Gary,
I don't know if this will be of help to you, but back during my long
radio saga (see archives), one of the measures taken was replacing
the mag noise filters. When the wires were re-connected, the person
who did them apparently just rolled back the braided wire sheathing
(that's around each wire but under the outer plastic layer) and did
not reconnect it properly, so the wires were only partially
shielded: the vibration of flight (greater than on the ground)
separated the fine braided wires from the connection even more.
Correcting that by properly including the braided wire sheathing into
the connection did help that particular round of static. I'm not sure
at this moment if I'm recalling correctly *which* wires it was, but
IIRC it was the p-leads. In any event, you may want to check all
wires in that system for whether they're supposed to be (and are)
the kind that have the braided wire sheathing, and if so, have they
been properly connected in a way that includes the sheathing.
Linda
N3437H (Sky Sprite)
L.A.
1a. radio static
Posted by: "G. Davis" [email protected] alfenta1
Date: Sun Apr 26, 2009 7:04 am ((PDT))
Hi all, I posted this once, but so far no real progress;my radio is
clear on the ground, but at 100' or so, it just starts with the most
deafening static that is constant. I have adjusted the squelch to
nothing, and nothing helps. The only time this noise stops is when I
fiddle with the PTT button. IT stops for a brief time, but restarts
again immediately. I have the Icom 6-a radio, Dave Clark headsets and
an intercom. I wonder, can a low battery on the Icom radio cause
this. This is a new problem, and the only new thing I have done to
the plane is we cleaned the mags and put new points in. Any help is
appreciated, because this was a perfect comm set up until last week.
Thanks for reading this note.
Gary
