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Radio won't stop playing Christmas music
Jimmy wrote:
(Mark Zenier) wrote: William Sommerwerck wrote: A radio cannot play when it's switched off. You can't pick up enough energy If "off" is really "off", and not "on, but waiting for the remote control". Yes, this radio has "soft" on-off buttons (momentary switches on a circuit board). Also, the noise stops when I unplug the radio. Jimmy |
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Radio won't stop playing Christmas music
Jimmy wrote:
Jimmy wrote: (Mark Zenier) wrote: William Sommerwerck wrote: A radio cannot play when it's switched off. You can't pick up enough energy If "off" is really "off", and not "on, but waiting for the remote control". Yes, this radio has "soft" on-off buttons (momentary switches on a circuit board). Also, the noise stops when I unplug the radio. Jimmy Get a 1:1 transformer and isolate the power with that.. That will get red of the ground.. Shouldn't effect reception that bad.. The transformer will act as a filter. Another trick you can do that may work, at radio shack, they sell a iron core you can wrap your electrical wire around. This may do the trick, or try coiling your cord up now with something iron in the coil. Jamie. |
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Jamie t wrote:
Get a 1:1 transformer and isolate the power with that.. That will get red of the ground.. Shouldn't effect reception that bad.. The * transformer will act as a filter. * *Another trick you can do that may work, at radio shack, they sell a * iron core you can wrap your electrical wire around. This may do the trick, or try coiling your cord up now with something iron in the coil. Thanks, but I'd need a more detailed explanation. What do you think the problem is? How would these two proposed solutions deal with it? And where would the 1:1 transformer go -- on the incoming AC power cord? Jimmy |
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William Sommerwerck wrote: The only place I saw that was worse was the VOA Bethany plant (Morrow Ohio) with 10, 50 KW HF transmitters on various short wave bands. You could hold a fluorescent lamp inside the facility and it would light from stray RF. Michael, I know you well enough to know you almost know what you're talking about, and you're /not/ a liar, but I find that hard to believe. How could the field strength be high enough to ionize the gas without also ionizing one's brain (or other bodily parts)? The rf voltage is developed over the length of the lamp. The facility was built during W.W.II, and was in the middle of an upgrade when I visited. They had a small screend RF tight chamber for some repairs, but the control room and engineering areas were being updated and included sheilding. This was around the start of 1970 and they were replacing the original '40s hardware. The original transmitters had large windows in the doors, and other 'features' that were no longer used in broadcasting. You do know that there were a number of lawsuits over brain cancer in broadcast & microwave communications engineers over the years? -- For the last time: I am not a mad scientist, I'm just a very ticked off scientist!!! |
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Radio won't stop playing Christmas music
Jeff Liebermann wrote: On Sun, 26 Dec 2010 06:15:48 -0500, "Michael A. Terrell" wrote: Jeff Liebermann wrote: On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 22:22:45 -0800 (PST), Jimmy wrote: When I turn the radio on, I hear several stations at once if it's switched to FM. It works reasonably well on AM. It's not coming from the radio. It's coming from the fillings in your teeth. http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/fillings.asp To make an FM ratio detector or discriminator, you need two diodes and therefore two fillings, probably on each side of your mouth. If you've had recent dental work, this is a possibility. Try gargling with something alkaline and see if the music goes away. Snopes has never heard of 'Slope Detection'? Slope detection works with some sort of frequency to amplitude conversion contrivance. That might be possible if Jimmy's mouth or head were a fairly high Q resonant cavity with the FM station on the filter skirts. If true, he should be able to open and close his mouth to affect the tuning. Perhaps lining the inside (or outside) of the mouth, or possibly the head, with aluminium foil might improve the Q and therefore the selectivity. Inserting a megaphone in the mouth might be useful for having others share the experience. Resonant frequency of the human skull (about 400MHz): http://books.google.com/books?id=NNqCbnToEYYC&pg=PA97 Slope Detector: http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=V11hAAAAEBAJ Patented in 1929. Uses one or two diodes. More on "cavity" detector technology: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=367925 Jeff, I have used slope detection for FM for about 40 years. My Sadelco TVFSM had a built in audio monitor that was slope detection. You tuned to the aural carrier, and pushed the 'audio' button, then detuned it to hear the Aural signal. As long as the FM signal is wider than a tunable AM receiver's bandwidth, you can recover the modulation. -- For the last time: I am not a mad scientist, I'm just a very ticked off scientist!!! |
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Jimmy wrote:
