Well by moving the radio around, both ballasts are doing the same thing, and if I move the wire from ballast to far end of tube, towards the radio, this increases the interference, but the greatest interference is with the radio right against the ballast.
The ballast is Philips and says "Made in Poland" on the case.
Something I don't yet understand. How does a ferrite core stop the radiating of high frequency signals from a wire without attenuating the signal in the wire ?
Simon.