That is pretty major interference. My guess is shielding won’t be effective. You cannot block the SL antenna if it is going to work and the SS antenna already has shielding (aka ground plane) in the roof of the cabin. One possibility is there is an alternative ground plane for the SS antenna that removes it from the current ground plane and puts in a new one between the headliner and the roof line. If you insulate the screws of the SS antenna with heat shrink it removes the lightening mesh from the ground plane equation and that has solved strike errors in many planes (mine is one of them).
I’ts unlikely that would be effective, the purpose of a spherics device is to detect radio waves (sferics) emitted by lightning, they are notoriously sensitive to any electromagnetic interference.
If the Stormscope is providing valuable information for a particular phase of flight, the best practice would be to turn off the Starlink until clear of the convective weather.
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I completely agree Hans. What is interesting is not all folks are reporting this so an alternative ground plane MAY help. Who knows the unique stuff in our composite planes that are well known to be fussy about this stuff. My wingtip SL installation does not irritate the SS.
Well, I can get better Weather and Lightning information via the Internet. So I would probably rather deactivate the Stormscope …and use it only if I was close to TS.
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Funny my SL interferes at the 7-8 o’clock position
I just turn of storm scope… I think FF works much better on internet vs ADSB or XM
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Mine does the same with or without Starlink… LOL
i have it OFF
As a point of reference, here are side-by-side depictions of the weather from ADS-B via GTX-345/Garmin 760 vs. Foreflight/Starlink on classic radar setting. The SL was right.
Please excuse the Bonanza picture-I still own half and still enjoy an occasional trip in it. Kind of like jumping in a late 60s muscle car and going for a drive. It doesn’t make a lot of sense but I like it and the partnership.
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Thanks for sharing. Which radar layer were you using in ForeFlight?
It was the classic layer in FF.
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Thanks - which was right. No rain at KXNA in FF.
Just another thank you to this awesome community for the continued support of our little Starlink mount project — the joy and confidence I’ve seen grow in my fourth grader Kennedy has been so fun to watch. She even came home from school last week talking about studying Henry Ford, so we of course needed to apply assembly line procedures 
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Looks great!
That’s awesome!
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Oops deleted this response as I don’t know what I’m doing re: reply by email…
I would also inspect the Stormscope antenna and cables for corrosion. Been there done that. Not with a Starlink but with other transmitters interfering with Stormscope.
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@ErikGun just a side comment, after a Starlink update, the #14 Ecoflow stopped working via the USB Outlet… it only works with the 120V adapter and I guess (Haven’t tried it) with the Cigarette Receptacle…
Just a quick note for those shopping for batteries…
It’s weird that a Starlink update would have any effect on the USB Chip.
It would make sense after an ecoflow update.
Cigarette lighter adapter is surely to work. That is straight DC without any “smarts”.
This is the reason I have always recommend Stright DC wiring, the ecoflow, jackery, anker batteries with these outlets just put 12volt on the line, just the same.
indeed is weird… but it happened as soon as I updated the SL… there is one other poster that said same thing. anyhow, trying to save trouble to someone…
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Thank you Eric for the concise info, Brad for designing the mount and CJ Devries for making it available so easily.
Starlink works beautifully!!
Love this community!
Thanks all
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