Kenwood TR-7950 Crashing Computer?

[Robert L Cochran <cochranb@speakeasy.net>]

Hi,

Last week, after transmitting several times on a Kenwood TR-7950
connected to my KPC-3 Plus and my (practically brand new) computer, my
Red Hat Linux installation simply froze and crashed on me. The hard
drive developed all sorts of never before seen (to me at least!) bad
blocks and inode issues which e2fsck couldn't cure. I was left realizing
I had no choice but to reinstall Red Hat 8. I was getting issues like
the 'diff' program suddenly becoming a symlink pointing at 'cut'.

Although an friend of mine thinks it is not possible, I'm wondering if
transmitting with this model of Kenwood (which is about 20 years old, I
would say) only about 1 foot from my computer and 3 feet from the
antenna, caused the system to crash? Perhaps the antenna is simply too
close to the computer? It is an MFJ mag-mount antenna. I didn't do very
much transmitting at all, I was trying to connect to a friend's packet
radio rig about 10 miles away on 145.010 and according to him we were
connected only once and it timed out.

73,

Bob Cochran
KB3JCM