I tried something like that once, but with an external antenna and 40 watts while running FT8, and my laptop's USB phy would fritz out during transmissions and refuse to recognize my Signallink, let alone my mouse. Had to use clamp-on chokes and find a metal laptop case screw to attach a ground lead before it would resolve itself. RF is crazy.
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