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BurnOut

It's The Billy Baloney Show
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Feb 1, 2015
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My band "Duh Jokers", it's not just a clever name, it's a disclaimer. We practice spring and summer at our drummers house. When football season hits fall/winter, we are evicted. The drummer's wife is a rabid football fan and doesn't want us ruining her NFL Sunday, the day we practice. I picked up the slack last year, bought a Behringer PMX2000 powered mixer (I Know,I Know) & a pair of JBL TR105 plus all the other stuff, mics, stands and what not. So we moved to my house till spring.
I live within a half a mile of I-75 a very busy highway. Here is the problem, at least once a practice, the PA starts picking up truckers on their CB radios. I'm sure that they are running illegal high powered units, but nothing I can do about that. So my question is, what's causing this, and how I can correct this? It's not the mics or the cables, does it when they are off and unplugged.
Any help with this would be most appreciated.
 
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Probably nothing you can do about a problem like that except get a different powered mixer. Or move to a different practice location.

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Wayne A. Pflughaupt


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I know the Behringer isn't the greatest, just read an article about Ferrite Beads on the speaker wires and power cord to block RF from coming through, also suggested to not coil extra wire as it creates an antenna, which makes sense, cause when we practice on my stage, out in my backyard sometimes, I don't recall it happening, hopefully the beads will work
 
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