[CQ-Contest] Router Recommendation?

Jim Brown k9yc at audiosystemsgroup.com
Fri Aug 24 00:12:23 EDT 2018


On 8/23/2018 1:23 PM, K9MA wrote:
> I should have specified that the internet source was is not DSL, but coax. 

Is it the Ethernet switch or the modem that's got the problem?

What are you calling a "router?" I've most often seen that name applied 
to a WiFi base station.

The LAN cables are unshielded Cat 6, and there are lot of them. Putting 
2 inch cores on each of them is impracticable, so I'm looking for a 
modem with less inherent susceptibility. Problems occur only when I'm 
transmitting on 160.
> 
> It may be the easiest solution is to disconnect all the LAN cables during contests, and just use WiFi.

That may or may not fix it, but by all means try it. If you haven't 
already done so, try a serious choke tuned to 160M on the coax at the 
modem and the power supply for the modem.

73, Jim

> 
> 73,
> 
> Scott K9MA
> 
> ----------
> 
> Scott Ellington
> 
>   --- via iPad
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>> On Aug 23, 2018, at 2:51 PM, Kyle Chavis <wa4pgm at embarqmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> This filter works very well - http://www.pj2t.org/ccc/dsl.160.meter.filter.w8wts.at.pj2t.htm
>>
>> Years back I used a K-COM noise filter that worked well. Not sure if they're made anymore.
>> 73 Kyle, WA4PGM
>>
>>
>>> On 8/23/2018 10:50 AM, K9MA wrote:
>>> Despite a ton of ferrite cores on all the cables, my router fails every time I transmit on 160. I'll admit that RF levels are high, as my shunt-fed tower is only about 20 meters away from the router, and some of the ethernet cables come within about 10 meters of the tower. Has anyone found a router that doesn't have this problem?
>>>
>>> 73,
>>>
>>> Scott K9MA
>>>
>>
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