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Re: [RFI] RF getting into 4-port wirelss router.

To: kgordon2006@frontier.com, RfI@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [RFI] RF getting into 4-port wirelss router.
From: Pat <wa4tuk-rf@comcast.net>
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 23:13:43 -0500
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You could go all or mostly wireless. Use a wireless bridge to replace the run of CAT-5 to the shack and plug the dumb hub into that so that there are no long Ethernet runs.

Pat
wa4tuk


On 1/11/2015 10:57 PM, Kenneth G. Gordon wrote:
OK, gang, I need some different help here.

I have a 4 port wireless router (Trendnet TEW-812DRU at the moment)
connected to our main computer and two others in the home, not including
the laptops that connect to it periodically.

I have replaced the router at least 4 times over the past year or two due to
the fact that RF from my ham station is getting into it through one or more of
the three CAT-5 cables I have connected to it.

I have installed several of those snap-on filters on all three of the CAT-5
cables which connect to it, and also on both ends of the DC power cable,
making seveal "loops" through each filter.

I still wipe out the router every time I get on the air. I have destroyed one
$169.00 router, and two less expensive ones, a TPNET and a Cisco.

The only solution I have come up with is to disconnect the CAT-5 cables (all
three of them) from the router each time I get on the air.

Has anyone here had a similar problem, and if so, what did you do to fix it?

BTW, one of my CAT-5 cables runs to the ham shack, where it connects to a
dumb 4 port switch...

This has become a giant PITA.

Any ideas?

Kenneth G. Gordon W7EKB

"Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway."--- John   Wayne

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