Topband: ADSL 160 meter RFI problems

[Tom Rauch]

I had ADSL installed last month because I was having 
problems receiving and sending mail via my remote mail host. 
BellSouth is actually where the problem was at for email. 
:-)

Anyway despite having a very clean installation (shielded 
buried phone lines) and antennas several hundred feet away 
from the ADSL system and phone lines.... 160 would just kill 
the DSL modem. Even a dipole 300 feet high and 400 feet away 
that had little RF in any of the lines would knock the modem 
off line. I even built a very good 160 notch filter and 
could not cure it.

The original modem was a Netopia 2210-02 modem. It's a tiny 
little silver modem.

ATT sent me a 2701HG-B Gateway as a no charge exchange and 
all the problems vanished. Even beaming straight into the 
building where the modem is or using a dipole right outside 
the building doesn't cause any connection problems. (I still 
have the 160 notch filter I built in line.)

73 Tom