Yo! Rick:
Thursday August 22 1996 22:40, Rick Moore wrote to Bill Cheek:
 BC>> For those not in the know.....WinRadio is a world-class, all-band
 BC>> receiver that plugs into an AT-slot in your PC and is fully
 BC>> controlled by the computer and the provided software.
 RM> Inside a PC case is about the stupidest place to stick a wideband
 RM> reciever I can think of.  PC's put out a LOT of EF noise, most of it
 RM> hopefully shielded from the outside world by your case.  This device
 RM> does not sound like a sensible purchase.
Key words there:  "does not sound like".  A hundred years ago, a lot of 
statements like that were said that proved to be silly today.
For one, this matter of EMI and RFI relative to computers is blown out of 
proportion to a great extent.  Granted, some systems leak RF worse than a 
50-kW broadcast transmitter.  Most do not.  Especially modern ones.
Fer instance, snooping around with an RF detector probe in my computers shows 
only a slight increase of noise over ambient out in the front yard.  Very 
slight.  Monitors are worse than computers for RFI, but even there, the 
modern versions are pretty good, with shielded coatings inside the cases and 
ferrite chokes in the video cables.
In a word, WinRadio is solidly shielded and the bus power lines are bypassed 
and filtered very well.  I have not established computer generated RFI to be 
an issue with WinRadio.  There is some noise, all right, but generally 
speaking, equal to or less than my stand-alone shortwave and scanner radios.
As a matter of fact, I am leaning more on WinRadio now as my preferred 
shortwave receiver over my time-honored Yaesu FRG-7700.

Full report coming soon.
Bill Cheek | Internet: bcheek@cts.com | Compu$erve: 74107,1176
Windows 95 Juggernaut Team | Microsoft MVP
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