TV Interference

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On a very irreguar basis, we have bad interference with over-the-air braodcast Channel 3 video (rarely audio). Only Channel 3. It is absent for weeks or months, then comes back for a few hours -- or a few days.

I have turned off the household power at the main, and the interference shows up when running a TV on battery power. So I am pretty sure someone in the area is running something that is sending out "radio waves."

Does anyone have any idea how I might detect where this is originating? (I see Germans trying to locate the underground's radio in occupied Europe.)

Not nearly as important as many requests here, but a darned irritating problem.

Of course, the wife's favorite programs are on Channel 3.
 
Years ago, My dad was having the same trouble as well as the neighbors, the guy behind him had put up a shortwave antenna, you could check around ?
 
carry a small DC TV around the hood, looking for the interference to get better/worse?
 
Great ideas. I find that Channel 3 broadcats at 61.25 MHz, so I know where to tune an AM radio to bring in the signal.

$#@&%!! After lasting for nearly 20 straight hours, it has come and gone six times in the last fifteen minutes.
 
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