If not intended, then shielding and other mitigations are warranted.
If intended, making it clean and respectful of the spectrum are warranted.
Otherwise, it's a hack!
Simple AM radio is a fun tech to explore for a little. For many of us, it was the first real connection to the world and the people in it.
Late night AM with a long wire antenna, maybe directional loop, and or tuned coils, filters, is a great experience, particularly on older radios.
Starting sometime around the 80's, AM radios got kind of lousy. It varies a little by manufacturer too. Ford, oddly enough, produced great ones into the 00's.
Anyway, at night, you get the various stations, and depending on propagation, they could be very far away stations, and also the sounds of the world all mixed together.
I can remember late nights listening to all sorts of programs, people telling stories, music, talk programs on a wide variety of topics, and often frank in style and form.
And that electric fence, tick, tick, tick.
A car starting.
Storm brewing.
Electric appliances.
All sorts of things just added in.
As a purist interested in the program, these are all kind of crappy. Hard to ignore.
People like FM because it rejects most all of that stuff.
But, as a curious person? It is like another sense. Electro phenomena mapped into sound. Very fun, and an interesting way to perceive what's around you.
IMHO, this is a big part of why making computer sound on an AM radio is cool.
Everything I just wrote applies to the short wave bands too, though those are messy today. Best done away from a metro area.
If you want to experience this at all, score an early radio, even a vacuum tube one ( my favorite ), get a long wire and venture out somewhere and just listen.
Camping is a great time for it, and I still do every year. For an hour or two, it takes me way back to early times.
A portable, transistor one made a while ago is best and still cheap.
Older GE Super Radios are real good. The ones made prior to 2010 or so are best, and not expensive.
If not intended, then shielding and other mitigations are warranted.
If intended, making it clean and respectful of the spectrum are warranted.
Otherwise, it's a hack!
Simple AM radio is a fun tech to explore for a little. For many of us, it was the first real connection to the world and the people in it.
Late night AM with a long wire antenna, maybe directional loop, and or tuned coils, filters, is a great experience, particularly on older radios.
Starting sometime around the 80's, AM radios got kind of lousy. It varies a little by manufacturer too. Ford, oddly enough, produced great ones into the 00's.
Anyway, at night, you get the various stations, and depending on propagation, they could be very far away stations, and also the sounds of the world all mixed together.
I can remember late nights listening to all sorts of programs, people telling stories, music, talk programs on a wide variety of topics, and often frank in style and form.
And that electric fence, tick, tick, tick.
A car starting.
Storm brewing.
Electric appliances.
All sorts of things just added in.
As a purist interested in the program, these are all kind of crappy. Hard to ignore.
People like FM because it rejects most all of that stuff.
But, as a curious person? It is like another sense. Electro phenomena mapped into sound. Very fun, and an interesting way to perceive what's around you.
IMHO, this is a big part of why making computer sound on an AM radio is cool.
Everything I just wrote applies to the short wave bands too, though those are messy today. Best done away from a metro area.
If you want to experience this at all, score an early radio, even a vacuum tube one ( my favorite ), get a long wire and venture out somewhere and just listen.
Camping is a great time for it, and I still do every year. For an hour or two, it takes me way back to early times.
A portable, transistor one made a while ago is best and still cheap.
Older GE Super Radios are real good. The ones made prior to 2010 or so are best, and not expensive.