The SignaLink USB and snap chokes

     I learned something today.  I had been having trouble with vertical lines on my waterfall display on my digital program MixW, which I thought were caused from computer noise.  I put 2 rather hefty snap chokes on the Radio line and the USB line going into the SignaLink.  This caused another problem.  Whenever I would transmit, the Delay function would click my signal out, causing gaps in my tansmitted text.  I found that I had to remove those snap chokes and the delay clicking went away.  Also, on closer examination, I found that one of my cables for the computer speakers was in the wrong port.  The vertical lines went away.