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Re:What 50,000 watts of RF energy sounds like through a jump... by michael_h on Thursday February 11, 2016 @09:26AM (#11080267)
I grew up about 5 miles from that antenna. I can't say I ever heard the radio through the wiring in my house. The Voice of America antenna array down the street though? I could hear it clearly through my stereo speakers when everything was turned off.

It's been dismantled, but I can imagine the number of ghost stories that it spawned. Just sitting in your house, and then you faintly hear a man speaking German...

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Re:What 50,000 watts of RF energy sounds like through a jump... by bschwindHN on Thursday February 11, 2016 @10:05AM (#11080502)
It's weird seeing people on reddit who grew up in the same town as you, but it's even weirder seeing it on Hacker News for some reason.

I never heard the broadcasts through metal objects in the house either, but maybe they scaled back the power in the time I grew up there. Never heard any VoA broadcasts either.

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