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Re: [CQ-Contest] Laptops for mobile....

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Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Laptops for mobile....
From: Igor Sokolov <ua9cdc@gmail.com>
Reply-to: ua9cdc@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 29 May 2021 02:37:09 +0500
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For mobile I use either Dell XPS13 or MacBook Air with Win 7 installed. Both have good batteries (Mac is better though) and give me almost 8 hours of operation with N1MM+. Then I make a break and charge batteries for the next session. Both are pretty RF quiet because both have Aluminum body.

There are laptops with 13V supply but the choice is very limited.

73,  Igor UA9CDC

29.05.2021 1:11, Jeff Clarke пишет:
Make sure you put torrid's on all the cabling from the computer to the radio. It can be challenging using a computer when you are rovering and the antenna is less than 5 feet away.

Jeff

On 5/28/2021 01:23 PM, Michael Dinkelman wrote:
This is about contesting...  mobile contesting

The laptop I use for mobile is nearing its end after about 10 years
of general use  and mobile. Now just mobile as I didn't care about
OS  (it's WIN8) as long as it ran N1MM+. But it has become
unreliable even after full factory resets.

My main laptop, a high powered workstation is great, but not so good for
mobile. It doesn't have a mobile supply for vehicle use and while I have tried quiet inverters, the real noise from battery charging seems to be internal  to
the laptop.

It would be good to find a reliable laptop that can run off vehicle power (even with a dedicated accessory supply). It doesn't need to be a workhorse and cheaper would be great. It just needs to run N1MM+ and not generate  RF on it's own. Unfortunately, cheaper may mean less RF suppression and susceptibility. I'd appreciate comments from folks who actually run laptops mobile. (I can look at specs all day on the web but that  doesn't tell you much until you turn it on in
a vehicle.)

cheers
dink, n7wa


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