I had a sort of similar situation happen to me while we were setting up for my wedding. My wedding took place outside, and in order to get the music out there, we added hundreds of feet of wire to the speakers instead of moving the entire stereo out there. All of the sudden, our local 50kW AM station (750kHz) was coming through the speakers as if some one had tuned the station in, and the stereo was not even on! I had not yet had a communications class at the time, so I did not understand what was happening. I later realized that we had almost made a perfect half-wave dipole antenna for the station with the speaker wire.
---------- From: [email protected][SMTP:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 1998 4:26 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Odd Immunity Problems Since you brought it up, I am reminded of a time in my youth before the "Hey Good Buddy..." craze hit the CB world. Back when it was a serious citizens band, licenses were required and I was young and foolish. I had a 5 channel 1 watt Johnson Messenger One CB. Had great fun 'til I bought a one kW linear amplifier for it. Was talking to someone several states away (hundreds of miles) when a knock came at the door upstairs. Heard my neighbor from across the street screaming at my mother. My voice was coming through their stereo speakers even though the power was off! That wasn't the worst part, he heard me talking about spending time with their daughter, whom I was forbidden to see! Sure had no clue what EMI was then but, boy, did I ever learn about angry fathers! Today I am a Compliance Engineer, but did not marry his daughter. Regards, Scott [email protected]
