[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.

[Amore]

Thanks! There is a local NBC station tower probably only about a mile from my office. Can't even get a decent tv signal from them, with a fancy booster antenna! I work late every night and I'd like to be able to at least catch some of the news, even if it's NBC.