One of K9YC's suggestions I took was to eliminate all unintentional cat 5 "antennas" in favor or wireless usb dongles. I went with linsys AE1200s which were on sale cheap from an Amazon partner. My only regret is that linksys, oddly, does not have linux drivers for this dongle. If you don't plan on using linux not a problem.
I also put the wireless router, an SMC wireless G, at the other end of the house. I gave away an Apple Airport as even at the other end of the house it spewed all kinds of trash, annoying on 80 and 30M. Switches in the shack are likely to be noisy and their noise may propagate via the cables if you put them elsewhere. Wireless G is plenty fast unless you do a lot of file xfer between computers. You might also want to lay on a good stock of 31 material toroids with 1.5" or better IDs so you can wind rig cables at both ends. I have found USB cables to be a pipeline for RF into and out of PC and rigs. So I use a 2 port PCI serial card from StarTech for rig cat to K3 and IC7000. Much less cable mess behind the desk. -- 73, chuck de AB1VL ab1vl.com ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
