[Elecraft] 14.03 MHz Continuous Tone/Carrier?@#$

[Leigh L Klotz, Jr.]

In my house, I installed optical fiber when the walls were open for a 
remodel.  I chose unpopular and cheap ST connector style and used 
multimode fiber, which is good only for "short" runs (i.e. not for 
metropolitan wiring.  As a result, I was able to get 10mb and 100mb to 
fiber converters for $30 and cable for free or cheap.  In my shack Linux 
box, I used a fiber PCI for  I paid $10 on eBay.  So, there are no long 
runs of Cat5 anywhere in my house, only short runs from DSL modem to the 
fiber converter and the 802.11 device.

As a result of doing this and switching to 10mb for the places where 
that was fast enough, I have eliminated the birdies I generate.  Now I 
have a directional antenna on 20m and can rotate it to find the null.  
Someday I may go door-to-door and offer "help" but I may wait until 
802.11n comes out and see if I can find a good device, and then 
recommend it as an upgrade.

73,
Leigh/WA5ZNU
On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 7:01 am, Alan Biocca wrote:
> Another technique is to put things on wifi and reduce or eliminate the 
> wired network. 2.4 GHZ doesn't generally bother HF.
>