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Here's my odd story. Years ago, my wife and I were sleeping over at my parents house and we were awoken by garbled conversation from the clock radio. I sleepily
by jbuzbee 9y ago
Here's my odd story. Years ago, my wife and I were sleeping over at my parents house and we were awoken by garbled conversation from the clock radio. I sleepily checked it out and saw that the radio was turned off. Thinking that the on/off switch was broken, I just unplugged it. The garbled conversation continued. At this point I wondered if my parents house was built on top of an ancient burial ground...
Talking to my father in the morning, he indicated that his neighbor had taken up Ham radio and he was having to put filters on various devices to reduce interference. To this day, I wonder if his spotty wifi in the house is related to his neighbor turning his system...
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- mindcrime 9y agoIt seems like a bit of a stretch, but in theory - depending on the details of the radio, and the power being emitted by the neighbor's station - you might be able to get some audio from a "powered off" radio. Maybe it's doing something like what happens when a crystal radio[1] absorbs enough power inductively to generate its audio. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_radio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_radio
- TeMPOraL 9y agoI've heard stories of unplugged loudspeakers turning into AM radios with enough power pumped into the air, so there's that too.
- digi_owl 9y agoAM radio has all kinds of "fun" properties. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHSuInSkHtA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHSuInSkHtA Listening to the tranmission using the arc the tower generates to ground!
- dredmorbius 9y agoCan confirm.
- flomo 9y agoSomething like this happened when I was a kid and it scared the heck out of me. Suddenly there was this loud garbled voice booming from the stereo speakers. I thought it was the devil or something. Turned out to be the radio enthusiast who lived next door. There was a big antenna in their backyard, so they were probably broadcasting with some power. Plus my dad had the whole Hi-Fi rigged up with lamp cords. I knew someone who lived two blocks from a radio station, and they would get interference everywhere, there would be staticky top 40 music coming from the phones, from clock radios, from the stereo. It would come and go. They would complain, the radio station would fix something, but in a few months it would be back.
- EADGBE 9y ago> Plus my dad had the whole Hi-Fi rigged up with lamp cords. He was probably onto something. http://www.zdnet.com/article/coat-hanger-wire-is-just-as-good-as-a-high-quality-speaker-cable/ http://www.zdnet.com/article/coat-hanger-wire-is-just-as-goo...