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OK So here's an interesting thing I found out the other day when I was at my parents place, apparently surge protestors can also act as AC Line Noise Supression Devices.
Here's why I think this, as I had mentioned before when I would plug any sort of radio straight into a power outlet in my parents house and the overhead florescent lights in my parent's basement are on, I get a loud buzzing noise on the FM Band and absolutely no reception on the FM Band (except for one super strong 50kW FM Station that is just a couple of miles up the road from my parent's house and even that station is kind of noisy.)
But then when my dad took this old boombox I had left at their place for me to listen to when I spend the night at their place on early Sunday Mornings when I get off of work at 2:30 AM, and brought it to the basement and plugged it into the surge protector that their TV in the basement was also plugged into, the radio made absolutely no noise whatsoever when the lights in the basement were on. Go figure...
So it seems that maybe the answer to our noisy radios in our homes is to use a surge protector.
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