This little story should be good for a few laughs… and I swear it’s true!
Last week I picked up a 25’ microphone extension cable while visiting my local Radio Shack.
I thought it would be just the thing I needed to eliminate the annoying hum in my recordings caused by my computer.
25’ is enough to run from my PC in the living room into my bedroom where I can shut the door and get great accoustics.
When I tried it out last week, sure enough the hum was gone from my recordings… but I started picking up a Japanese radio station through my PC!
All that jabbering and crazy music in the background of my recordings was worse than the hum ever was. 
Thinking it was just an odd occurance that wasn’t likely to happen again, I tried recording a tune tonight… and started picking up a German radio station through my PC!
Now I suppose I’ll have to pick up a heavy-duty shielded audio cable on my next visit to Radio Shack… but I can’t help but wonder if that’ll solve the problem, or if I might start picking up radio signals that SETI would be interested in hearing! 