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Those of you who are regular blog readers know I have had my fair share of RFI that has affected my PC, washing machine, headphones and key. I have been doing some reading that all ferrites are not alike. Yes, they may be a mix 31 but there are good and very good ferrites on the market. I looked around at the popular dealers that dealt with chokes both beads, snap on and rings. I have read many good reviews on the Fair-Rite brand of ferrites. There were two electronic dealers I have dealt with in the past Mouser and Digikey. Mouser was where I ended up as I had ordered from them and was very happy.  I found the Fair-rite snap-on chokes I wanted and ordered them along with one Fair-rite round ring ferrite. These items shipped the same day and were at my door in no time. My mission with the new ferrites was to solve my PC  issue. When operating N1MM+ contesting program now and then (mostly at the most inconvenient of times) the Windows hourglass would pop up on my screen. For anywhere from 4 seconds to 20 seconds I was not able to transmit using any of N1MM+ macros. Not good when a station is waiting for a contest reply from me. The other thing that happened again in  N1MM+ the log window would just go black. The only way to solve this issue was to restart the program.
I have an idea what the issue may be and I want to see if this Fair-Rite product is truly a quality product or not. More on that in the next post.