I heard the radio on my headphones \ VOGONS

I heard the radio on my headphones

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First post, by eL_PuSHeR

Posted on 2008-07-23, 22:54

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I don't know what the hell is happening. I have noticed that when I put my headphones on, I hear A RADIO with people talking (in the background with very low volume). I don't have radio or radio tuner on my PC. WTF?

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Reply 1 of 4, by Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman

Posted on 2008-07-23, 23:26

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Your headphone cable inadvertently catches radio waves. It happens sometimes, especially when the cable is thin.

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Reply 2 of 4, by 5u3

Posted on 2008-07-24, 00:17

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This happens quite often with unshielded amplifiers.
Once I built a ghetto amplifier out of an AT PSU and a car amp salvaged from the dump. It was impossible to enjoy laid-back music with this thing, because in the background there was always someone blathering along in languages I could not identify. It caught AM radio stations at random, sometimes several at once.