Hi dboomer,

I use the strat very often with a cable (all the time in the studio, rehearsals and solo gigs) and have never had an issue except when the battery has gotten low (1 time).  So, yes, the Ghost system uses a battery, but the battery lasts a good 6 months for my use, and I change it more often than that.  So if you are wondering whether a weak battery in the strat is the issue, I am sure that I've had the issue more than once when the strat had a new battery in it. Regarding the Ghost jack configuration, the MIDI signal is routed to a 13 pin jack that I'm never using when I have the wireless issue.  The 1/4" jack is wired so that if you use a mono plug both the mag pickups and the piezo (acoustic) signal go down the cable summed.  If a stereo 1/4" plug is used, the two signals (mag versus piezo) are split off.  Since the Ghost install, the mag pickups won't work without the battery, so somehow both signals must be going through the Ghost's "acoustiphonic" preamp.  Yes, I'm using the factory input cable that came with the transmitter.  I doubt that it matters, but it is extremely rare that I use the piezo in situations where I'm using the wireless, and the problem has always occured when I'm using the mag pickups only (probably because I'm using them 99% of the time with the wireless).  There is a 3 position switch for Mag/Piezo/Both that I (almost) always have in the Mag position, and a second Midi/Pickups/Both switch that I always have in the Pickups postion when the problem occurs.

Let me be clear that although I haven't had the issue with my Martin, I have only done brief testing with the Martin.  I never use the wireless with my Martin at a performance.  I can spend more time trying it with the Martin to see if I can get it to happen with that guitar.  Perhaps what I should do is try to get it to happen with the strat, and when it does unplug it from the strat and plug it into the Martin to see if the problem continues?

I will say this, I replaced the power supply for the receiver a while back hoping that might have been the issue.  After that, I recorded a loop on a Jazzman looper and let the thing run for a couple of hours and I didn't catch the wireless having a problem.  Of course it could have had the problem and come out of it, without me hearing it, as I didn't babysit it the whole time.  My point though is, in that case the wireless was connected to the Jamman rather than the strat, so possibly the strat does have something to do with it (as much as I hope it doesn't).

Bill

Yes, aren't intermittent problems wonderful?  They'll never happen when you want them to.

Yes, I'm using the standard, factory, mono, TS input cable that came with the transmitter.

Had perfect tone today right up to when the transmitter battery died.  Argh!  :-)

Here's another question, which just occurred to me; I have a video panel that I have mounted to a music stand that I use for electronic chord sheets and lyrics (I know, I'm getting old) with the band that I use the wireless with.  It's actually an electronic photo frame what I wired a footswitch into to advance from one song to the next.  Any idea whether something like that may cause interference?  The thing that gets me about this issue is that once it happens, I can't get it to go away (by moving around, changing settings on the guitar, toggling power on the amp, etc) until I either power down the transmitter or switch channels, so interference from something like that the video panel seems unlikely (to an uneducated guy like me anyway).  Plus when I'm at my mic, I'm a consistent distance from it all night.