> Anyone know why my SWR amp occasionally receives a radio station?
Unplug your bass. Do you still hear the radio station? The reason I ask is
that my bass used to pick up a radio station. As to why... I don't know. Might
have something to do with the wiring/grounding.
- Avenger
You are right. It does seem to be in the bass. It's a 1973 Fender
Precision.
My First Vox amp use to do that...
For me it was a New guitar Cord that did the trick to stop it
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"Barney Rubble" <rons...@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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Call SWR and ask them for a solution - at their expense.
There is no excuse for designing an amp that picks up radio signals today,
with or without an instrument plugged in. We live in an RF soaked world. To
ignore this fact is negligence.
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"Barney Rubble" <rons...@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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Well, that would work well if SWR were still around. They're caput... I'm
sure Fender's customer service is as good as SWRs (HAR!).
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"George Conover" <geo...@cableone.net> wrote in message
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Basses make f* ing good arials (antennas to our friends in the US)
I posted this same question a couple of years ago regarding my Ampeg BA112.
New cables didn't help, but somebody offered info on soldering "something" -
can't remember what - "somewhere" inside of the amp.
I sold it on Ebay instead - hopefully to somebody with a less-powerful radio
station in their neighborhood. I replaced that amp with a B-2R and haven't
had any problems since.
I don't know about anybody else, that that scared the living hell outta me
whenever it happened...
Cheers,
Mark
The amp by itself is going to have a hard time receiving radio signals as
it's prepared to process only the input signal you give it through the 1/4"
instrument cable. I guess it could if it weren't grounded, but I can't back
this up with facts...
Kind Regards,
Nathaniel
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in article mCwCb.10620$IF6.4...@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca, Saint Avenger at
av...@agff.ca wrote on 12/12/03 8:31 PM:
> This happened to me too with my first bass, a japanese Rickenbacker copy
> that had very little shielding for the electronics (it was a cheap and heavy
> beast at that!)
Interesting, the instrument it happened to me with was a real Rickenbacker.
- Avenger
"Nathaniel Flick" <n...@flikworld.com> wrote in message
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> The most common entry point for RF into consumer electronics is the AC
power
> cord. Our amplifiers present an even more inviting entry point via the
input
> cables.
Sounds like termites or rats!!
I practice in the living room sometimes.. right next to the TV.
The TV and the VCR have to be off.. or I get scads of static.
I run the output of the stereo headphone jack into a digitech rp7.. and use
headphones..*I can leave the volume up and the speakers working.. that way
anyone else here just hears the music I'm practicing with, at a decent
volume*
Suddenly.. my tone was crap... and I started getting signals from god knows
what.. could have been music, could have been tv.. too distorted to tell.
I replaced the tube in the rp7 and it went away and my tone came back.
How in the hell a bad tube can make the rp7 pickup other signals is beyond
me.. but there you go.
Twang!
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"Barney Rubble" <rons...@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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I should have said digitech rp7 guitar mulit effects unit.
scuse me.
basste
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Man, keep yor amp away from the TV. Those magnets will kill your TV tube.