Ty,
Thanks for your thoughts. When I said “putting a jack into a lav system” I did mean plugging the mini part of the XLR cable into the wireless (jack into plug).
The phantom power was on, which might have been the issue- I am giving it a test run tomorrow. I am not sure if the AGC was turned off at the time as I showed the camera to someone today and they messed with a few settings- regardless, it’s off now. The maddening part is the inconsistency- I am pretty careful when it comes to checking what steps I take to solve a problem- and the phantom static I get truly seems to be random.
Regardless, thank you for answering my question- I’ll check it out tomorrow and report back if the issues arises again.
Thanks,
Smith