Thanks, George, for sending your list. I'm working #1 now which seems to be helping greatly. Next on the list is establishing a much better earth ground connection. Right now my choices are not so good... Whatever I have at the power outlets, a incoming copper water pipe about 25' away from my rig, and an outgoing galvanized sewer pipe about 8' away from my station (all in the basement, of course). - Russ, KF1K
On 10/30/10 4:33 PM, "George Works" <wor...@hughes.net> wrote: > Russ, > I had problems like this a while back with my Flex-3000. I did four > things, and now I don't have the problem. I couldn't say which of these > mattered most. > 1) I put many ferrite beads on my LMR-400 feedline. > 2) I ran a heavy 4" copper strap through my shack and connected every > rig, computer, tuner, power supply, router, etc. to it with a short > length of braid. I also tied the strap to a good outside ground. > 3) I put ferrite beads on the Firewire cable and on every coax in the > shack at each end > 4) I brought my feedlines in through feed-through connectors (lightning > protectors) grounded in an entry plate, which is connected to my station > ground. > > Also, in my case, my antennas are all far away so my shack is not in the > near field of the antennas. This took a long time and a lot of work, but > now I have three stations running 7x24, two of them on Flexes, and > nothing crashes or hangs up. > > George, PJ5/KJ6VW > > On 10/30/2010 15:00, Russell Magnuson wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> I have been fighting a problem with my Flex-3000 setup (or one that it is a >> victim of) which I believe... is related to RF getting back into it and >> freezing it up ... >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Russ, KF1K > _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/
