wy does my neighbour starting up and driving her car in the rd by my house knock out the tv picture???

[misdee]

she drives a red ford ka. everytime she starts it, my tv picture goes funny, sometimes it completly knocks it out. why?

That's bizarre misdee. I have no idea why that would happen. Is it just your neighbour's car, or do other cars cause it as well?

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the aerial is fine. was fitted a few months ago. its just her car thaT DOES IT.

Does she have anything in her car that might broadcast a signal - an automatic gate opener or a navigation system (actually I'm not sure that they do broadcast) or a security tracking device? It could be that it happens to broadcast on the same frequency as the tv signal.

i have no idea. it could have. just pretty annoying and always happens at a cruicial part ina fuilm/soap/ big brother etc.

It'll be her radio finding the signal - my car does it to my neighbours tv - and if she is on her cordless phone, she picks up my radio on it!!! I don't switch it on till I have driven down the road a bit

No idea- but I've just had a huge row in comet as my new video (had it for 2 weeks) switches off the TV every time a change is made on it. It is driving me up the wall.

Comet are crap don't go there. It's also chewed up tapes but becuase it didn't do it in the store they said no fault had been "proved" so they wouldn't refund. They said they would send an engineer out but if he couldn't find a fault then I would have to pay a call out charge. I also explained that I can't have an engineer in the house until Sept as my autistic son would put his head through the window if someone came in and started stopping and starting the video. They said tough basically (curry's have always been good at working round the ds1 problem when they've had to fix the hoover).

So stroppy letter has gone off. SOrry bit of an OT rant but I feel better now So don't go to Comet other than to price match.

This is the effect of electrical pulses from the car engine. All cars should be fitted with supressors to stop interferance with radios, TVs etc
used to be a real problem way back but all cars, except your neighbours are fitted as standard nowdays. If you mention it to them they may get it done under warranty. Some lawnmowers have the same effect.
Place your TV in a Faraday cage and problem will be eliminated!