Interesting - remember that strips of aluminum
foil were used in World War II as anti-radar chaff.
Tinsel is currently made with aluminum foil
laminated in between layers of plastic or with
metallized polyester film. Sounds like your wife
got the aluminum kind!
So your wife inadvertently made "Christmas chaff"
which blocked the wireless signal.
DrNic wrote:
> Hi all
> Just thought I'd throw this one into the forums as a
warning!!
> The wife has just been plastering the house with the
usual festive
> decorations - mucho chintz tinsel (you didn't hear
me say that -
> right!).
> I use FLAC on a wireless SB1 (I'm hoping Santa will
bring a SB3..), and
> normally don't ever have a problem with drop-outs.
After the seasonal
> shananigans were appropriately aranged (took a
while!) up popped a few
> drop-outs in the music... ARGHH!
> My wireless signal had dropped down to 14% (usual
~45%)!
> The culprit was tinsel around the Hi-fi stand (and
near it!) - removing
> this and the signal came back and drop-outs went!
>
> I'm sure I've read somewhere about this before.
> So - try to keep the tinsel down to a minimum - bah
humbug.... :)
>
> Nic
>
>
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