[Yaesu] RFI router issue resolved!

[John Geiger]

I will be going to wireless most likely in the future
when I get some more money-like tax refund time.  The
router I have is a wireless G.  Is that good enough
for around the house in most cases, or would a N
router be much better?

73s John AA5JG

--- K9MI <k9mi at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Wireless seems the only way to go with the small lot
> and everything being 
> too darn close here. Cat5 made an excellent antenna
> here. Now when the kids 
> come from out of state with their laptops, they can
> sit out in the front 
> room and not string Cat5 up and down the hallway
> like they used to.
> 
> Best of luck to all...
> 
> 73, Mike K9MI
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Steve London" <n2icarrl at gmail.com>
> To: "John Geiger" <n5ten at yahoo.com>
> Cc: <ft100 at yahoogroups.com>; <yaesu at contesting.com>
> Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 00:20
> Subject: Re: [Yaesu] RFI router issue resolved!
> 
> 
> > Why not just go wireless and get rid of all the
> CAT5 cables ?
> >
> > As I unfortunately found out last summer, the CAT5
> cables interconnecting 
> > all
> > the boxes also provide another path for
> lightning-induced surges to be 
> > propagated.
> >
> > 73,
> > Steve, N2IC
> >
> > John Geiger wrote:
> >> For those who may be having the same problem, I
> did
> >> resolve my RFI and router problem to the point
> where
> >> both the router and my Yaesu FT100D could
> co-exist.
> >> There are a couple of minor birdies now, but I
> can
> >> live with them.  First, to answer a few issues
> that
> >> were brought up before:
> >>
> >> 1. It wasn't the wallwart.  I have a Lanpro
> ethernet
> >> hub which is RF quiet, and I would use the
> wallwart
> >> from it on the various routers I tried, and the
> >> birdies were still there.
> >>
> >> 2. I was using shielded CAT5 cables.  They were
> >> radiating the interfering signal, though, as when
> I
> >> disconnected them from the router, the birdies
> >> disappeared.
> >>
> >> 3. I tried a couple of chokes on the CAT cable
> with no
> >> luck.
> >>
> >> So here was my solution-I could only get 2 IP
> >> addresses through the cable company here, so
> running
> >> all 3 computers through the ethernet hub didn't
> work.
> >> However, the router gets its own IP address, and
> then
> >> it will assign its own addresses to the computers
> >> connected to it.  I connected the router (Net
> Gear
> >> brand) to the cable modem, and connected the
> computer
> >> next to it directly to the router.  Its cable was
> >> short enough to not cause problems.  I then
> connected
> >> the 2 long CAT5 runs to the ethernet hub, and
> then
> >> connected the hub to another port on the router. 
> The
> >> isolation with the hub in line was enough to kill
> all
> >> of the birdies except for 1 or 2 which were
> reduced
> >> enough to live with using a notch filter (thank
> God
> >> the autonotch on the FT100D works on CW, but a
> manual
> >> notch is always better).
> >>
> >> Now all computers are connected to the internet,
> the
> >> cable company is happy, the radio is happy, and
> most
> >> of all, AA5JG is happy!
> >>
> >> 73s John AA5JG
> >>
> >>
> >> 
> >>
>
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