[Skylar Duhe]

I work in in broadcasting and we record in a studio. We have at least 8 of these microphones on intermittently throughout the show and this issue seems to be happening on one of our anchors. She hooks the belt pack under her garments and we seem to think that its putting pressure on wires on the belt transmitter. The antenna becomes bent over time. We have been thinking that it happens when the antenna signal is getting interfered with or the antenna bends to a not friendly angle. I’ve also had to fix a few different mics at the connector due to the wires separating from the connector. I’m pretty new to this job so I haven’t had the time for all the troubleshooting necessary yet. Just posting what I have found so far. I’m subscribed to this thread for more ideas as well.

If it was hypothetically static electricity, wouldn’t it be happening on all my anchors since they all have the belt pack clipped under their jackets, or to their cloths and so on. I don’t see much difference in placement between them, it’s all similar conditions. Would the static electricity theory be happening at at the mic location or at the connector location? Thoughts? So far my issue seems to be isolated to a specific person, two different microphones we have used on her.

I am going to be reversing the direction of the antenna by reversing the belt clip direction to see if there is less antenna interference.