Saturday, September 10, 2011

Bit of a Tidyup to get ready for some winter DXing

Just starting to get the shack/antennas back into shape for the winter months to give HF a good bash and try to improve my totals.

I have been using a Signalink SL1+ for the last 5 years and it has allways worked FB, lately I have been suffering from terrible RF in my soundcard while running RTTY, the Soundcard would shutdown and I would have to reboot the PC, I have chokes everywhere and nothing was working.

So I decided to bite the bullet and go for a Rig Expert Standard interface which has a built in soundcard.

I got it from MixW and great service it was from them, http://www.mixw.co.uk

anyway when it landed I decided to remove all the leads I had in play to connect my PC to the Rig

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I could nearly weight that lot in and get the price of the interface back

It was 5 minutes work setting it up and has tidyed the nest of wires around the back of the desk greatly.

all I have to do now is wait for this storm to pass and get my HF Antennas up and get ready for 4W6A/T32C/3D2R and the CQ WW RTTY contest at the end of the month.

Trevor
EI2GLB

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