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Re: [RFI] router RFI

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Subject: Re: [RFI] router RFI
From: Cortland Richmond <ka5s@earthlink.net>
Reply-to: ka5s@earthlink.net
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2013 07:34:28 -0500
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On 3/4/2013 0034, Jim Brown wrote:
Dale and Cortland -- something you could do for us is provide a good description of the spectra that typically results from Ethernet traffic so

Unfortunately, being retired I no longer have access to test results that would refresh my memory, and I (perhaps fortunately) don't have Ethernet at home that I could use to rediscover it. Maybe I'll buy a cheap second-hand router and look; I've a "new" Advantest R3621 analyzer coming that will need testing.

Something we did years ago at AST Research was to insure that the shielded Ethernet connector ports (when we started indlcuing them) were well grounded with a springy metal EMI gasket. IIRC, that is actually violating of the Ethernet standard, since we uses shielded twosted pair, and it allows equipment of different ground potentials to be connected to each other, but that was what we had to do to meet Part 15. Everyone uses that technique to ground I/O ports nowadays, but I had had to insist on it a number of times back at Tandy and spent some time arguing for fingers around board slots, too.

Cortland
KA5S
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