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<blockquote data-quote="Caley Monahon-Ward" data-source="post: 123079" data-attributes="member: 2048">Re: RF Query From The FieldThanks for the replies....Some quick responses:-Actors underneath the RX antennas is an interesting possibility. I don&#039;t think that&#039;d be it this time -- it might have happened on this show but very rarely. And the antennas were about 9-10&#039; off the ground, so the actors wouldn&#039;t have been right on top of them. Definitely something to keep in mind in the future, though.-No RF comms on this show.Here&#039;s a post-show update. Things worked out well ultimately, but I changed multiple things at once so hard to say which solved the problem. I got the shop to send an additional pair of passive paddles to eliminate the passive splitter that was splitting the RF between channels 1-8 and 9-10, separated the two main antennas by another 6 feet or so, scanned manually using the receivers and completely retuned using Wireless Workbench, since I had to retune a couple of channels that were seeing interference and ran out of backup freqs in the list provided from the shop. Despite the freqs being initially clear before I turned on bodypacks on the first couple of days of my tech, I did encounter some interference -- some of it strong enough to defeat the squelch -- on later days. So it&#039;s possible that some of the problems I had were hits from outside sources that weren&#039;t initially active. The theater is a block away from a busy NYPD and NYFD station -- I suppose there might be some intermittent out of band RF from their radios. Or who knows what else.Subbing in some passive whip antennas did not improve things, so now I don&#039;t think overload was the problem. I&#039;m now thinking it was more of a tuning issue, and also the fact that I&#039;m used to working in smaller, more reflective venues. This theater doesn&#039;t have a huge stage, but it does have a hollow floor and a fly loft, so I guess there isn&#039;t much for the RF to bounce off of. Time to get a spectrum analyzer, I guess!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Caley Monahon-Ward, post: 123079, member: 2048"] Re: RF Query From The Field Thanks for the replies.... Some quick responses: -Actors underneath the RX antennas is an interesting possibility. I don't think that'd be it this time -- it might have happened on this show but very rarely. And the antennas were about 9-10' off the ground, so the actors wouldn't have been right on top of them. Definitely something to keep in mind in the future, though. -No RF comms on this show. Here's a post-show update. Things worked out well ultimately, but I changed multiple things at once so hard to say which solved the problem. I got the shop to send an additional pair of passive paddles to eliminate the passive splitter that was splitting the RF between channels 1-8 and 9-10, separated the two main antennas by another 6 feet or so, scanned manually using the receivers and completely retuned using Wireless Workbench, since I had to retune a couple of channels that were seeing interference and ran out of backup freqs in the list provided from the shop. Despite the freqs being initially clear before I turned on bodypacks on the first couple of days of my tech, I did encounter some interference -- some of it strong enough to defeat the squelch -- on later days. So it's possible that some of the problems I had were hits from outside sources that weren't initially active. The theater is a block away from a busy NYPD and NYFD station -- I suppose there might be some intermittent out of band RF from their radios. Or who knows what else. Subbing in some passive whip antennas did not improve things, so now I don't think overload was the problem. I'm now thinking it was more of a tuning issue, and also the fact that I'm used to working in smaller, more reflective venues. This theater doesn't have a huge stage, but it does have a hollow floor and a fly loft, so I guess there isn't much for the RF to bounce off of. Time to get a spectrum analyzer, I guess! [/QUOTE]

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