@hhouter
Yes, this was my personal experience. I usually wear watches on left hand and with my scuba configuration, POD is on the right side. First dive in a pool with left/right configuration resulted in multiple disconnects.
After changing to right/right configuration, I did not notice any distinct disconnects (either in pool or outdoors). Worked great for like 10-15 dives, until POD suddenly did not wake up at all (probably not related to weak POD/watch connection, still trying to get it working again).
ps. since left is usually reserved for physical pressure gauge, we don’t have any other option, but to put POD to the right side and depending on how low you put your tank, POD needs to penetrate neck or even spine area in cross pattern configuration.
pps. max distance for POD/Watch is 1,5m (by manual documents for connecting without obstacles), POD distance is like ~50cm to neck area, so it’s 1/3 of max theoretical distance, so the only option is to eliminate as much resistance for signal as possible.