Hi Laurence from memory ....I dont use laptops so didnt need do it.....the easiest way of "decoupling" the serial comms loops, is a pair of opto couplers on the RS-232 there are app notes in the data
I have an interesting example of this with my PC and router. Initially when I set assembled my new PC a couple of years ago I found terrible hash from its psu on 80m and 40m. This was traced to the i