[TVI-RFI-EMI] What length should I avoid?

Tue, 28 May 2002 22:12:10 -0400

Make it six feet, with a little extra in case you decide to
move things around, and put ferrites on the outisde
held by wire-ties or shrink-wrap or both.  Or use splits
and wrap nine turns at each end of the cable.  Or do both.

For my money, I'd leave the separate cables and use a
cable loom to group them together.  Soldering time zero.
And no worries about one wire breaking and ruining the whole thing.

73, Byron

At 05:10 PM 5/27/2002 -0500, FireBrick wrote:
>I'm building myself a "SuperCable".
>Picked up a piece of 10 pair, twisted/shielded at Dayton.
>Picked up all the connectors to make a all in one cable from my computer to
>my FT1000MP.
>Hope to eliminate the rats nest.
>Have beads for conductors, audio transformers for the AF in/out lines.
>This cable also has a shield around all the already shielded pairs.
>
>So..the question is.
>Since I don't want to strain my eyes doing all that soldering to those tiny
>connectors just to find out I made it some wavelength multiple that serves
>as an antenna on the 10-160 meter bands I operate.
>What length should I use or stay away from.
>I need approx 6 (six) feet to neatly go from the computer to the rig.
>
>
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