[RFI] mysterious voices, music come from house's walls

[Kim Elmore]

Around the time I got my ticket, my Cub Scout pack got a tour of the KVOO 50 kW transmitter in Tulsa. The monitor in the dog house consisted of a 1N34 tied to a speaker. The chief engineer told us that the RF was so strong that people’s bed springs would “talk,” as would gutters around roofs and radios the were turned off. At night, their pattern changed (it was a cardioid that protected WWVA in Wheeling, WV, which in turn protected them) such that our house was in the middle of their main lobe. My dad (W5JHJ, SK) measured about 1100 mV of RF from them on our house ground. They pretty much got into everything. We were maybe 5 mi away from them. 

Kim N5OP

"People that make music together cannot be enemies, at least as long as the music lasts." -- Paul Hindemith

> On Feb 24, 2020, at 1:07 PM, Jim Brown <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote:
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> When I was a kid and AM ruled on the ham bands, there was a story circulating about a ham who got a complaint from a neighbor who thought it was indecent for the ham to be in bed with his wife, because something -- bed springs, electric blanket, ???? -- was rectifying RF and vibrating. Who knows if it was real or a gag.
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