[hpsdr] Power Supply test

Orval Chadsey n6ozi at earthlink.net
Sat May 26 23:15:17 PDT 2007


On Sat, 2007-05-26 at 22:18 -0700, Alfred Green wrote:
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> stoskopf at tri.net wrote:
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> >Deciding that to plant a $5 tree, you should dig a $10 hole, I ran thru
> >some computer magazine reviews of ATX supplies and settled on the
> >Turbo-Cool 510 ATX for the $200 range.  
> >
> Perhaps I am missing something here, but why even bother with 
> switch-mode PC supplies? The power requirements are very modest, and a 
> simple and clean analog supply can be built for a fraction of that 
> price, and it would be quite a bit smaller. That's what I am using.
> 
> 73  Alf  NU8I
> Scottsdale  AZ  DM43an


I agree completely! An analog supply is RF free, simple to build and
reliable. There will be no RF interference to affect MDS.

Orval N6OZI
San Francisco, CA, USA


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