("David Lesher" wrote)
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Well, first fly the handheld in another airframe. That establishes
iffen it's part of the solution or the precipatate.

If all's clean in that case, start looking at all grounds on yours.
Disconnect the easy antennas first.... and see if anything changes.
Keep good notes!

If all else fails...http://www.spacemodel.com/pic355.html


I've been fascinated with this thread. I'm following the discussion without
really understanding what it is I'm following ...but I'm able to follow it -
sort of.

I was going to offer my advice (a while ago) based on my boat trailer
experience - when in doubt, it's the ground. When you think you've cleaned
up the ground, replace the ground wire. When you've done that, make yet
another (fresh) ground connection, etc.

We took a friend's little 4x8 (utility) trailer out to SoDak this fall, when
we went pheasant hun'n. We were having all kinds of lighting problems with
that darn trailer before we left. He was very big into diagnosing the
problem. I ran 5 ft of fresh ground wire from the minivan tail lamp socket
to the trailer plug - making two (new) fresh ground connections along the
way. Lights worked fine. Double-grounded the trailer side of the plug with
new wire too - just in case. (20 minutes)

He wanted to know what it is I did, technically speaking. My answer - I'm
not exactly sure, but it always seems to do the trick.

--
Montblack