I'm hearing conversations in my PC's speakers

[G-Man]

Originally posted by Lucky
The metal container is a Faradayan Cage, which not only protects you from lightning, as most of you know, but also prevent most electromagnetic waves to penetrate the inside. Sometimes even the ultra high frequence of mobile phones is affected, depending on the type of metal and the thickness, so sometimes you can´t use those phones there.

So, when the door is shut, you are pretty much "secure" from any electromagnetic noise, which is generated by every electrical machine. On a construction site, there should be more than enough of these "noise generators".
Once you go outside of the container, there should be a similar static noise on your tape recorder. It may be possible that the open door and the metal cage function as a kind of amplification for the noise, too, so it may be better outside of the container.

Thnx
Anyway I doubt that being outside will be better... It's hot (I think the news said 42c), it's noisy, and they don't have a computer there... They are, however, able to use cell phones. Since it's a large area and it already has three parking floors underground they comunicate with each other through cell phones all the time.

 

[dannyevilcat]

The plot thickens...

I just heard the voices over the phone while talking to my brother-in-law. He heard it too.

Maybe Lucky's explanation isn't the reason? HOW DO I MAKE IT STOP!?

 

[Apollo]

Originally posted by dannyevilcat
The plot thickens...

I just heard the voices over the phone while talking to my brother-in-law. He heard it too.

Maybe Lucky's explanation isn't the reason? HOW DO I MAKE IT STOP!?

Were they screaming, Clarice?


Did you try talking back to these voices? Have a little conversation with your new imaginary friends...

 

[Leonel]

Ooooo. Demon possessed electronics. Put a cross on it and see if a very deep, growly and frighteningly loud voice yells at you to "GET OUT!!!!" followed by your walls dripping blood and your furniture flying about in a violent roomtornado. Heheh.

 

[Chieftess]

Originally posted by Becka



Sounds like what happened to my dad's TV. Sometimes, you'd turn it off, but you'd still hear things through the speakers.

That's what happened to my TV once.

 

[Gastric ReFlux]

A sort of technical question. In my case, I'm receiving commands from Joan of Arc and Martin Luther to lead a holy crusade. Now since I'm only receiving commands, and not engaing in dialogue, is that a conversation?

And btw, should I stone or burn infidels?

 

[Switch625]

Originally posted by Gastric ReFlux
A sort of technical question. In my case, I'm receiving commands from Joan of Arc and Martin Luther to lead a holy crusade. Now since I'm only receiving commands, and not engaing in dialogue, is that a conversation?

And btw, should I stone or burn infidels?

Take two hits of Thorazine and call me in the morning.

 

[Gastric ReFlux]

Right. Switch625 scheduled for stoning.

 

[ComradeDavo]

Originally posted by dannyevilcat
This is really messed up. I can hear people talking sometimes in my computer speakers, it sounds like a dispatcher or something.
Is this because of my dial-up connection picking up a phone line or am I schizophrenic all of a sudden?

I dunno..but at least the voices aren't in your head. Mine are

Right. Switch625 scheduled for stoning.

 

[Switch625]

Originally posted by Gastric ReFlux
Right. Switch625 scheduled for stoning.

Are we using marijuana, or something a bit stronger?

 

[Zwelgje]

Originally posted by Switch625
Are we using marijuana, or something a bit stronger?

What did you have in mind?

 

[Bamspeedy]

Lucky is most likely correct. It most likely is transmissions from a CB radio or ham radio. Do you see any CB radio antennas in your neighborhood? Ham radio operators I believe are required to have a license to operate them, and follow the rules as far as making sure they are grounded properly so they don't cause interference with other electrical equipment nearby. Ham radios, when grounded properly usually don't 'bleed over' TVs, phones, stereos, etc. 'Bleed over' is slang for interfering.

