Yo! Alexander:
Thursday August 22 1996 19:25, Alexander Bilan wrote to Bill Cheek:
 >> WinRadio is very well shielded, as a matter of fact.  The actual radio
 >> section look a lot like a shielded compartment inside a base scanner.
 >> Except it's heavy.  Very heavy.  Like a tank.
 AB> Though, this leads me to ask, is your WinRadio supplied as an
 AB> evaluation peice, or is it off the store shelf? Brings to mind the
 AB> old days of muscle cars, where the testers got a factory tweaked and
 AB> tuned "off the assembly line" car.
Mine is an evaluation piece, but it is a lower quality than full production, 
if anything.  No, it is not "souped up".........
 >> Maybe.  But good coax, well shielded, is an answer.  Computers are
 >> networked
 AB> Speaking of which, I stumbled on a bit of a treasure at work while 
digging
 AB> through an old equipment storage area (deep dark dungeon of an old old
 AB> school) a 500' spool of RG-11... stranded center conductor, nice and
 AB> flexable, compared to the rg-11/u (solid core) that we used for CCTV in
 AB> the schools.
I suppose..........  :-/    RG-11 is pretty hard to work with, but can be 
fitted with a BNC better than RG-59 or RG-6.
 >> using either cheap coax or, of all things, unshielded twisted pair.
 >> There are many ways these days to resolve noise problems.....AT THE
 >> DESIGN LEVEL.
 AB> Our system networks (each school seems to be a separate look back in
 AB> the history of cabling techniques) From RG-59 to sheilded twisted pair
 AB> (gawd I hated that stuff) to RG-58, and now we're back to unshielded
 AB> twisted pair (cat5). And then theres all the VAX stuff thats just plain
 AB> twisted pair.
Twisted pair goes against my grain, and apparently yours, too.  There isn't 
much wrong with it, though, because it is a "balanced line" that is not 
really susceptible to noise pickup like people think.  I prefer coax and 
shielded conductors for everything, but TP ain't all that bad.
 AB> Back to the winradio... =)
 AB>   You also mentioned its like a tank, and heavy. How does the weight
 AB> affect its sitting in a case? I use a mini-tower, and all the cards hang
 AB> sideways. Would the winradio require me to rig up some sort of support 
for
 AB> the "hanging" corner of the card?
I had that same concern, but I hung mine in a tower case, and after it was 
screwed down, the sucker sits like a granite block.......solid.  I have no 
concerns about that any more.  A support is not required at all.
Bill Cheek | Internet: bcheek@cts.com | Compu$erve: 74107,1176
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