Mardy, Neil maybe right, try the common mode choke, also if you have a RF Field strength meter, make sure that there is no RF in the shack using the meter. Outside of that, trade the monitor to a friend for his with a normal push button power switch.
Last year there was another ham that had the same issue, I think that he finally traded it off. 73, Dudley WA5QPZ FlexRadio Systems (512) 250-8595, Option 2 Email: dud...@flexradio.com <dud...@flex-radio.com> Web: www.flexradio.com <http://www.flex-radio.com> "Tune in excitement!" ™ On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 9:21 PM, Mardy Eedson <meed...@cogeco.ca> wrote: > Greetings Flexers: > > I took delivery of my Flex 3000 last May, a week before Dayton. The radio > works very well using a dedicated "low cost" tower PC built and tuned by > Abroham Neal Software running Windows 7 Home Premium 32. However, when I > purchased a Samsung SyncMaster BX-2450 monitor for the station my troubles > began. > > That monitor has a touch switch in the corner of the screen for turning the > monitor on and off. I did not know about the touch switch when I chose the > monitor. Several years back, my son had a desk lamp with a touch switch and > my traditional radio used to play havoc with his desk lamp, turning it from > low to medium to high, and off again when I was transmitting. Now, with the > Flex 3000, the same thing is happening to my monitor. When I am > transmitting, RF from the antenna outside, randomly affects the touch switch > sometimes turning the monitor off and perhaps back on, and sometimes locking > the monitor off until I unplug the monitor's power supply and plug it back > in. I don't have to tell you what a total annoyance that is on a radio > completely controlled by the mouse. The radio continues to work with the > monitor off. You just can't make any changes or log a contact. > > In attempting to solve the problem, I have grounded all station equipment > and put ferrites on every cable. Fortunately, these measures have cut the > noise floor way down on receive, but they have done nothing to prevent the > monitor from going off during transmission. > > Short term, is there a keyboard shortcut to turn off the "Tune" function on > the Flex 3000 if the monitor goes off while I am tuning the antenna? This > happened the other day. I had to push the blue On/Off button cutting power > to the radio in order to stop it from transmitting a "Tune" signal. > > I am desperate for solution to this problem. In the event that the problem > is unsolvable, could someone recommend a more suitable monitor with a > physical on/off switch? > > Mardy Eedson, VE3QEE > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > _______________________________________________ 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/
