Radio Freq. or Electromagnetic Interference, any solutions?

Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 2:13 pm

So did you get anywhere with the testing?

Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 5:17 pm

I reiterate my recommendation to try an Amateur Radio Club. Those guys find RF for fun. Its called fox hunting. They use wide band receivers and highly directional antennas. Coupled with a spectrum analyzer, they could find your source in a jiffy. They could also neutralize the interference. The American Amateur Radio Relay League, ARRL.org, publishes much material on the mitigation of RF interference.

MW

Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 6:01 pm

taxman wrote:

I reiterate my recommendation to try an Amateur Radio Club. Those guys find RF for fun. Its called fox hunting. They use wide band receivers and highly directional antennas. Coupled with a spectrum analyzer, they could find your source in a jiffy. They could also neutralize the interference. The American Amateur Radio Relay League, ARRL.org, publishes much material on the mitigation of RF interference.

MW

That's fine for finding the source of the interference but it does not mean that you can easily shut the source down (even if the source is an illegal radiation)!

It is more logical to find HOW the interference is causing the studio problem first. Once that is known there are steps that can be taken to minimise or eliminate the problem within the studio itself. It is certainly not worth taking a scatter gun approach though as this could cost a small fortune with no solution. Of course if the studio was local to me I could take a spectrum analyser round but I certainly wouldn't bother doing that on a first call.

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