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To: Gen.Blather
...you’ll play hell selling it because people are scared of sixty hertz...

When you live near a commercial radio station, you get that station across the entire radio dial and other devices that don't even have a receiver. When you live close to power lines you get 60Hz noise on all of your audio gear. Been there, done that, always look for those things whenever I move.

71 posted on 03/14/2025 3:15:35 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: GingisK

My toaster picked up AM radio. The whole thing vibrated as a horrible speaker. Had to keep it unplugged.


73 posted on 03/14/2025 3:19:00 PM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: GingisK

“When you live near a commercial radio station, you get that station across the entire radio dial and other devices that don’t even have a receiver. When you live close to power lines you get 60Hz noise on all of your audio gear. Been there, done that, always look for those things whenever I move.”

Yep, lived across the street from an AM station for awhile. All we had to do was make a short closed circuit loop antenna on a speaker to receive it well enough to listen to at a low volume. Same thing with the old copper core spark plug wires. You didn’t want to live next to a main drag in the 50s and 60s if you liked to actually hear your radio. The plug wires were little Arc Transmitter Antennas.


100 posted on 03/15/2025 2:54:04 AM PDT by Openurmind
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