fishman rare earth p up picking up radio signals

midlifecrisis

just bought a used fishman rare earth pickup but picks up radio signals. tried different leads, amps, places round the house but same. is there somethng i can do to eliminate or should i send it back.

midlifecrisis

anyone help?   when i touch the pickup the radio signal is very loud.  

ICBM

Sounds like it's faulty. I've never come across one that does that.

Contact the seller and see what they say.

midlifecrisis

weird, its seems to be ok now, i cant make it do that now even if i want.  will try it in the morning and see. maybe we have some weird radio thing going on around here thats stopped. a bit disconcerting. I eamiled seller, he says he never had a problem, i believe him.wonder if my 3 leads are a bit dodgy, but as i say, its seems ok at the moment.

Cabicular

Taxi nearby?

crunchman

You haven't got a deaf neighbour with a hearing aid induction loop have you?

thermionic

I remember in the days of plugging in my Satellite into my parents' Radiogram (through the 5-pin DIN socket for a tape recorder), hearing loud and clear, one half of a conversation on illegal 27MHz CB radio. I recognised the voice, it was one of my friends from school!

midlifecrisis

took it into electrohill and he tried it on one of his amps. said it was a broken earth connection, by wiggling the wire it came and went. reckons he knows where the break is and can cut and splice it., good bloke. I should really return it to the ebayer  but if its an easy fix id rather not be bothered with the hassle