[Amore]

flourescent lights jam your AM reception

They can do that? Can they jam anything else? We get practically no reception at my office -- radio, tv, cell phones. Building built around 1980, my only guess has been that they shielded the building in lead!

[Blood of Tyrants]

Yes, flourescent light ballasts (the thing that steps the voltage up to make the gas in the light glow) can interfere with radio reception by basically being a source of broad band noise. 1980 would be old enough to have the older style transformer ballasts insteda of electronic ballsts.

[El Gato]

Your computer tends to play hell with AM reception too. Although with the clock speeds as high as they are now, it probably suppresses some weaker FM stations too.