[UK-CONTEST] 80m and ADSL

[John Lemay]

Morning all

Maybe a little off topic, but I know there's a mine of information out there
!

I might be giving our local (Colchester) club a bit of support in some of
the 80m contests this year (AFS and CC). With just 100w to a Butternut I
won't be exactly challenging the leaders, but it's the group effort which
will benefit.

Anyway, to get technical:- Whenever I run more than 20w or so on 80m, I
notice that my ADSL connection is interrupted. As far as I can tell, the
landline phone itself is not affected. I'm a bit concerned I may be having a
similar affect on my neighbours.

I have simple "clip-on" ferrites on all leads but suspect that at relatively
low frequencies like 3.5MHz these might not be effective enough? The cable
just passes through the ferrite; there are no multiple turns.

I've noticed in addition that for other unknown reasons, I occasionally lose
my ADSL for a minute or two. I can't be watching the leds on the wireless
router all the time, so I'm wondering if there's any bits of software I can
monitor my connection with over a long period? A "Google" has not been
fruitful.

Thanks in anticipation

John G4ZTR