Offset coils on Crawlers?

[Ratrod]

I've been playing my Crawler equipped Yamaha alot lately. And I've been playing them LOUD! :twisted:

In the proces I'm recieving a russian radio station. (No good music, just talking)

I've read on the forum that the VHII has the same problem due to the offset coils. So does the Crawler have these too or is there something else going on?

[Steve-Mr Pig 2U]

I doubt it; the off set in the crawler is quite small. I used to pickup Russian radio through my bass amp.... I never found out why!

[Miracle Man Matt]

Ha Ha that is funny... picking up a russian radio station on your guitar...

we could get inspriration for cool High-gain PU names from russian eg...

Klashnikopvv

dfsdvo,,'uiptygp....stan   (made by mashing hand on keyboard makes perfect russian names)  :twisted:

MMM

[jt]

:D That`s funny i`ve got a Russian mate that keeps picking up Brian Setzer type riffing on his Radio  :P

 :lol:  :lol:

 :D  8)

[Ratrod]

:lol:  :lol:

I guess I just have to live with it then.

I guess it's a pirate station or something, those are usually on weird frequencies. :?

[Bainzy]

reminds me of Nigel Tufnel's wireless system in Spinal Tap  :lol:

[HJM]

I'd go over the grounding Ratrod, there could be a problem there that would cause this fault. At least you don't live in New York...

[Ratrod]

I think you have a point there, HJM. I'll check it out.

[Tim]

Absolutley.............the offset in Crawlers wouldn't allow them to act in that way..............it's a grounding issue I think Ratty!

[Ratrod]

I think I can narrow it down to the Tube Factor. The adapter isn't earthed. The interfierence stops when I switch it off. Normally it doesn't happen but there's an atmospheric depression too.

[_tom_]

I think I can narrow it down to the Tube Factor. The adapter isn't earthed. The interfierence stops when I switch it off. Normally it doesn't happen but there's an atmospheric depression too.

If ya like, I'll take that Tube Factor off your hands  

[Jagwyre]

I still pick up radio stations on high gain amp models on my Tonelab SE, and it is due to a bad capacitor on the board.  Might want to check message boards on each of your other equipment items, manufacturers usually pretend nothing is wrong like Vox did on the tonelabs.  Eventually they put a warranty bulletin out, but only to dealers and they never said dick about it on their websites.  Gonna get it fixed when I get the time.  Never had pickups pickup up radio before, not sure if that's possible...

[Ratrod]

Thanks for the tips. I'll bear with it for the time being. If it still picks up radio transmissions when the weather has cleared up, I'll have the thing checked out.

[Bob Johnson]

Don't want to sound pedantic but any amp can pick up radio signals, all it needs is something upstream to filter the thousands of radio frequencies that are all aroud us.. A coily lead or as previously mentioned a dodgy cap in the pre amp can do this. The tuner in a radio is basically a variable condensor  and coily leads are really good at substituting for VC's as the spring steel coil built into them can act as a tunable antena, the further you stretch it the longer the wave length (lower the frquency) of RFI it picks up. Pickups are the last thing you should look at for picking up radio frequencies unless it's VHF or SHF where the wave length is close to or a direct multiple of the major axis of the pickup coil. The point being you won't get VHF from Russia unless it's under extremely exceptional climatic conditions

[Ratrod]

I'll experiment some more tomorrow. (Different guitars, different overdrives etc.)

It sounds like russian but it could also be polish, bosnian or whatever.