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Old October 29th 05, 05:50 PM
John Steffes
 
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Default Faraday Cage

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
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Try some Mu-metal sheeting around the computer. It acts as an absorber
of radiated stuff. The benefit is that no grounding is necessary.

John
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