"Ron" wrote in message
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Gnack Nol wrote:
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 02:11:00 -0800, Ron wrote:

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I read somewhere that something vaguely similar happened here in
Portland about thirty years ago when an organ at some local church
started picking up weird signals, but this is a little *too* weird. ;-
(

Ron

It most likely the recorder was picking up stray signals from some
transmitter in your vicinity.

As for the repeated hello's the person was likely testing his transmitter
on an open air connection.

Since CB's arent licensed nor required to be hooked to an outdoor antenna
anyone even your next door neighbor could be the culprit and it's not
necessarily a fixed station it could be someone with an Illegal high
power
mobile amplifier who was close enough to overload your recorder.

The signal didn't have to enter by the microphone either it could have
found a corroded or loose connection within the amplifier assembly and
been strong enough to obliterate your input. One highly likely spot is
the
play /record switch which is very subject to poor contacts and corrosion.

Okay... But why this one word, this one time, in years of using of the
tape recorder at this current location? 'Sorry, but this is a little
too much like the explanations I have gotten for a couple incidents of
SLI (street light interference): credible, but not totally satisfying.
But then I suppose there are a lot things like that in the world...

Ron


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"Logic is the science of being wrong with certainty."

- Ketterling's Law -

How long can this go on for? I explained carefully *why* this "one word" and
several of us have explained various mechanisms by which the recording could
have occured. Asking why it happened on this one occasion out of years,
given the number of variables in play such as mobile operation, station
maybe a mile away, beam antenna heading at the time it happened, maybe a
'new' piece of kit to whomever was using it, maybe a poorly loaded / tuned
antenna giving rise to all manner of spurii from the transmitter, maybe a
new licensee just setting up his station, maybe someone newly moved-in,
maybe an ex-CBer who's just gone active again after his wife left him and so
on, is frankly a bit silly really. It's like asking why, having crossed a
certain road successfully every day for years, on this particular day, you
got hit by a car ...

If you want a definitive answer to this episode, there just isn't one.
Merely a bunch of likely scenarios. Or a ghost in your recorder.

Arfa