Hearing strange voices, and no I'm not going mad (I hope)
5hane
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Hi
We are trying to work out why we occasionally pick up a strange voice when watching certain programmes. For example; just as Corrie started tonight we suddenly heard 3 seconds of some kind of scrambled voice interrupting the programme, then just as the adverts finished we heard it again; the same voice but different words. It's hard to decipher what is said as it happens so quickly.
The same thing happened yesterday evening, but I can't remember if it was the same channel as today.
It's actually quite creepy. Perhaps our dish is picking up a signal it shouldn't.
We are trying to work out why we occasionally pick up a strange voice when watching certain programmes. For example; just as Corrie started tonight we suddenly heard 3 seconds of some kind of scrambled voice interrupting the programme, then just as the adverts finished we heard it again; the same voice but different words. It's hard to decipher what is said as it happens so quickly.
The same thing happened yesterday evening, but I can't remember if it was the same channel as today.
It's actually quite creepy. Perhaps our dish is picking up a signal it shouldn't.
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Perhaps we need to hire an indian shaman
There were many occasions when it was on but not playing a record where you could clearly hear a radio station. It was either radio 2 or radio 4, I can't recall which one it was.
It was very annoying!
Crowborough transmitter which was quite high power.
There are lots of stories of odd voices around high power transmitter sites, wire fences were prone to demodulating signal so mysterious voices would be heard as people went out in the dark to change antenna over.
It is possible that if there is a radio amateur operating near the original poster on Single Side Band (or an illegal operator) that he could hear distorted voices. It should be pointed out that it will be almost certainly the fault of the receiver which are notorious for often being poorly screened and filtered so liable to interference.
That used to happen to me when I lived in Newcastle. My record player used to 'broadcast' TyneTees TV sound but only in foggy or damp weather.
Can I help?
Freaked me out the first time it happened!
You know, I thought I heard voices when my recording of Coronation Street started! I had assumed that it was the audio from a previous trail or something!
The last time I encountered this was during the first episide of the modern Doctor Who series. The audio of Strictly Come Dancing was mixed into the programme sound!
I also recall when Channel 5 came about we lived in Bolton so did not get our VCR "retuned" for the Granada transmitters - however we had to do it ourselves as we got a secondary signal from the North Wales transmitter which was on the same frequency as our VCR
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As a child in the 80's I used to hear what sounded like the police on the radio (not the band!). Of course I could have been wrong, but it certainly sounded like police talk even though I could never quite understand what was being said.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afXKOt3A0xc
So perhaps the aliens are now just content with announcing what's on the telly
" https://clyp.it/qivai4bn "
That you tube clip is a fake. The incident happens on a Saturday during the ITN news
The usual thing was the taxi hire base calling different cabs.
In the sixties, I could get the BBC TV sound on my Bush VHF 64 radio, but you had to tune it in.
The brief bit where you hear someone say '...mmerdale', with something like a fax machine going off in the background, is an Audio Description soundtrack. Those tones are a control signal to other parts of the broadcast infrastructure, they shouldn't ever be broadcast raw, as-is. So what you're hearing is almost certainly a fault at the channel's end.
There are "police units " made by MRG systems and a card by Axon which check that there is signal there are put them on the right leg if it is wrong ..... And general ensure that it is ok .. And alarming and putting out messages if it is not !
The ITC rules of operation more or less say that the broadcaster has to use them .
BBC use embedded audio and ITV etc tend to use aes3 ..