Has anyone else ever picked up HAM radio broadcasts on their computer headphones

[KitchenWitch]

I am picking something up here and it is freaking me out.

I cannot make out most of the words, but it is a repeating message.

[billyskank]

1. Hey!

I thought you were going to bed! :spank:

[KitchenWitch]

3. I was, until I started hearing these transmissions

:blush:

[billyskank]

4. Are they telling you to come and make passionate love to billyskank?

If so, it's just me. :7

[KitchenWitch]

5. Wow, that went from G rated to R rated awfully fast!

:evilgrin:

[billyskank]

6. Well I'm here now

;)

[KitchenWitch]

2. Damn, now it has stopped.

And no, it is NOT the committee in my head!

:rofl:

[Omphaloskepsis]

7. This is common...

Do you have powered speakers with amplifiers built in? What's happening is that the audio cables you're using to feed your signal to the speakers are acting like antennas. CB is AM, and it takes almost nothing to receive AM if the signal is strong enough. (Especially if the trucker is using an illegal power booster and exceeding the FCC regs for transmit power, which some of them do.)

The best way to prevent this is to use coax or otherwise shielded cables. Go somewhere like Radio Shack or Best Buy and tell someone there about your problem, and they'll sell you an audio cable that costs four times what a simple one costs, but which will prevent this from happening.

[KitchenWitch]

9. Thanks

Will do.

[LaurenG]

8. I picked up something once through my speakers

it scared the hell out of me as it was so quiet at the time. Someone explained why but I forgot what they said. :hi:

[billyskank]

10. Hey you

:hug:

:hi:

[LaurenG]

11. Hi Billyskank!

How are you today? :hug:

[billyskank]

12. Hayfeverish.

:(

[LaurenG]

13. Oh I know what that's like

I lived her for 5 years and suddenly I was allergic to the great outdoors. I didn't know what was up as I had never had hay-fever before. :shrug: The really bad thing is nearly everything I like to do is outside! :pals:

[datasuspect]

14. what kind of repeating message?

are they repeating series of numbers?

[DBoon]

15. No, only grilled salmon broadcasts

I live in a Jewish neighborhood....

[LoZoccolo]

16. Why would it freak you out?

It just means you have a bad pair of headphones or something.

I have a cheap little guitar amp that picked up some kind of walkie-talkie, and pretty loudly too.

[mike_c]

17. hey-- that's where the voices started talking to me, too....

Cosmic, innit?

[ZombieNixon]

18. I had that happen a few times.

Not on headphones, but on my speaker set since the amplifiers are much more high-powered.

[Silver Swan]

19. Radio stuff

When I lived next to Northwestern University I picked up the campus radio station on everything--even a casette player.

At some point something must have changed and because for the last 10-15 years I lived there, it didn't happen anymore.

[SmileyMarie]

20. I get it in my TV and telephone sometimes.

I keep thinking it's the little christian radio station about 1/4 mile from my house but I can never hear it well enough to figure out what it is.

[Richard Steele]

21. No, but I once picked up a police radio on my tv...

The officer was radioing his base, to tell them he had just
pulled up at -MY- address, and it came through my TV set,
drowning out the program I was watching.

It really freaked me out- for a second there, I thought he
was on a bullhorn outside, giving me a warning!

But then I realized it was just his high-powered radio 15 feet away,
combined with the 25 feet of speaker wire I was using for a TV antenna.

(Turned out he was just dropping off some court papers to
my upstairs neighbor, BTW. What a relief!)

[CRF450]

22. My dad has a good size HAM radio setup with a 75 foot tower...

But all it does to my computer speakers (Logitech Z-560) is make them buzz really loud when he key's the mic! Now the CB radios do interfear with it in a way where you can barley understand what there talking about, and it only lasts for a quick second.