Why Can I Hear US Radio on my PC Speakers?

[Cobra]

When i turn down the volume completely on my PC speakers it seems to pick up as US radio station (bare in mind i live in the UK). Whats that about? Im guessing its American due to the accent and the constant talks of elections!

Is there a wire in the speakers that with be acting as an aerial or something? Its quite creepy, i thought i was going mad to start with..."I swear i can hear voices!"  ;D

[a1]

It's the aliens i tell ya. Do you have fillings in your teeth and live by electric wires? :-?

[Wing Nut]

That's all of the subliminal messaging that our government put out to keep us under control.  If you could hear it better, you would hear things like 'Don't Think' and 'Pay Taxes' and 'Repeal the 22nd Amendment!'

Listen a bit longer and you'll hear things like 'Eat those crappy McRib sandwiches that McDonald's rolls out twice a year...'  

[Dr.bob7]

Hello im in with the CIA *holds up nueralizer from men in black) (not sure if that came out in europe)

[Groundbound1]

Do you live near a major airport?

[expat]

Hello im in with the CIA *holds up nueralizer from men in black) (not sure if that came out in europe)

I would have asked if you had seen it in Castle Rock, Colorado before I asked if it was released in Europe



As to the original question...........you are probably picking up the in flight entertainment channel the crew use during slack periods on Aurora test flights. Probably a lose wire to earth causing it.

Matt

[Dr.bob7]

Hello im in with the CIA *holds up nueralizer from men in black) (not sure if that came out in europe)

I would have asked if you had seen it in Castle Rock, Colorado before I asked if it was released in Europe



As to the original question...........you are probably picking up the in flight entertainment channel the crew use during slack periods on Aurora test flights. Probably a lose wire to earth causing it.

Matt

Castle Rock has 42,000 people in it lol................

[expat]

Hello im in with the CIA *holds up nueralizer from men in black) (not sure if that came out in europe)

I would have asked if you had seen it in Castle Rock, Colorado before I asked if it was released in Europe



As to the original question...........you are probably picking up the in flight entertainment channel the crew use during slack periods on Aurora test flights. Probably a lose wire to earth causing it.

Matt

Castle Rock has 42,000 people in it lol................

And Europe, 800 million

Matt

[Cobra]

LOL

No I don't live particularly close to an airport, about 5 miles anyway...

Turns out its actually Polish Radio, but its all in English...! Would it be some local pirate station or something??

[Groundbound1]

Could be, some renagade radio bandit pushing a few thousand watts.

[TSC.]

Hello im in with the CIA *holds up nueralizer from men in black) (not sure if that came out in europe)

It did come out in Europe, but for some reason we can't remember it.

8-)

TSC.

[Alejandro Rhodes]

Simple answer, Some point of audio or any elelectronic devise are sensitive to static.
some times this point are too sensitive and are too open (something is working as antena)and you can pic up radio waves,the most common is in AM (amplituded Modulated ) in random

there used to be a devise NON batteries in the 60's where you could plug like an earspeaker into any wirefense from a farm or anywere made of steel and pic up radio thru this devices ..

[Groundbound1]

there used to be a devise NON batteries in the 60's where you could plug like an earspeaker into any wirefense from a farm or anywere made of steel and pic up radio thru this devices ..

Crystal radio sets. I made one when I was just a little simmer. (Thought it was magic  ;D )

[Brett_Henderson]

Simple answer, Some point of audio or any elelectronic devise are sensitive to static.
some times this point are too sensitive and are too open (something is working as antena)and you can pic up radio waves,the most common is in AM (amplituded Modulated ) in random

there used to be a devise NON batteries in the 60's where you could plug like an earspeaker into any wirefense from a farm or anywere made of steel and pic up radio thru this devices ..

Correct.. by the nature of "amplitude modulation", there are changes in electrical potential (above and beyond the changes that make it a radio signal in the first place)(frequencies that high might as well be direct current whan it comes to audio signals).

A conductor on a circuit board.. or a simple wire (even the wires running to the speakers themselves (especially if they're coiled somewhere).. or more likely, a component on the circuit board (like a coil or transformer) can have these changes in potential "induce" a voltage drop across them...

[RitterKreuz]

the intercom system in my dads house used to pick up CB radio conversations and... occasionally... if you were lucky.... cordless phone sex  ;D