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Killing the Snake... [message #12613]

Fri, 01 January 2010 09:32

Shaun_Musings
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Registered: April 2009
Location: Reading, MA

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Okay, if this is something that I'm not supposed to do, please inform me!

Across the street lives a nice old geezer who has these massive radio towers in his backyard so he can broadcast over his Ham Radio. Now, I have nothing against these things (I just never got into them), but if you leave an unpowered speaker cabinet out (plugged in or not, it doesn't matter), you can hear him through the speakers.

I decided to do what I'd done with the television set back in the early nineties and shield it. I took an old metal coupling from a garden hose and screwed it around the 1/4" line to the speaker (2x15). Now, normally you're supposed to use a magnet, but I wasn't sure if this would affect anything.

The hiss and hum disappeared like magic! Now...

1. I will still be replacing Mallories and transistors, I'm not trying to be lazy

2. Does this reflect a loose plug inside the head, since the heavy coupling does pull on the 1/4" jack a bit?

Shaun

Born on the Baaaaayou (Ok, in Massachusetts)

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		Killing the Snake... By: Shaun_Musings on Fri, 01 January 2010 09:32
		Re: Killing the Snake... By: stevem on Sat, 02 January 2010 10:24
		Re: Killing the Snake... By: chicagobill on Thu, 07 January 2010 17:36
		Re: Killing the Snake... By: Shaun_Musings on Thu, 07 January 2010 17:38

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