Don't be too quick to give up on the idea of solid state drives, Greg. I know several active hams who have had these installed for some time without any of the problems you experienced. There's no logical reason why these drives should be any more or less noisy than any other memory in your computer.
I would check your power supply, in case the line filtering components were left out to save money, and if so, get yourself an inexpensive Corcom line filter. Try disconnecting keyboard, mouse and monitor cables one at a time to see if the noise is getting out that way. Try grounding the case of your computer to the same single point ground as your transceiver, also making sure that the ground bus of your motherboard makes good electrical contact to the case. In five years or less, I suspect you will not be able to find a computer *without* an SSD. 73, Pete N4ZR The World Contest Station Database, at www.conteststations.com The Reverse Beacon Network at http://reversebeacon.net, blog at reversebeacon.blogspot.com, spots at telnet.reversebeacon.net, port 7000 and arcluster.reversebeacon.net, port 7000 On 6/26/2012 6:36 AM, Greg Chartrand wrote: > Last month I began a computer up-grade process at home and work by using > solid state drives (SSD) in both laptop and desktop systems. The upgrades > have been very successful providing a significant performance increase and > extended battery life. > The last upgrade was my ham shack desktop system that I rebuilt with a new > copy of Windows 7. All seemed well until I turned the rig on and heard > garbage and multiple birdies across the lower 50 khz on 160. > I was distracted for a week trying to recover a lost disk but I put the SSD > in place again yesterday. This time I wrapped the SSD in aluminium foil and > put 2 clamp on cores on the SATA cable. I fired up my system, and the extra > measures had no noticeable improvement on the birdie situation. The > birdies appear as soon as I power up the drive. > I doubt if I will be able to remove the noise so this is a warning to those > who may consider the same upgrade to their hamshack computer. My computer > with the old fashion Hitachi hard drive contributes zero noise to my > receiving capability on any band so SSD's are not in my future! > Greg > > --------------------------------------------------------- > > Greg Chartrand - W7MY > > Richland, WA. > > DN-06IF > > > > W7MY Home Page: > > http://webpages.charter.net/w7my/ > _______________________________________________ > UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK > _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
