[ICOM] Icom 718 and Computer

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The point of weakness in MY shack is my ethernet switch-- all plastic 
construction, no shielding, RF gets into my 6m rig like crazy, and if my 
SWR is bad, I drop packets. Network cables are unsheilded twisted pair-- 
noise tends to cancel out, but the DSL and cable modems themselves, as well 
as hubs, switches, routers, are wide open. Except the ones built in a metal 
box, like my D-Link DI-704 router, which doesn't seem to have problems.

At 10:40 AM 12/7/2005 -0800, you wrote:
>Having trouble remoting Icom 718 with my PC because
>when I transmit, the PC disconnects from the internet.
>
>I have put toroids on all leads and grounded the rig
>and computer to a single earth ground. Maybe some
>SLIGHT improvement with the grounding and liberal
>application of toroids.
>
>Does anyone know what would happen if I moved the
>computer about 20 feet from the rig and extended the
>control cable from the interface to the transceiver by
>20 feet? The control cable is a two conductor cable
>terminated in a 1/8 inch male plug that plugs in the
>back of the 718. My thinking is that maybe the extra
>space between the computer and the transceiver would
>solve the disconnect problem.
>
>Please give me the benefit of your EXPERIENCE. Thanks
>and 73, John, K5PGW
>
>
>
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