DaFlo

Thank you everyone for getting back to me so quickly! Really appreciate the help. I overlooked something quite significant, actually. As I don't have soldering tools myself yet, I did the modification over at a friend's shop, who works with motherboards and computers. He made a suggestion - an additional step - which I believe is very likely the culprit to this problem. The sma connector was grounded to case. Sounds to me like that is ruining the whole RF output. A valuable lesson in following tried-and-tested instructions to a tee... Won't be making that mistake again! For curiousity's sake, I grabbed a photo of one of the units anyway - looks as if the wiring to the SMA was loose and came off on disassembly. I'll be going back in to fix them all from here, without any unnecessary additional steps this time. Thanks again for all your help, everyone.

Hi everyone, Hope you’re all doing well. A junior soundie here. I’ve run into an issue with my recently modified G3’s. The units are suffering terrible drop outs when the line of sight between transmitter-reciever antennae is broken. Unfortunately that includes the talent whose back the transmitter sits on. I can’t help but think that this isn’t supposed to happen, and I’ve somehow made a mistake along the way. I follow Steve Oakley’s youtube tutorial, got my connectors from ebay and am using remote audio sma whip antennas. Are the sma units supposed to be this directional? If so, what is used to overcome the problem? Is there a more omnidirectional antenna to consider, should I consider something like a Betso Bowtie to catch more of the frequencies there, or is the best solution to save faster for Lectro/Zaxcom? Thanks for reading!

Looking for help with a Betso SBox-1, which I bought second hand. I press the buttons to turn it on, and the "turning on" info comes on, but then it stops. After that, I cannot interact with the buttons at all, unless I take out the batteries, and put it back in, where I can only turn it on before it turns off again. Does anyone have a Betso SBox-1 that has encountered this issue, and knows how to fix it?