Hunting down sources of intermod on the AM MW BC band

[NowhereMan 1966]

Originally Posted by Reece

..frequency doubled, minus the other station, then add...my head hurts!

There are stories around the country about hearing radio stations with no radio. One involves a machinist who had a few filings from work in his fillings that acted like a coherer and he could hear music in his head. Others have picked up strong stations in the vicinity in fence wires, gutters and downspouts, and so on. WLW out of Cincinnati in the thirties when they were running 500KW was the premier example of this.

Yeah, I remember talking to a SWLer back in the 1980's on the old Fidonet BBS system where he told the story that when he went to medical school in Mexico, it was next to a 100 kW AM station tower. The signal was so strong that it made florescent tubes glow without any electricity at all and when it was time to "turn off the lights," they had to put the tubes in their dorm closet.