Wireless seems the only way to go with the small lot and everything being
too darn close here. Cat5 made an excellent antenna here. Now when the kids
come from out of state with their laptops, they can sit out in the front
room and not string Cat5 up and down the hallway like they used to.
Best of luck to all...
73, Mike K9MI
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve London" <n2icarrl@gmail.com>
To: "John Geiger" <n5ten@yahoo.com>
Cc: <ft100@yahoogroups.com>; <yaesu@contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 00:20
Subject: Re: [Yaesu] RFI router issue resolved!
> Why not just go wireless and get rid of all the CAT5 cables ?
>
> As I unfortunately found out last summer, the CAT5 cables interconnecting
> all
> the boxes also provide another path for lightning-induced surges to be
> propagated.
>
> 73,
> Steve, N2IC
>
> John Geiger wrote:
>> For those who may be having the same problem, I did
>> resolve my RFI and router problem to the point where
>> both the router and my Yaesu FT100D could co-exist.
>> There are a couple of minor birdies now, but I can
>> live with them. First, to answer a few issues that
>> were brought up before:
>>
>> 1. It wasn't the wallwart. I have a Lanpro ethernet
>> hub which is RF quiet, and I would use the wallwart
>> from it on the various routers I tried, and the
>> birdies were still there.
>>
>> 2. I was using shielded CAT5 cables. They were
>> radiating the interfering signal, though, as when I
>> disconnected them from the router, the birdies
>> disappeared.
>>
>> 3. I tried a couple of chokes on the CAT cable with no
>> luck.
>>
>> So here was my solution-I could only get 2 IP
>> addresses through the cable company here, so running
>> all 3 computers through the ethernet hub didn't work.
>> However, the router gets its own IP address, and then
>> it will assign its own addresses to the computers
>> connected to it. I connected the router (Net Gear
>> brand) to the cable modem, and connected the computer
>> next to it directly to the router. Its cable was
>> short enough to not cause problems. I then connected
>> the 2 long CAT5 runs to the ethernet hub, and then
>> connected the hub to another port on the router. The
>> isolation with the hub in line was enough to kill all
>> of the birdies except for 1 or 2 which were reduced
>> enough to live with using a notch filter (thank God
>> the autonotch on the FT100D works on CW, but a manual
>> notch is always better).
>>
>> Now all computers are connected to the internet, the
>> cable company is happy, the radio is happy, and most
>> of all, AA5JG is happy!
>>
>> 73s John AA5JG
>>
>>
>>
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