Sweetwater Sales Engineer Jeff Barnett is a respected wireless microphone expert, and, luckily for all of us, he has compiled a nice list of great tips for getting the most from your wireless system. We’ll be bringing you these tips over the next few weeks. Thanks Jeff!
#1 — The most common cause of RF dropouts is improper antenna placement. Line of sight should be maintained between the antennas and the transmitters. If that’s not possible in your rack, the antennas should be mounted away from the receivers, possibly up on a wall, on a balcony rail, from the ceiling, or in another location that allows line-of-sight placement.