[Ham-Mac] Mac crashes on transmit or tune... any ideas?

Mon, 10 Nov 2003 16:02:01 -0600

On Monday, Nov 10, 2003, at 08:58 US/Central, Walter O'Brien/W2WJO 
wrote:

> My Power Mac G4 (quicksilver?) tower goes into sleep, or shuts down, 
> or restarts nearly every time I transmit on my Yaesu FT-897. For that 
> matter, even when I hit tune on the AT-897 tuner in full power the 
> first seconds of High VSWR can blow out the mac.
>
>
> Is this a normal happening with an 897 and a computer? Any suggestion 
> or ideas on shielding the Mac, or any other solution at all?
>

I know this isn't any help, but you are not alone.  The Quicksilver G4 
here does the same thing.  Very sensitive to one rig (TS-940) on 40 
meters even if power is set to less than 20 watts.  Sometimes also 
sensitive to another rig (TS-690) running on 20 meters if the power is 
set higher than 50 watts.

Will actually boot the machine if off so normally unplug it.

All using coax fed antennas.

Have had the feeling that it has something to do with the flat panel 
monitor.
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