Abstract: An arrangement for effectively excluding the effects of disturbance pulses in the operation of an infra-red remote control system (e.g., for channel switching of a television receiver) is described. Facilities are provided on the transmitting side of the remote control arrangement for encoding the pulse interval of a chain of pulses derived from a quartz crystal-controlled oscillator with the intelligence contained in a selected one of a plurality of command signals for the channel switching function. The resulting encoded pulses are converted into a form suitable for modulating a high-frequency chain of pulses from the same oscillator so that the infra-red transmitter emits intelligence in extremely short-duration bursts of energy.