RFI and laptops 04/22/22
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So,  I've been  using  the old  Lenovo  T410 as  my  ham radio  laptop
recently. It works great.  But the other day I was  gifted a T440p, i7
with 16g of ram and a 500g SSD. Upgrade! Or so I thought...

Turns out,  the T440p  can't keep  the RF  interference out.  With the
T410, I can do what I need to  in JS8Call or Winlink, but the moment I
set the T440p  in the exact same location, and  attempt the exact same
things, CAT control cuts  out from RFI. I have to drop  way down to 5w
to get a transmission out, and even then it's questionable.

I guess not all  things are equal here. And not  all things are better
inside the T440p vs. the T410.

Time to approach the wife and ask her if she'd prefer the T440p to her
old aluminum-cased Macbook Air. Much larger drive, more ram, and she's
already on Linux anyway! I have this  idea in my head that the macbook
will resist the RFI more readily...