Jamie t wrote: Get a 1:1 transformer and isolate the power with that.. That will get red of the ground.. Shouldn't effect reception that bad.. The transformer will act as a filter. Another trick you can do that may work, at radio shack, they sell a iron core you can wrap your electrical wire around. This may do the trick, or try coiling your cord up now with something iron in the coil. Thanks, but I'd need a more detailed explanation. What do you think the problem is? How would these two proposed solutions deal with it? And where would the 1:1 transformer go -- on the incoming AC power cord? Jimmy You obviously are getting RF (Radio Frequency) that your electrical cord is helping with, as ground point of the radial, maybe.. By taking the zip card (assume it is), and wrapping it around some form of iron or ferrous metals, it will give you what is called a common mode choke. Actually, you may be able to buy a noise filter from places like the shack that plugs into your outlet and then you plug the radio into that.. Some better types of power strips come with noise filters in them. You may want to check on that. http://www.smarthome.com/4845ACF/ACT...-Filter/p.aspx Something like the above.. |
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On Sun, 26 Dec 2010 05:29:45 -0800, "William Sommerwerck"
wrote: The only place I saw that was worse was the VOA Bethany plant (Morrow Ohio) with 10, 50 KW HF transmitters on various short wave bands. You could hold a fluorescent lamp inside the facility and it would light from stray RF. Michael, I know you well enough to know you almost know what you're talking about, and you're /not/ a liar, but I find that hard to believe. How could the field strength be high enough to ionize the gas without also ionizing one's brain (or other bodily parts)? The difference between those that know, and those that claim to know, is in the numbers. I dunno, let's do the math. Let's start with an analogy. The voltage difference between the ground and a passing lightning storm is about 120 volts/meter. Therefore, a 2 meter tall person would have about 240 volts DC between their head and their toes. Why are they not instantly electrocuted? Ben Franklin and his wet string kite experiment should have been fried with about 10 Kv. Connecting a wire between your head and foot does not throw a spark. Hint: http://en.wikipedia.orgwikiSky_voltage Let's grind the VOA transmitter numbers. I need a review of field strength calcs anyway. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_of_America Note that the field strength calcs do not require knowing the frequency. I'll assume 50kw, that transmitter building is about 600ft away from the antennas, and that the antennas about 6dB gain. At 3 meters (the FCC's favorite distance), the power density for an isotropic radiator is: Pd = Power / Surface-Area = Power/4*Pi*r2 and the field strength is: V/m = sqrt(377*Pd) = sqrt(377*Power/(4*PI*r^2)) = sqrt(377*Power/(36*Pi)) where 377 is the impedance of free space = 120*Pi Plugging in: V/m = sqrt(377 * Power/(36*Pi)) = sqrt(377 * 50*10^3watts / (36*Pi)) = 408 V/m at 3ft. 6dB gain is 4 times the power, and therefore 2 times the voltage. Power density varies with the square of the distance, but field strength is linear. So, at 600ft, the field strength is: V/m = 2 * 3/600 * 408 V/m = 4.1 V/m A 1 meter long fluorescent tube is not going to light up with 4 volts between the end terminals. However, if you hold onto one end, or attach some building wiring to one end, the antenna formed is much longer than the 1 meter tube, and picks up much more voltage. To light the lamp, one needs about 90v, which would require 22 meters of antenna wire. With just the fluorescent tube as an antenna, 90v can be achieved at: meters = 2 * 3m * 408 V/m / 90V = 27 meters By holding onto one end, raising the total length to about 3 meters it should light up at about 54 meters. The accuracy of such field strength calcs at HF frequencies are horrible. Ground conductivity, ground reflectivity, reflections, and other oddities can result in huge variations. I've seen corona discharge in the fog off the building rain gutters with a bootleg BCB transmitter, so I know that it's possible to generate considerable voltage across a conductor. I've also lit up fluorescent tubes on broadcast mountain tops, but not reliably. I had to pick my place carefully. More on field strength calcs: http://www.maxim-ic.com/app-notes/index.mvp/id/3621 http://www.maxim-ic.com/app-notes/index.mvp/id/3622 -- Jeff Liebermann 150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558 |
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On Sat, 25 Dec 2010 08:19:08 -0800 "William Sommerwerck"
wrote in Message id: : The 1950 ish console my parents had did pick up the local AM station with the radio off. There was no long antenna. I'm curious as to what the mechanism was... In this case, the station is FM. Hearing the signal would require slope detection, an implausible/unlikely occurrence. I remain highly suspicious, yea, even unto total disbelief. Call me crazy, but when I was a kid I could occasionally hear a local AM radio station in the springs of my boxspring/mattress. The antenna was about half a mile from my house. |
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"Jamie" t wrote in message ... Jimmy wrote: Jamie t wrote: Get a 1:1 transformer and isolate the power with that.. That will get red of the ground.. Shouldn't effect reception that bad.. The transformer will act as a filter. Another trick you can do that may work, at radio shack, they sell a iron core you can wrap your electrical wire around. This may do the trick, or try coiling your cord up now with something iron in the coil. Thanks, but I'd need a more detailed explanation. What do you think the problem is? How would these two proposed solutions deal with it? And where would the 1:1 transformer go -- on the incoming AC power cord? Jimmy You obviously are getting RF (Radio Frequency) that your electrical cord is helping with, as ground point of the radial, maybe.. By taking the zip card (assume it is), and wrapping it around some form of iron or ferrous metals, it will give you what is called a common mode choke. Actually, you may be able to buy a noise filter I'd have thought a ferrite ring would be better. A nice big ferrite ring can be had from the scanning yoke from a scrap CRT TV or monitor, some are cast as a solid ring but more often 2 halves held together with spring clips. You can put quite a few turns of mains lead through a ring that big. |
