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Old October 29th 05, 04:47 AM
Matthew&Wendy
 
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Default Faraday Cage

Should I put the chokes on the cables inside, or just outside the casing?


"Telamon" wrote in message
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"Matthew&Wendy" wrote:

I like to use my computer to translate CW and record shortwave. However,
the
computer throws out a lot of RFI. If I build a Faraday cage around it,
will
this help? Does the cage need to be grounded?

Matthew Plante
KC2KEI
Scars are the proof that man can survive his own stupidity.


Building a Faraday cage around the computer would be a lot of work. Most
of the noise is radiated from the cabling so use ferrite common mode
chokes on the cables.

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Telamon
Ventura, California