I have one of those Magic Box Carplay adapters that connects my phone to my car wirelessly, for Carplay, or else I'd have to use a cable.

I've noticed over the past several months that everytime I enter the same certain locations, one particular neighborhood, one particular intersection, my signal goes crazy and my car drops my phone connection.

It's very location specific, and repeatable.

Is this a sign of a signal blocker or something in the area causing significant interference with radio signals of that certain frequency?

I'm curious the exact cause of this, but it happens on my AAWireless, my Motorola MA-1, and my girlfriend's new car with wireless Carplay built into it. And it's all in the same spots in different cities between all the devices.

Great Spaceballs references

Since it's already connected, it should be 2.4 or 5Ghz signals. AI says it could be one of these…

Cell towers with high RF output
Power substations or large transmission lines
Industrial buildings with heavy electrical equipment
Hospitals, campuses, or government facilities
Large retail centers with dense Wi-Fi deployments
Traffic intersections with smart-signal systems

tfunk02 said:

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Since it's already connected, it should be 2.4 or 5Ghz signals. AI says it could be one of these…

Cell towers with high RF output
Power substations or large transmission lines
Industrial buildings with heavy electrical equipment
Hospitals, campuses, or government facilities
Large retail centers with dense Wi-Fi deployments
Traffic intersections with smart-signal systems

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Especially the short towers.

The three areas where it primarily occurs for me are pretty rural compared to those listed sites.
There's a couple of short towers and two or three tall radio towers in sight lines though

Kind of related, but there's an intersection on my way home from work that causes my GPS to freak out. Waze on my iPhone rarely has issues. But for some reason when I turn at this intersection it immediately jumps a street or two over and takes a half mile to correct itself.

Normally I would blow it off as a poor signal, or randomness when switching between towers, if it didn't happen ever single day.

This happens to me as well - most noticeably 59N inbound as I approach the beltway from Sugar Land. And another pocket around Bissonnet. Definitely nothing rural about it and no heavy industry unless car dealerships count. Cel signal remains fine, but it kills and usually resets my BT Android Auto adapter every time.