[hpsdr] No smoke! (but distorted audio)

[Paul Beckmann]

Well, I jumped the Tortoise/svn, USBIO, and board power-up hurdles tonight
with Atlas, Ozy, and Mercury and actually heard WWV and some CW on 80
meters. Understand that I have the Atlas just sitting on a piece of paper
with the boards plugged in, an old Dell supply sitting right next to it, and
the board only grounded through the PS and the 3rd wire of the power cord.

What I did notice, however, was very distorted audio, scratchy. (Actually it
sounded a lot like a 10GHz rainscatter signal!) Is this to be expected with
the entire lack of shielding or would the gurus of the group expect
something isn't quite functioning properly? (I do have extensive static
control devices on the antenna and was careful to discharge potential static
on the P.S. chassis every time I wanted to plug something in.

Or did I just do something really stupid?

Best 73's!

--Paul, wa0rse

P.S. Windows XP likes you to "eject" Ozy before powering it off, just like
any other USB device! Duh!
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