Garage Door Opener RFI Kit

SWAN 250, 350, 400, 500, 700 Transceiver RFI Kit - 4 RFI/Noise Reduction Filters

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SWAN 250, 350, 400, 500, 700 Transceiver RFI Kit - 4 RFI/Noise Reduction Filters
Product Details
MPN: RFI-YAESU-991
Type: NEW
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Filter Power Rating (PEP watts): 1500
RFI Suppression Range (MHz): 1-300 MHz
# Ferrite Filters: 8 (3 ring, 5 snap-on)
Enclosure Size (inches): n/a
Typical Use:: DC power, RF output(2), 5 additional I/O lines

BUY THIS KIT NOW TO SOLVE YOUR RFI/EMI NEEDS! WORKS WITH MANY BRANDS OF HAM/COMMERCIAL HF RADIOS WITH DUAL ANTENNAS OUTPUTS AND MULTIPLE I/O CONNECTIONS INCLUDING ALL SWAN TRANSCEIVERS (12X, 240, 250, 350, 400, 500, 700)


Kit Includes noise reduction ring filters for coax cable and AC power line, DC power (from 117XC or equivalent power supply), and 1 snap on filters for T/R relay cable covering RFI range of 1-300 MHz. Quick installation - immediate RFI/noise reduction. No radio mods required.

This kit will help reduce or eliminate:

1. “Hot mic” RFI caused by poor grounding of antennas or common mode currents from linear amps feeding unbalanced (coax fed) antennas without baluns/line isolators.

2. RFI to neighbor’s electronic devices including audio/video systems, computers, telephones, garage door openers, etc.

3. RFI to your other radios, audio/video systems, computers, telephones, etc.

A side benefit is a reduction in noise floor in your receiver depending on the amount of noise being introduced by common mode currents (which are blocked/reduced by the chokes in this kit).

These chokes use a special mix of ferrite core material that is effective in suppressing radio frequency interference from transmitters and high noise floor on receivers.

The split beads beads are easy to use, don’t require modification of the protected equipment and work in almost all cases, even when plug-in filters fail.

Use of the chokes often helps cure SWR problems between transceiver and a linear amp and between transceiver and antenna tuner or direct to antenna. The DC power line choke helps keep common mode current out of the power line which could cause interference to other devices connected to the same power line if not suppressed.

For additional RFI suppression, use a feed line choke (MC-1-3000) at the antenna feed point to suppress common current on the coax feed line and a coax noise filter (like our CMNF-500-50) at the radio end of the coax to further reduce common mode noise picked up by the coax cable braid.


If you use a linear amplifier use a Palomar Engineers amplifier RFI kit for additional RFI interference suppression.

Christmas lights or yard lights with switching DC power supplies are often the RFI source and a clamp on ferrite bead on the AC AND the DC side feeding the lights is needed to help suppress the switching power supply RFI noise.  Suitable snap on beads are FSB31-1/2 for the 1-250 MHz range.

We have also had reported wireless HDTV boxes, and FOSCAM and AMCREST security camera systems causing RFI to garage door remote openers. Use our Garage Door Opener RFI kit to suppress the interference to the opener (VICTIM) – you need one kit for each opener.  Maximize the distance from the camera to the openers may also help.  Additionally shield cable to the garage door sensors may be needed depending on severity of the camera RFI.

Obvious Tech Note: make sure your remote batteries have enough energy to activate the GDO or the signal they transmit may not be large enough to over ride the RFI signal, but a fresh battery may be able to overcome the weak RFI source and allow the GDO to operate correctly.