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*+- The 1950 ish console my parents had when I was young did pick up the *+-local AM station with the radio off. There was no long antenna. My uncle used to make radios that worked on navy ships off hot pipes with no electricity. THere also used to be such a design in my 1969 World Book Encyclopedia, too. - = - Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus, BioStrategist http://www.panix.com/~vjp2/vasos.htm http://www.facebook.com/vasjpan2 ---{Nothing herein constitutes advice. Everything fully disclaimed.}--- [Homeland Security means private firearms not lazy obstructive guards] [Urb sprawl confounds terror] [Phooey on GUI: Windows for subprime Bimbos] |
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I used to be able to hear local cab CB radios thru my closed stereo as the
cabs passed my house. I think if you have high enough power you can broadcast to speakers whose poeer is turned off. I seem to remember someone once played a gag and broadcast messages to someone he was trying to spook. - = - Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus, BioStrategist http://www.panix.com/~vjp2/vasos.htm http://www.facebook.com/vasjpan2 ---{Nothing herein constitutes advice. Everything fully disclaimed.}--- [Homeland Security means private firearms not lazy obstructive guards] [Urb sprawl confounds terror] [Phooey on GUI: Windows for subprime Bimbos] |
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Radio won't stop playing Christmas music
Some have argued the Biblical Ark of Covenant was in fact designed
to receieve radio signals. - = - Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus, BioStrategist http://www.panix.com/~vjp2/vasos.htm http://www.facebook.com/vasjpan2 ---{Nothing herein constitutes advice. Everything fully disclaimed.}--- [Homeland Security means private firearms not lazy obstructive guards] [Urb sprawl confounds terror] [Phooey on GUI: Windows for subprime Bimbos] |
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On Dec 26, 7:29*am, "William Sommerwerck"
wrote: The only place I saw that was worse was the VOA Bethany plant (Morrow Ohio) with 10, 50 KW HF transmitters on various short wave bands. You could hold a fluorescent lamp inside the facility and it would light from stray RF. Michael, I know you well enough to know you almost know what you're talking about, and you're /not/ a liar, but I find that hard to believe. How could the field strength be high enough to ionize the gas without also ionizing one's brain (or other bodily parts)? It's is a known phenomena by radio technicians, and many others of us. |
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Radio won't stop playing Christmas music
On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 20:41:54 -0800 Jeff Liebermann
wrote in Message id: : On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 02:20:21 +0000 (UTC), wrote: Some have argued the Biblical Ark of Covenant was in fact designed to receieve radio signals. Presumably, this was so that an advanced civilization of extraterrestrial visitors could communicate with Moses, presumably using some form of amplitude modulation. Just one problem... no advanced alien civilization would stoop to using AM modulation for anything useful. More likely, they would use the much more efficient digital modulation modes. Unless the flying saucer also contained a few museum pieces, I doubt if they even had a method of generating AM. Only John Winston knows for sure. |
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Radio won't stop playing Christmas music
On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 02:20:21 +0000, vjp2.at wrote:
Some have argued the Biblical Ark of Covenant was in fact designed to receieve radio signals. Yeah the first Extra Terrestrial Boom Box. -- Live Fast, Die Young and Leave a Pretty Corpse |
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Mark Zenier wrote:
In article , William Sommerwerck wrote: By "mechanism", I meant what was going on electrically. How was the signal picked up, demodulated, and fed to the speaker at sufficient level to be audible? One example, back about 20 years ago, a friend on the Olympic Peninsula had an old Knight Kit tube stereo amp. It was able to pick up ... KGEI near San Francisco ... a really strong signal in the 6 Mhz band. Interesting, that. I also had a Knight Kit FM receiver of that vintage. El Centro, California was a deep fringe area at that time and radio frequency interference from KGEI was a real nuisance. The detector used some crazy feedback circuit to make a narrow-band IF strip track the wide-band broadcast signal. (Oh, if I had known then what I know now.) I always figured the signal on the 25 meter was getting into the IF but maybe the tall antenna and feedline were resonating at 6 MHz. -- Jack Myers / Westminster, California, USA microHelen: That quantity of facial pulchritude sufficient to launch one thousanth of a ship. |
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On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 12:38:25 +0000 (UTC), Meat Plow
wrote: On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 02:20:21 +0000, vjp2.at wrote: Some have argued the Biblical Ark of Covenant was in fact designed to receieve radio signals. Yeah the first Extra Terrestrial Boom Box. Electrostatic loudspeaker perhaps? It's the wrong shape and size, but it might be possible with sufficiently thin gold leaf. The problem is that it would be really fragile, and not suitable for dragging across the desert. The traditional inscription on the ark was translated to: "No User Serviceable Parts Inside". Ever since touching the arc electrocuted and killed Uzzah, inumerable safety organizations have gone on a rampage producing draconian safety rules and regulations. Because of the obvious high voltage, the boom box ark was probably based on tubes, not semiconductors. -- Jeff Liebermann 150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558 |
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