[Ham-Mac] mac crash on transmit culprit found.. thanks for advice!

[Walter O'Brien/W2WJO]

Thanks to everyone here on this list for advice to my 
crashing/sleeping/restarting Mac whenever I key my 897 transmitter. I 
will be trying the line isolator/rfi choke suggestions also to keep the 
stray rf down where the problem starts...

but for anyone else having similar problems - the culprit(s) are the 
touch "proximity" switches on the 15" studio display flat panel LCD. 
Apple confirms, the RF can trigger them. Which explains why sometimes 
the brightness preference pane comes up, and sometimes the power cuts 
out or sleeps or restarts - those are the 2 buttons on the flat panel.

Now, turns out these buttons CAN be disabled in software... but only 
the 17" and bigger LCD's, not my 15" LCD. I'm using my Titanium laptop 
G4 for my ham radio needs now, it doesn't crash on transmit!

Thanks for everyone's advice.

73, Walter W2WJO
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