On Aug 6, 1:10*pm, "Tam" wrote:
"christopher" wrote in message

peed... On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:05:32 -0400, Ed Cregger wrote:

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In my wild and misspent youth when I was using 11 meters, I used a VERY
large amp which would cause some neighbors to hear my voice coming from
electric sockets, refrigerators, light bulbs, radios, TVs and such. I
would also voice over anyone close who was recording on tape.

My electric bill was rather large as I had to unplug the stove to use the
220 socket.
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The other day I was operating on 40 m SSB with 1KW+ output. Antenna is an
inverted V at 50 feet. My mother told me she could hear my voice coming out
of somewhere on the second floor. There was nothing with a speaker in it
that was turned on, not even a PC. I will have to repeat that with a ham
friend present.

Tam/WB2TT

The UK back in the 1950s, post WWII.
They were investigating some complaints that a licensed amateur radio
transmitter was causing interference to some of the new fangled TV
sets (45 megahertz, AM sound, 405 line black and white system). The
fault was mainly the inabilities of the TV sets to reject strong
nearby signals in another band!
One elderly lady was asked if she was "Hearing anything" and replied.
"Oh yes. I hear him all the time" and was asked to show the
investigators her TV set.
"Oh no", she said, "I don't have a TV at all but I can hear him on my
electric heater whenever I switch it on or plug it in!".
Turned out that the heating coil of the heater was providing
inductance, there was a sufficiently high resistance (possibly where
the replaceable heating coil connected at each end) to act as
rectifier under the conditions present and the metal frame of the
heater provided a sound box.
The lady was not particularly concerned about having the heater fixed,
saying "She found his talking quite interesting!".
You never know do you?
Nowadays sort of wondering about cell phones and those bits of metal
that some people wear in their noses, faces and ears etc.