[RFI] 160 Meter Interference

[Dale J.]

I had a signal on 75 meters which I traced to my eithernet cable going 
to a laser printer in the basement, about a 25 foot run.  I unpluged 
the cat 5 cable from my router and the signal disappeared.

Dale


On Oct 5, 2004, at 19:41, Ford Peterson wrote:

> Bill wrote:
>
>> I have eliminated my house as the culprit by shutting down the main 
>> breaker
>> and operating the radio off battery power. I have also asked my 
>> neighbor to do the
>> same thing which provided no clue either.
>
> I had a switching supply on my LAN router that was giving me fits.  So 
> I'd smack it on the desk top (pretty hard I might add) a few times and 
> the noise would go away (or at least detune it for a while ; ).  Sure 
> as heck it would return at the most inopportune moment, so I'd smack 
> it up side the head a few more times.  Replacing it with a linear 
> supply seems to have solved the problem forever.  But it occurs to me, 
> do you have some device hooked to a UPS?  Or the UPS itself may be a 
> problem.  With the interference so loud, it has to be close by.
>
> Ford-N0FP
> ford at cmgate.com
>
>
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