[Elecraft] Prolific drivers and Mac OS

[David Ferrington, M0XDF]

I don't have any problems with RFI and my K3/Mac at all and I do have some RF in my shack.
I do use a microHam DigiKeyer. But I would have thought any opto coupled connection and audio transformer isolated connections would be fine.
73 de M0XDF, K3 #174
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On 9 Apr 2010, at 13:46, 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.
>