[Ham-Mac] iMac G5/SuperMouse RFI Problem

Bob Nielsen n7xy at clearwire.net
Thu May 29 22:05:58 EDT 2008


You might try moving the choke to where it plugs into the USB port.   
I have had better luck with keyboards this way.  The keyboard problem  
first surfaced just after getting a response from a new country for  
me on RTTY, of course.


On May 29, 2008, at 6:13 PM, Dan Romanchik KB6NU wrote:

> I have an iMac G5 whose SuperMouse is susceptible to RFI. Whenever  
> I transmit, the silly thing thinks I'm doing  a squeeze and doing  
> an Expose of all the windows. If I put a ferrite choke on it right  
> where the wire comes out of the mouse, I don't experience this  
> behavior, but that makes the mouse nearly unusable as it gets in  
> the way of the mouse operation.
>
> So, I'm just wondering if any of you may have experienced this.  
> Also, is there someone that I might contact at Apple about this?
>
> 73!
>
> Dan KB6NU
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