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Have you ever heard radio in your teeth?

CalvinBeck

CalvinBeck

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Twice during the past few years I’ve “heard” a radio station in my teeth while falling asleep. There is a 50,000 Watt station 26 miles from my house. Both times I heard it I was dozing off and I heard the station identify itself during a commercial break. I did a little research on it and I found a hypothesis that suggests that certain types of fillings in contact with each other along with the right saliva conditions in your mouth can create a primitive PN junction. Some say this is impossible. Others claim it’s an auditory hallucination. Or it could have just been a dream. But I remember it causing a buzzing/vibration in my teeth and it “sounded” real. I know this is a weird one. Has anyone else experienced this?
 
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LOL.
Maybe I'm crazy. I'm not the only one though. Barenaked Ladies has a song on their album "Stunt" called "Light Up My Room." One of the verses is, "There are luxuries we can't afford, but at our house we never get bored, 'cause we can dance to the radio station that plays in our teeth."
 
Dad was one of a group of guys who set up AM radio stations using left over U.S. military gear back in the 40's
story is a guy came running out of the bush nearby, heard demons, voices, they had to change the shape of his fillings.......
Another story was a metal bed headboard was resonant..., added a long wire to ground killed it.
Not unheard of.
 
I was voted "MOST HATED" in my neighborhood when I was just a kid.

I had a C.B. radio that played over my neighbors antenna TV. Every time I would key the transmitter our phone would ring with complaints. Looking back, I'm pretty sure it was that big Moon Raker antenna that gave away my location.

Yes, radio frequency energy can do some strange things.
Like I can remember when consumers health advocates warned of the dangers of holding a cellphone against your head.....brain cancer. All I know is that it sure can make you stupid enough to step in front of a speeding locomotive.
 
i do hear "phantom" music sometimes caused by background noises, usually coming from another room. i am not alone because i asked my bestie one time and he gets the same thing occasionally.

i mean theres a beat and guitars. its trippy. most likely i fried too many brain cells in my younger years.
 
"According to Robert Hunsucker, a professor emeritus at the Geophysical Institute with the University of Alaska Fairbanks, my phone isn't that complicated, and neither is a receiver circuit. A receiver is so simple, Hunsucker said, that anything from a phone to a person's mouth can act as one ... Hunsucker said the problem can sometimes be cured with a radio-frequency filter that can be attached to the phone line. He also said that if the radio signal is very strong, a filter might not be enough.

Such is the extremely rare case when a person's mouth acts as a receiver. The electrical conductivity of the human body can act as an antenna. A metallic filling in a tooth, reacting just so with saliva, can act as a semiconductor to detect the audio signal. The speaker in this case could be anything that vibrates within the mouth enough to produce noise, such as bridgework or maybe a loose filling. [Emphasis added.]"

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/...to-pick-up-radio-signals-from-dental-fillings
 
Most people in this hobby know all about electromagnetic radiation so it certainly is possible under the right conditions. We have radio and tv waves, phone, digital and God knows what else running through our bodies on a daily basis.

A crystal radio taps into electromagnetic radio waves without any external power source. :idea:

They say it is safe but who knows what a lifetime of being exposed to these things really does to us. Microwaves were discovered accidentally with some melted chocolate.

Oh, and try living underneath high voltage power lines for years! :yikes:
 
For a couple of years I crashed on a futon in the living room of a couple of my friends in Seattle. I just had the mattress and would roll it up in the morning. We lived in an apartment on Aloha at the bottom of Queen Anne. There were several radio and TV towers at the top of the hill. My head was fairly close to our television and I would hear voices at night. While certainly not as crazy as hearing radio in your teeth, it was driving me nuts. And, my apartment mates thought I was nuts. Finally, figured out that if I unplugged the TV from the wall it would stop and I could sleep.
I bought a phone with a 10 number memory. It was useless from all the radio/TV it would pick up. I tried all sorts of filters on the line and still had the problem. We went back to the red princess phone we had inherited from one of our friends from San Diego -- no whispery voices, but had to go back to dialing our favorites the old fashioned way. Used the other phone after moving and worked fine.

So, I could easily believe a small number of people could pick up radio on their dental work. Gilligan proves the point.
 
An Amplitude Modulated (AM) broadcast signal is relatively easy to detect. When he lived in Pittsburgh, dad told the story of once hearing the KDKA announcers voice from a chain link fence. He told me about that years later on Christmas morning when I received a crystal radio kit. Thank you dad.
 
I spent time on the air at a common-site (co-located studio & transmitter) 50kW AM station. Although it never happened to me, a couple of the other jocks had experienced the phenomenon. I did note that you could walk around in the building with a fluorescent tube in your hand and it would be lit. The station engineer told me of a wild problem he fixed. A lady across the road from the station was startled by a big arc whenever she opened the oven door. The engineer paid her a visit and fastened a piece of ground braid between the oven body and the door. Problem solved! There was a baseball field at the North edge of the tower field, and during night games the filaments in the field lights would dance along with the music. The nighttime directional pattern put an estimated ERP of 525kW right over the field. I LOVE high-power AM!
 
electronjohn said:
I spent time on the air at a common-site (co-located studio & transmitter) 50kW AM station. Although it never happened to me, a couple of the other jocks had experienced the phenomenon. I did note that you could walk around in the building with a fluorescent tube in your hand and it would be lit. The station engineer told me of a wild problem he fixed. A lady across the road from the station was startled by a big arc whenever she opened the oven door. The engineer paid her a visit and fastened a piece of ground braid between the oven body and the door. Problem solved! I LOVE high-power AM!
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One reason the WLW 500kw investment experiment didn't work out, the other, interference propagation.
It's not easy to manage that much radiated energy.
 
Pio1980 said:
One reason the WLW 500kw investment experiment didn't work out, the other, interference propagation.
It's not easy to manage that much radiated energy.
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WLW had its own substation to power that 500kW monster. Even with that, lights in the nearby town of Mason would dim along with the modulation. Think of it: Plate-modulated w/about 30% efificiency...that would mean an input of about 1.5 MEGAWATTS to get 500kW into that big stick...which is still in use. (Not the 500kW transmitter...although it remains on site since it's essentially part of the transmitter building. A more modern 50kW rig does the duty nowadays)
 
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