Re: Topband: Help with RFI

2013-01-19 Thread Mike Waters
Jim's suggestion worked beautifully here! 14 turns of CAT5 cable on a single 2.4" #31 core works much better than the old choke with 5 or 6 turns through four stacked 2.4" #31 cores. It eliminated the last traces of RFI coming through my computer speakers running 700w on 75 meters. And three more

Re: Topband: Help with RFI

2013-01-14 Thread Tom W8JI
I'm reposting this to the reflector: Yes, I do have DSL. I have a very good RFI filter on the DSL line coming to the modem so I think it might be a cabling problem. Everything was working FB until recently when I reconfigured the hardware. I have a few clamshell filters and I also have some

Re: Topband: Help with RFI

2013-01-13 Thread Jim Brown
On 1/13/2013 5:08 AM, Brian Machesney wrote: Wrapping everything in ferrite did not solve my 160m RFI problems. OZ7C provided a filter circuit that I use successfully: Let's define the problem. Interference to DSL is VERY different from interference to Ethernet. I agree with Pete that using w

Re: Topband: Help with RFI

2013-01-13 Thread ZR
that feeds it was also very noisy and even outputting on the RG6. Carl KM1H - Original Message - From: "Mike Waters" To: "topband" Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2013 10:38 PM Subject: Re: Topband: Help with RFI I wrap a few turns of the CAT 5 Ethernet cable

Re: Topband: Help with RFI

2013-01-13 Thread Jim Brown
On 1/12/2013 7:38 PM, Mike Waters wrote: I wrap a few turns of the CAT 5 Ethernet cable coming into the back of my shack PC around a few stacked 2.4" diameter #31 ferrite cores. For 160M, 14 turns on a single #31 core is a pretty good choke. Don't overlook power supply cables as a possible rec

Re: Topband: Help with RFI

2013-01-13 Thread James Wolf
: Re: Topband: Help with RFI I wrap a few turns of the CAT 5 Ethernet cable coming into the back of my shack PC around a few stacked 2.4" diameter #31 ferrite cores. Works for me. 73, Mike www.w0btu.com On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 4:48 PM, W7KW wrote: > > I am having a problem with RF g

Re: Topband: Help with RFI

2013-01-13 Thread Brian Machesney
Wrapping everything in ferrite did not solve my 160m RFI problems. OZ7C provided a filter circuit that I use successfully: http://www.ddxg.dk/oz7c/adsl/adsl_160m_filter.pdf G3VMW has done additional work: http://www.rsars.org.uk/ELIBRARY/BBCONNECT.pdf 73 -- Brian K1LI On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 1

Re: Topband: Help with RFI

2013-01-13 Thread Pete Smith N4ZR
I would seriously consider going wireless. A few years ago I had a direct strike on the top of my tower. Fortunately, everything was disconnected, so I sustained no damage in the shack. In fact, the only significant damage was to two computers on a cabled Ethernet network, both of which showe

Re: Topband: Help with RFI

2013-01-12 Thread Mike Waters
I wrap a few turns of the CAT 5 Ethernet cable coming into the back of my shack PC around a few stacked 2.4" diameter #31 ferrite cores. Works for me. 73, Mike www.w0btu.com On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 4:48 PM, W7KW wrote: > > I am having a problem with RF getting into my Ethernet cables. Anyone >

Topband: Help with RFI

2013-01-12 Thread W7KW
Topband -- I am having a problem with RF getting into my Ethernet cables. Anyone have any recommendations for a clamp-on filter that would help remove 1.8 MHz RF? The problem seems to be frequency selective between (1800 to 1830 KHz). No problem 1830 and above. Thanks, Terry W7KW __