I don't have any problems with RFI and my K3/Mac at all and I do have some RF in my shack. I do use a microHam DigiKeyer. But I would have thought any opto coupled connection and audio transformer isolated connections would be fine. 73 de M0XDF, K3 #174 -- A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason. -Thomas Carlyle, historian and essayist (1795-1881)
On 9 Apr 2010, at 13:46, 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. > ______________________________________________________________ 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
