Thread: I radiate TV interference - wife annoyed

The only surprise is working out if it's you or something you bought.



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Simon



Shocking

Ron

Maybe you need to turn yourself into a Faraday cage. You would just need to get into a braided copper or other electrically conductive suit, bang a few ferrites over all of your appendages then ground yourself either to a earth stake or possibly into the earth socket in a GPO.

If it doesn't work get back to me!

Diana

BTW: I had the same with a re-transmitter for the cable/sat TV box. The biggest problem was the WiFi on the router, as soon as a laptop was turned on the remote TV's went off. Solved the problem by hard wiring the satellite box using the second SCART socket. Only problem is remote control.

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

Ron
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Maybe you need to turn yourself into a Faraday cage.
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I knew there was a use for all of those T4 cables.

Cheers
Simon

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

BTW: I had the same with a re-transmitter for the cable/sat TV box. The biggest problem was the WiFi on the router, as soon as a laptop was turned on the remote TV's went off. Solved the problem by hard wiring the satellite box using the second SCART socket. Only problem is remote control.

I had a lot of interference problems with the first AV transmitter we bought. It was on 2.4 GHz and was mightily affected by microwave ovens - not just ours (it took a while to work that one out) and by our WiFi.

Easy solution... take the TV out of the bedroom! Unless you need it for um... inspirational DVDs...

Watch out Ron!!! That stuff makes you sterile

Originally Posted by jx2mad

Watch out Ron!!! That stuff makes you sterile

That was always the worry when I worked on satellite earth stations that transmitted in the 6GHz region (Rx 4GHz)

G'day Ron

This only happens with the cable TV, right?

Maybe there is some reflection or multipathing going on, like from big (solid) metal surfaces (could include a tin roof or something like that). So, when you walk into the room, the path you are disturbing may not be the direct line of sight path.

One way to try to get around it is relocating the antennas of the 5.8G link, maybe the one at the TV end (since the cable end will be limited in its movement).

Have you tried the same Rx somewhere else in the house?

I don't know how these things are with other 5.8G links nearby... if there is some code setting maybe you could try changing that.

Good luck,