RiffRaffMama
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I've just developed a radio frequency interference problem.
Before everyone chimes in with "ground loop" it's not an alternator whine or anything like that.
This is directly related to charging my phone through the cigarette lighter plug. When my phone is plugged in the radio experiences interference just like you get driving through a tunnel or between hills/mountains etc - the reception gets sketchy and at worst just drops off when my phone is in certain positions. It is worse when my phone moves around but if it is sitting in the tray beneath the lighter or even just in my lap, it's fine. To be clear, it is not caused by a loose plug/cable/etc when I move my phone, they can be held completely still and this still happens. All I have to do is lift my phone from my lap to sill height and it immediately gets fuzzy then drops out all together
I have established that it is not the charger plug or cable.
It started yesterday and no, I have not done anything to the aerial, radio or cigarette lighter immediately prior to this problem.
I have looked at ground loop noise isolators but this is clearly not the same problem. There is no whining or sounds typical to that problem. It does not get worse when I accelerate.
Anyone have experience with this or able to provide an educated guess as to what is going on here and more importantly, what I can do to fix it?
Before everyone chimes in with "ground loop" it's not an alternator whine or anything like that.
This is directly related to charging my phone through the cigarette lighter plug. When my phone is plugged in the radio experiences interference just like you get driving through a tunnel or between hills/mountains etc - the reception gets sketchy and at worst just drops off when my phone is in certain positions. It is worse when my phone moves around but if it is sitting in the tray beneath the lighter or even just in my lap, it's fine. To be clear, it is not caused by a loose plug/cable/etc when I move my phone, they can be held completely still and this still happens. All I have to do is lift my phone from my lap to sill height and it immediately gets fuzzy then drops out all together
I have established that it is not the charger plug or cable.
It started yesterday and no, I have not done anything to the aerial, radio or cigarette lighter immediately prior to this problem.
I have looked at ground loop noise isolators but this is clearly not the same problem. There is no whining or sounds typical to that problem. It does not get worse when I accelerate.
Anyone have experience with this or able to provide an educated guess as to what is going on here and more importantly, what I can do to fix it?
