At 08:45 PM 8/17/2005, Don Hill AA5AU wrote:
>Interesting information Bill.
>
>I would have thought a USB keyboard would have been worse with RFI as that has
>been my experience here with other USB devices (but not keyboards). The best
>solution I've had for keyboard RFI is to wrap the keyboard cable around a
>ferrite rod. This was a trick I learned from Eddie, G0AZT, down in the
>Bahamas
>many years ago.
The ferrite rod sounds like a good idea, especially if you use one designed
for an AM radio loopstick antenna, which should be the right material.
>Were you using ferrite beads, toroids or rods? I'm thinking the reason the
>ferrite didn't help is because perhaps they are not of the material to
>attenuate
>frequencies that low. If they are made of material 43, which I think is
>common,
>then they won't attenuate 160 meter frequencies.
I used eight of the clamshell type snap-on ferrites and one of the double
"U" type with three turns through it. I have no idea which material. They
were some I've had laying around for years.
The reason I suspect it wasn't actually the keyboard itself is that as I
raised and lowered the power output the freezing occurred at the same
point, regardless of which keyboard or whether the cable had any ferrites
at all on it. I would think even the "wrong" ferrite material would have
made a slight difference, but it didn't. That made me suspect the problem
was occurring inside the computer itself. This is all speculation, of course.
>Here's a great chart showing material and what frequencies they attenuate:
>
>http://www.cwsbytemark.com/CatalogSheets/PDF_Files/2_12.pdf
Good chart. I'll save a copy. Thanks, Don.
Bill, W6WRT
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