RFI
[Top] [All Lists]

[RFI] Noisy routers

To: rfi@contesting.com
Subject: [RFI] Noisy routers
From: Nathaniel Lee <n1bnc@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 13:31:06 -0800 (PST)
List-post: <rfi@contesting.com">mailto:rfi@contesting.com>
Hi All,

Earlier this year, mulling through the archives, there was a bit of talk about 
noisy routers. There was not a hefty solutions to be found without turning the 
earth upside down. 

I have a lynksis WRT54g that is quite noisy on HF. I now have it in a large 
metal cookie box with holes for ventilation and assorted plumbing.  I also made 
two holes for the antennae for the wifi side. I also have a ferrite bead on the 
power supply line, and toroids on the incoming and outgoing wires. The toroids 
are ones bought from radio shack and are rectangular and break in the middle. 
The ugly signals are now down to s6 on 20meters.  I am using the regular blue 
cat5 cabling for two desktops. What else can one do?

Until it improves, the HF antenna is a 75m GP about 20' in the air and about 
25' away from the router itself.

Can anyone reccommend a quiet router?

Nat Lee
Somersworth, NH


_______________________________________________
RFI mailing list
RFI@contesting.com
http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/rfi

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>