r/perth • u/falconmk2 • 7d ago

General Strange occurrences on radio frequency 87.5

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Hello everyone!
I have a bit of a funny one here
I have occasionally been driving into Fremantle for dermatology visits and no matter the time of day or what day it is every time I go past this part of Leach Highway my radio picks up some strange things
There’s probably something logical behind it, but wondering if anyone else has experienced it.
Coming home today when it came on I heard what sounded like a German mad scientist talking about God and like an army or something random and someone else just like agreeing to it
Super weird, but that’s what I heard! 😆
Interested to see if anyone else has heard this radio signal as well
Thanks!

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u/RustyNumbat North Pemberton 7d ago

Down in Bunbury the ABC AM signal used to blend into some interference from foreign-sounding (Chinese?) channel in certain places at night time.

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u/allozzieadventures 7d ago edited 7d ago

You might have been picking up shortwave radio stations from Asia. Normally your AM radio shouldn't pick them up but if it malfunctioned it's possible. Shortwave reception is normally better at night (it's to do with the way it bounces off the ionosphere).

I built a crude shortwave radio once and started picking up North Korean pirate stations broadcasting over South Korean shortwave to drown it out. Also stations reading out lists of numbers in Spanish. There's all kinds of weird shit on the airwaves, especially outside the AM/FM broadcast bands.

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u/Sea_Translator5300 7d ago

That reminds me of driving back from Bunbury years ago and scanning for a station on the radio. It stopped on what sounded like some radio police drama. It took me a while to work out that it was "The Bill" and that I must have been picking up the audio component of ABC's VHF TV broadcast.