[Flexradio] LinkSys routers...new lamps for old?

[Jim Barber]

Continuing stories -

I replaced a (otherwise excellent) DLINK 802.11N router that was wiping 
me out on HF with a Netgear router that has compatibility issues and 
wipes me out on 2 meters.

[sigh]

73,
Jim, N7CXI

radioart at frontiernet.net wrote:
> My spurs and broadband noises was caused by a neighbors computer.  When ever he would put his computer into the hibernate mode it would generate this 59+20dB noise wiping out 40m and 20m.....  My antenna was about 100' from his house.
> 
> Once I showed him the problem was coming from his computer he was more than happy to replace the power supply at his expense.  What a guy!!  We should all be so lucky.  Now the bands are clear....
> 
> Dennis Petrich
> Amateur Radio Station K0EOO
> Lakeville Minnesota USA
> k0eoo at arrl.net
> 952-898-1082
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Ragle" <tpcj1r03 at crocker.com>
> To: jbmcl at bellsouth.net, flexradio at flex-radio.biz
> Sent: Thursday, October 1, 2009 9:56:49 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
> Subject: [Flexradio] LinkSys routers...new lamps for old?
> 
>     The suggestion that this QRM comes from a LinkSys router has been 
> made before on the reflector, leading me to load up /our/ LinkSys router 
> with ferrite cores and then finally to turn it off, risking a quick 
> death from my XYL who is a software developer and spends much of her 
> time on line. This did not cure the problem. Going from house to house 
> asking my neighbors about their routers conjures up amusing 
> possibilities...and I suspect that most of the nearby on-line people are 
> using LinkSys equipment, as it it what Staples and other local stores 
> vend. /Sick transmit glorious mundane/.
> 
> John Ragle -- W1ZI
> 
>    
> 
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