[Elecraft] Prolific drivers and Mac OS

[K6LE]

Wow!  what Mac are you using?

I have my iMac (2008 2.8 GHz C2D )  sitting next to my K3 and it is on all the time.  

The only noises in the radio that I have experienced are:

A slight hum in the Line In - probably caused by them not being on the same plug and/or not bonded together.  Solved it with one of the audio isolators that Radio Shack sells for about $15.  Will work on the grounding later.

I get birdies from the ethernet cable - solved by disconnecting it and using Wi-Fi.

I hear some nasty birdies from my networked laser printer - I just turn it off when not using it.

Other than those solved problems I don't have any interference between the Mac and the K3.

I don't know how I could operate "computerless" these days!

Rick
K6LE

On 4/9/2010, at 5:46 , lstavenhagen wrote:

> 
> Well, for what it's worth, I'm still trying to get over my prejudice that
> computers and HF rigs don't mix but that's going with extreme difficulty
> recently hi hi. I've been experimenting with grounding schemes, chokes and
> so on with exasperating results with my macs and the K3. At this point,
> totally ironically, the only thing useful involving a wire between the
> computer and the rig has been my USB->RS-232 adapter to run the K3 utility.
> Everything else involves too much RFI to be able to use the rig/computer for
> any intended purpose and the cables always seem to hop back out of the rig
> and back into the storage boxes.
> Maybe a Faraday cage around the computer would be the next thing to try.
> Moving to a location where I can put up a real antenna a long ways from the
> rig would probably help too, but that's impractical right now hi hi.
> 
> So I've about thrown in the towel on this (again) hi hi and am about to
> surrender and just go back to computerless HF ops. The K3's built-in
> PSK/RTTY decoder/encoder works surprisingly well now that I'm learning how
> to use it and I need to practice my CW sending anyway.
> 
> As for the prolific drivers on MacOS X, the 32 bit releases work great with
> no problems using my Bill-n-Ted's Excellent adapter from BestBuy. I havn't
> worked on the apparent problem with the recent 64 bit version, tho, because
> the 32 versions already work fine. And the error messages I get when trying
> to load it suggest it's a perms thing and not a problem with the driver
> itself.
> 
> PS, I did try this with the non-commercial version of MacLoggerDX and
> everything I tried out with it also worked perfectly with no problems. I
> just couldn't hear any signals because of the noise hi hi.
> 
> 73,
> LS
> W5QD