the next thing to try. > Moving to a location where I can put up a real antenna a long ways from the > rig would probably help too, but that's impractical right now hi hi. > > So I've about thrown in the towel on this (again) hi hi and am about to > surrender and just go back to computerless HF ops. The K3's built-in > PSK/RTTY decoder/encoder works surprisingly well now that I'm learning how > to use it and I need to practice my CW sending anyway. > > As for the prolific drivers on MacOS X, the 32 bit releases work great with > no problems using my Bill-n-Ted's Excellent adapter from BestBuy. I havn't > worked on the apparent problem with the recent 64 bit version, tho, because > the 32 versions already work fine. And the error messages I get when trying > to load it suggest it's a perms thing and not a problem with the driver > itself. > > PS, I did try this with the non-commercial version of MacLoggerDX and > everything I tried out with it also worked perfectly with no problems. I > just couldn't hear any signals because of the noise hi hi. > > 73, > LS > W5QD ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
