why do radio stations come thru my computer speakers?

Question

I plugged in some speakers in my computer and I faintly hear a local radio station coming thru with static in the background. There is nothing playing on my computer either! When I play my own music on the computer, the radio is still playing in the background! Its so annoying! HELP!

Answer 1

I use to have friends that lived near a broadcast tower for a local radio station that sent out 150,000 watts of power. They lived within 3 blocks of the tower. You could hear the radio station in the metal curtain rods. Everything electrical could pick up the signal. Many people in the area with braces could hear the station. You could barely hear a telephone conversation over the broadcast. Funny hearing the toaster oven acting as a radio when you opened the door (the heater coils vibrated nicely to the bass line).

So you have a radio interference problem. Need to get shielded speakers and make sure that the connecting cable is shielded. You may still have a problem with AC line picking up the signal and transmitting it through the speakers power supply.

Answer 2

Its radio interference. all electronic items are required by the FCC to allow some interference happen. It just so happens you might of bought some really cheep speakers that will allow a lot of interference. Or do you live near the radio station in question, or a tower for it?

Answer 3

I don't know. But I had the same thing happen when I was running telephone wire in my house. I heard the radio station faintly through the earpiece! Coincidence? :-)

Answer 4

It's the white noise. Whatever you do, don't talk to it!