The biggest problem of Bleed over is from regular CB radios that are running too much power. If you don't have a license, I believe the limit is 2 or 4 watts. There are 'kickers' (which are illegal without a license, but very rarely enforced) that can add 100, 250, 500 + watts. I used to have a kicker and I bled all over the city . I literally melted one antenna that could not handle the power, It was on fire! With all that power, you almost always need to hook up a second car battery to your vehicle. It still drains the alternator, though. Normally with a 2 or 4 watt radio you can only talk to people a few miles away, sometimes up to 20 - 50 if the conditions are right and/or you are on top of a large hill. With a kicker I was able to talk to people in California, Alabama, Cuba, etc. from Wisconsin. Ham radios are on different frequencies (called 'sideband') than most truck drivers use, and these frequencies allow for greater range without needing more power.

If someone is using the legal limit of power and the radio is properly grounded and still bleeding over things, then the speaker, phone, stereo is not properly grounded. In my town most phones were barely grounded, if at all, so the phone company was grounding them better for anyone having problems for free.

 

[Bamspeedy]

Oh, I forgot something...

If you can't figure out where the transmissions are coming from (finding out who has a CB nearby that 'might' be the cause). Like what Lucky was getting at, you may need stronger cables that protect from interference. Even for CB radios there are different cables, because almost any cable will 'leak' some transmissions through microscopic holes in the cables/wires. Depending on the thickness or what material is in it, that will affect how much of the transmission is putting out or absorbing interference through the cables. I would go to Radio Shack or where you bought your computer/speakers or whatever, explain to them the situation and ask if they have stronger 'shielded' cables, or if there is a filter or something you can install to help block this interference.

 

[redtom]

Has anyone heard of a haunted computer before?

 

[Simon Darkshade]

I have made a few calls, and Max Von Sydow will be popping around later with Father Karras. This could get messy, so tie down your speakers firmly and pray for deliverance.

Alternatively, it could be that your house has been routinely bugged by some of my evil minions. In this case, I am very disappointed with your language, young man.

 

[King of Camelot]

Originally posted by dannyevilcat
The plot thickens...

I just heard the voices over the phone while talking to my brother-in-law. He heard it too.

Maybe Lucky's explanation isn't the reason? HOW DO I MAKE IT STOP!?

Well, the most extreme way I can think of is build an underground cement shelter, put the speakers in the back of a car with lots of C4 packed around it, park the car in the underground shelter, set off the C4, cover over the hole in the ground with dirt, and get new speakers. But thats just me. Have you tried borrowing speakers from someone you know and see if those do the same thing?

 

[WillJ]

Maybe there are tiny little people stuck inside your computer's speakers and in your phone... And they are trying to get you to help them out... I suggest smashing the speakers and the phone into many pieces and seing if anybody's there. Then you can go to where you got them from and see if they have a refund/exchange policy for items that were damaged to see if there were little people inside of them.

 

[Becka]

Originally posted by willj
Maybe there are tiny little people stuck inside your computer's speakers and in your phone... And they are trying to get you to help them out... I suggest smashing the speakers and the phone into many pieces and seing if anybody's there. Then you can go to where you got them from and see if they have a refund/exchange policy for items that were damaged to see if there were little people inside of them.

I know my graphing calculator says "HELP I AM TRAPPED IN HERE" or some such thing on the screen. Probably because I typed it there myself when I got home with it. o_O

I just heard the voices over the phone while talking to my brother-in-law. He heard it too.

Sounds like what happened to some friends of mine. They were talking on the phone, and they could hear the conversation of someone else who was on the phone. Obviously the mysterious caller lived on the same street as one of them. They were able to talk to him too. o_O Very odd. Don't know what caused it, though.

 

[cegman]

Umm... anyone here heard of a haunted pool table? I know stupid but my friend has one:|.

 

[dannyevilcat]

Haunted how? Someone I knew once told me a story about how someone he knew (yes, typical dessemination of bull-sh*t) who lived in a house where in the night they could hear the sounds of pool being played, and when they checked it out-- NO ONE WAS THERE! SPOOOOOKY...

Anyway, I've decided to keep track of their conversations (today one of them told the other he was watching some music awards or something) until they slip up and reveal their locations.