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Or GabeN is 'loominati?

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It's 100% normal, and hard to get rid of because of the imperfect nature of any consumer products. It could be your mouse plugged in, it could be your house wiring, it could be anything.

 

Where I live, anything that has more than a few feet of wire, and an amp of some sort, will pick up radio signals unless it is a high quality unit. 

 

Also, like @Delons, I am a Ham radio operator. I transmit from my house occasionally, and need to turn off all cheap speaker systems or they buzz horrendously and I can hear myself talking or sending signals. 

 

When you plugged in you speakers, you touched the pins on the jack. Part of that jack is grounded, and at that point, you have connected to a wire that goes from that jack, all around your house, and potentially to your street power poles (depending on your system and whatnot). That center pin (tip)  is supposed to be connected to the center portion of the receptical. The ring (ground) of the 3.5mm is supposed to be connected to the secondary, and then one more for the ground. When those are all mixed up, you are breaking how the system is designed to be used, and introducing a path for interference (Electro-Magnetic radio waves). 

 

The ground on your system is connected, even to your audio, no matter how separate. So, speaker ground > mobo ground> case ground> VGA cable ground> monitor ground>monitor AC socket ground> then the grounds of every single thing plugged in at your house. So Tada, a giant antenna. 


 

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I have the logitech x-530 and they pick up radio signals sometimes its done it for almost as long as I have had them and thats around 10 years. Nothing to worry about.

Seems to be a normal problem that people have:

http://www.tomsguide.com/forum/57663-6-logitech-picking-radio-stations

 

Though i have never heard of this before, it's a normal thing. there is no reason to worry OP.

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I assure you it was real, i could try it again i guess but I have unplugged and plugged my computer back in before that and it never happened.

 

Well for it to be qualified as scientific and well sound, you need to reproduce it otherwise its a one off/ghost in the machine/hoax.

 

Look up scientific method.

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Well for it to be qualified as scientific and well sound, you need to reproduce it otherwise its a one off/ghost in the machine/hoax.

 

Look up scientific method.

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This has actually happened to me twice. But never with computer stuff and strangely enough, both times I picked up NPR.

 

The first time was with some camera gear. I was doing some experimenting with connecting a MIDI controller to my camera's audio input just to goof around and although I could hear anything while I was recording, when playing it back, I could hear public radio. Very strange.

 

Another time was with an amp I used to have. If you turned the volume up super loud, but with no sound going through it, you could faintly hear NPR. Very very weird.

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Wait, Maybe he isnt.

 

 

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Ok so I was changing my CPU cooler yesterday and when I was plugging all of the cables back into the computer when i was startled by someone talking, it was right after i plugged my speakers in. At first I thought there was something playing on my computer on start-up for some weird reason, but then I realized that everything was plugged in but my psu. I could clearly hear the guy talking and what he was saying like a well-tuned radio (he was talking about terrorism). I must have somehow been picking up a radio signal. Is this a crazy coincidence or does this happen often? Does anybody have a good explanation for this?

 

Thaaat. Does not sound possible.

 

I didn't think so either

i had it once before too, also with logitech speakers, but when i improved my cablemanagement it was jsut gone

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Its possible with unshielded speakers. Try putting your cellphone next to the speakers, every so often you can hear the 'pings' from the towers to the cell phone and vice versa.

 

I am also an radio ameature (KJ6ACR), and sometimes you do end up hearing weird stories, eg: a guy was doing CW and a car alarm (or klakson) was going off in the same intervals as his CW signal he was transmitting. 

Sometimes weird things do happen with radio, especially if you find out that a particular device has a harmonic frequency that it picks up.

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i had it once before too, also with logitech speakers, but when i improved my cablemanagement it was jsut gone

it actually makes a hell of a lot of sense.

my last mp3 player said ''plug in headphones to use as fm radio antenna'' dependiing on whether or not they were earbuds or otherwise my signal strength would vary.

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I have a similar thing but only when I turn my speakers of at the knob not the wall, so you're not mad.

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I wonder what radio station/host he picked up.

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I have the logitech x-530 and they pick up radio signals sometimes its done it for almost as long as I have had them and thats around 10 years. Nothing to worry about.

yup mine did the same 

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I remember doing something reversed.

 

As a kid I always experimented with a taperecorder with microphone. One day, I noticed I could hear myself on the radio if I switched it to a unused frequency, like 87.0MHz FM

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