[Elecraft] Interference from new wireless router

John k7up at hughes.net
Wed Mar 18 16:14:28 EDT 2009


At 12:59 PM 18/03/09, you wrote:
>I recently changed my wireless router in the shack.  It took me a
>while to realize it was the culprit responsible for some interesting
>sounding RF interference.
>
>Having recently built my K1, it worked very well but recently I noted
>low frequency rapid "clicks"  It sounded just like a broad poorly
>shaped CW sig just out of the bandpass...you know, clicks.  I kept
>thinking a very fast CW op was "just around the corner".
>
>Just moving the router back a bit solved the problem.
>
>I bring it up because I did not expect router interference to sound
>like that.
>
>Curious if anyone else had a similar experience.
>
>The new Router is an Apple Airport Extreme.
>
>John
>AB8O

I have, just on the K1. It sounds like an old motor scooter, 
putt/putt/putt........ Think it's getting in on the DC line. Don't 
hear it on the K2's or K3, however, the router puts out some fine 
birdies in the HF spectrum. Too bad some of them fall in the ham bands.

The router is a Netgear.

John
k7up



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