[arm-allstar] Weard Windows 10

Terry Bethlehem kd4ont at gmail.com
Wed Aug 16 02:50:18 EST 2017


Yes, being very near to a pc, with a radio, can hammer the radio's front
end. Some pcs are worse than others. Getting the radio away, as much as
possible, helps a lot.

On Aug 16, 2017 3:47 AM, David McGough via arm-allstar <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
>
> Well, Win10 itself obviously won't generate RFI.  However, there are
> possible situations where a PC can generate nasty RFI due to how the OS is
> utilizing the hardware. One scenario is where you have a RFI noisy video
> card in the PC.  I know of an installation many years ago where "upgraded"
> computers partly knocked a municipal airport's communications off the air
> due to crazy noise from the VGA video cards! As part of the upgrade, the
> video cards got switched to a higher resolution, generating VHF spurs in a
> very bad spot!
>
> So, check all the peripherals plugged into the PC as a first step. And,
> check the PC power supply, etc.
>
>
> 73, David KB4FXC
>
>
>
> On Wed, 16 Aug 2017, "Chris Viningre via arm-allstar" wrote:
>
> > We experienced a weird issue yesterday that I'm hoping someone could
> share
> > some light on. I was helping a friend set up Supermon on his node.I was
> > showing him the features. When I was showing him lsnode and had him login
> > on 27225 so he would be able to see the list of nodes.Thats when all hell
> > broke loose. I heard a delay on login into the node on his radio. I then
> > heard the dubble beep over and over. I knew something was going wrong. As
> > he was shutting down the windows computer and I was going to shutdown the
> > node radio and pi3, I saw a fluxurating signal on the operating radio as
> > well as a green light receive signal on the node radio, a 888. When
> windows
> > was off there were no signal on either radio other then Doug seeing the
> > problem was from us. Sorry Doug. My friend ran Linux on the same computer
> > and it gave us no problems. My question is. Does anyone know of Windows
> > emitting RFI on UHF that's capable of a 107.2 hz pl tone?
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