Weather station paging interference

[Keith 944]

Originally Posted by SST159

Thanks Mike,
I too have the same set up.
I usually bring both phone and pager to the lanes.
I should stick with just the phone.

It would be nice to know what?s causing this issue?
When I?m at Lebanon, we can switch some stuff around from yours to mine and see if it changes anything

[SST159]

Searching for Gremlins. LOL
Sure why not if we have the time.
Thanks

[Dewdlebug]

Over the last few years I've have similar scrambled pages, or no page at all, but mostly at Nat Events. I too reached out to Altalab and was informed that someone was over-powering my little 5 watt transmitter inside my unit. They suggested that I move my antenna location to see if it would help. My antenna is permanently mounted to the top of my trailer but I had a spare antenna from an old Performaire with a 25' cable which I was able to connect and after moving it in what seemed to be 100 different locations, 6" at a time, I finally found a sweet spot and got back in business. It was easy to see when I was being "jammed" by watching the red light on the front of the Altalab base unit. When it stays on constantly you're not getting out.
Altalab said that its more prominent at Nat events. I've seen it where we run TT on Thursdays with no issues only to have NHRA.TV set up all their bs and then there goes the signal. I've thought about moving to a text system but I've seen the cell service at Nats so bad before that you can't get through at all on a phone, text or otherwise.

[Lenny5160_v2]

Originally Posted by Dewdlebug

Over the last few years I've have similar scrambled pages, or no page at all, but mostly at Nat Events. I too reached out to Altalab and was informed that someone was over-powering my little 5 watt transmitter inside my unit. They suggested that I move my antenna location to see if it would help. My antenna is permanently mounted to the top of my trailer but I had a spare antenna from an old Performaire with a 25' cable which I was able to connect and after moving it in what seemed to be 100 different locations, 6" at a time, I finally found a sweet spot and got back in business. It was easy to see when I was being "jammed" by watching the red light on the front of the Altalab base unit. When it stays on constantly you're not getting out.
Altalab said that its more prominent at Nat events. I've seen it where we run TT on Thursdays with no issues only to have NHRA.TV set up all their bs and then there goes the signal. I've thought about moving to a text system but I've seen the cell service at Nats so bad before that you can't get through at all on a phone, text or otherwise.

Ray, have you ever noticed that your prediction pages will be incomplete or garbled, but the pages that contain only weather information sent from the Altalab unit will usually be complete?

That's something I have noticed.

[SST159]

Tony,
That is exactly what happens to mine.
Fortunately the texting works for me so I will stick with that.
Only issue I have with texting is that after I shut everything down and go home, I keep getting prediction texts for sometimes days and then it finally stops.
Pretty weird.

[Lenny5160_v2]

Originally Posted by SST159

Tony,
That is exactly what happens to mine.
Fortunately the texting works for me so I will stick with that.
Only issue I have with texting is that after I shut everything down and go home, I keep getting prediction texts for sometimes days and then it finally stops.
Pretty weird.

I assume that the texts coming in later are "missed" texts from race day?

I would guess the prediction texts are sent through a similar system that NHRA uses to send updates during events. Those types of messages (through the internet and not phone-to-phone) are sometimes held up by phone companies as potential spam.

[Keith 944]

Originally Posted by SST159

Tony,
That is exactly what happens to mine.
Fortunately the texting works for me so I will stick with that.
Only issue I have with texting is that after I shut everything down and go home, I keep getting prediction texts for sometimes days and then it finally stops.
Pretty weird.

Come see me at Lebanon I want to show you something

[SST159]

Will do.