Ever hear random radio chatter through your computer speakers?

[Kroze]

This is weird, once in a while I would hear radio chatter through my computer speakers. Could it be because my cell phone is right on the desk & near the speakers? It creeps me out.

 

[OutHouse]

could be some dude what a powerful ham radio near you.

 

[Maligx]

No but when I was a kid I had walkie talkies and remember one time listening to a phone conversation, was very weird.

 

[Newbian]

You sure you are not hearing the implant the CIA placed in your head?

 

[CZroe]

Yes (Creative Cambridge Soundworks 4.1)

 

[Blackjack200]

I used to hear radio signals on the phone (hard line) it was very quiet so you could only hear that people were talking, not what they were saying. It was pretty creepy until I figured out what it was... then it was just annoying.

 

[Spikesoldier]

yes, it is your cell phone

do you have at&t?

 

[Udgnim]

my speakers pick up buzz/static sometimes

 

[PsiStar]

Define radio signals

AM radio, CB, ham radio .... are you in a residential area, apartment complex, college dorm ...

 

[mesthead21]

This is why i wrap my computer and speakers in aluminum foil

 

[IcePickFreak]

I remember when cordless phones were all the rage, we lived right near the airport (and I still do actually) where planes are pretty low. Quite often when on a cordless phone it would pick up radio chatter from an airplane going over. Never had anything through the computer speakers though.

 

[BoomerD]

No, but I have a set of Advent wireless speakers (900 MHz) that I used with my PC, and I used to hear my neighbors' phone calls all the time....I finally went to their house one evening when they were on the phone talking to a mortgage company about refinancing their house...I told them to get a wired phone for the important calls because I was listening to them on my speakers...They didn't believe me...so I had the husband come to my house while his wife made a phone call...He got mad as hell at me. (like it's my fault) I explained that wireless phones are basically just radios...and that anyone in the neighborhood could potentially listen in if they were in range and had the right frequency. THAT got his attention...I never heard any more of their phone calls.

 

[TridenT]

Nope. Never had that once with any speakers of mine.

 

[ShadowOfMyself]

What the hell... I have my cellphone here all the time and never heard that kind of thing, thats creepy, Id start thinking I was about to be abducted by aliens

 

[dawp]

Have the voices told you to do thing that are .... questionable?

 

[Zebo]

Sounds like you're documenting an insanity defense

"My computer speakers made me do it."

 

[Synomenon]

Number Stations.

 

[zanejohnson]

never happened to me personally...heard of it though

 

[WildHorse]

`l

 

[Obsy]

I remember talking on the phone with my mom a long time ago where I could hear someone else's chatter. I think I was on a corded phone, and when I asked my mom if she could hear the other peoples' chatter, she said "no." This was at least five years ago.

 

[cronos]

It's people from another dimension trying to make a contact with you

 

[grohl]

Yes, nothing but Tejano music through a shitty pair of computer speakers I had 5-10 years ago. Drove me crazy.

 

[Ichinisan]

My speakers used to play a radio station even when I unplugged the power and the input jack. I guess it was so perfectly-tuned that it was getting enough power just from the broadcast to have plenty of volume.

Anyway, the interference is definitely not coming from a cell phone. All modern mobile phones are digital and encrypted. Even if you can hear the interference, you can't hear the conversation.

A lot of older home cordless phones weren't digital and didn't have any encryption...there were lots of interesting incidents with those.

 

[HydroSqueegee]

i had an old land line with a regular corded phone back in highschool. i would regularly pick up some religious station frm chicago while talking on the phone. it would fade in and fade out after a bit. kinda creepy. pretty good range considering i lived in a suburb of dayton ohio at the tme.

 

[Tweak155]

Phones with GSM technology I've noticed will cause interference with speakers. It sounds like a timed signal and I still hear it when I'm out and about around other people.