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Fans picking up radio signals?

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Sometimes when I am in my room with the fan on, and if I listen really closely, I can hear faint music. When I turn off the fan, the music stops. I have searched my room/house, and cant find any electronic things that would produce sounds (that were on). I have come to the conclusion that my fan is picking up radio waves.

Here is the fan is question.

 

Am I going crazy, or is this plausible?

I've heard about this.

 

Cables in the house act as an antenna, diode in the fan converts AM into sound via a vibrating case or motor coil windings.

thats pretty crazy.

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It doesn't surprise me. I've heard of reported cases in which a person's braces have picked up radio waves. Don't know whether it's true or not.

 

Could you possibly make a video of the fan when it does this. It would be cool to hear.

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This is from the Yahoo! Answers page, which probably means you have a radio station transmitting very close to your house.

 

I listened more closely and heard "Voice" and "700". Searched online, and it turns out there is a radio station called 700AM Voice that broadcast less than a mile from my apartment!!

 

And yeah, radio stations used to transmit so intensely that people could pick up radio in their braces, and hear them through their ears.

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And yeah, radio stations used to transmit so intensely that people could pick up radio in their braces, and hear them through their ears.

That's [bleep]ing crazy.

 

Thanks for teaching me something new today. :D

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And yeah, radio stations used to transmit so intensely that people could pick up radio in their braces, and hear them through their ears.

That's [bleep]ing crazy.

 

Thanks for teaching me something new today. :D

That actually makes braces sound awesome.

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And yeah, radio stations used to transmit so intensely that people could pick up radio in their braces, and hear them through their ears.

That's [bleep]ing crazy.

 

Thanks for teaching me something new today. :D

That actually makes braces sound awesome.

 

Too bad there aren't any local radio stations that I'd want to listen to. Maybe if I put my iPod radio adapter close enough to my cheek...

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This is quite possibly the coolest phenomonon I've ever heard involving a fan.

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This is quite possibly the coolest phenomonon I've ever heard involving a fan.

 

No way, if you talk into a fan your voice sounds like a robot. Now that's cool.

This is quite possibly the coolest phenomonon I've ever heard involving a fan.

 

Close second for me, the koreans get the first place. In Korea it is widely accepted as a fact that if you go to sleep with a fan on in a room you can die.

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This is quite possibly the coolest phenomonon I've ever heard involving a fan.

 

Close second for me, the koreans get the first place. In Korea it is widely accepted as a fact that if you go to sleep with a fan on in a room you can die.

 

Well.. you CAN, but the fan isn't likely to cause it.

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This is quite possibly the coolest phenomonon I've ever heard involving a fan.

 

Close second for me, the koreans get the first place. In Korea it is widely accepted as a fact that if you go to sleep with a fan on in a room you can die.

I go to sleep just about every night with the fan on. :ohnoes:

Back in my dorm room I could tilt my guitar at a certain angle and get radio to play out of my amp. Pretty weird/cool.

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Now I just need a radio station.

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I used to pick it up from my computer speakers. Thought it was pretty cool.

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This is quite possibly the coolest phenomonon I've ever heard involving a fan.

 

No way, if you talk into a fan your voice sounds like a robot. Now that's cool.

 

They are equal in awesomeness.

This is quite possibly the coolest phenomonon I've ever heard involving a fan.

 

Close second for me, the koreans get the first place. In Korea it is widely accepted as a fact that if you go to sleep with a fan on in a room you can die.

I go to sleep just about every night with the fan on. :ohnoes:

oh yeah. The fan death thing about it creating an air vortex or something, and you'll suffocate.

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