[RFI] RF getting into 4-port wirelss router.

[Jim Brown]

On Mon,1/12/2015 9:42 AM, Roger (K8RI) wrote:
> I'm strongly thinking of going all wireless. 

I've been almost exactly that since moving to CA in 2006. The wireless 
router is in the house, the shack is about 40 ft away. Both buildings 
are wood frame construction. The only things connected via CAT5 are 
cables from the router to 1) the cable modem, 2) a computer on the desk 
next to the router, and 3) a printer next to the computer. There are 
multi-turn #31 chokes on all of those CAT5 cables, and also on the power 
supply cables. The power supplies for router and modem are linear wall 
warts float-charging a sealed lead-acid battery, acting as a UPS for the 
network. The chokes are there so that I don't hear the Ethernet traffic 
on the ham bands -- typically around 14,030, 21,063, and the bottom end 
of 10M and 6M. For 6M, I add two-turn chokes between the HF chokes and 
the electronics.

I have four computers in the shack (two for radio, two for the remains 
of my biz), all of them on the network. For RTTY contests, I network two 
laptops to run SO2R, each dedicated to a radio. Networking works quite 
well.

73, Jim K9YC