How to not hear Mylie Cyrus when I am playing guitar?
You know what, now I actually want to not use a guitar for radio receiving and use it to play guitar and although comical to hear Mylie Cyrus after I have played an anti-corporate song, I would like to not hear Mylie Cyrus anymore.
Would some ferrite chokes on my guitar cable help do you think?
This is in the middle of the night, I think that might help the stations come in louder. That also means that I should probably stop playing now and go to bed before the neighbors call the cops. I don't want to play with headphones because they suck and don't sound like the guitar speaker cabinet. Its unfortunate that I started playing at 11:00 at night because earlier I was busy desodering and resodering the ground connection on my guitar output jack.
Just as bad as hearing Mylie Cyrus, when I stand with my guitar perpendicular to the south west I hear a Mexican polka station. When I stand with my guitar perpendicular to the north east thank God I can change the station and I hear Papa Roach on the active rock station 95 WIIL Rock. So now I'm at a total of 6 stations depending on the direction I face, and the directionality appears to not affect WBBM. The navigational beacons OBK and ORD appear to be highly directional, thus why airplanes can use them to find O'hare. I guess that higher frequencies are more directional, so since aviation is higher frequency than FM it is even more directional than FM.
but I would rather listen to 95 WIIL Rock on a real radio rather than on my guitar, so I want to make it a guitar only, and not a radio.
My Grundig muli-band radio receiver is the best quality radio that I have that sounds even better than my car radio. It has a telescopic antenna. It sounds louder if the antenna is made longer. So longer antenna = louder? -- wrong (for FM). Longer antenna = picks up more crap (for FM). I can use a hanger split in half attached with masking tape to the telescopic antenna top faced perpendicular in the direction of the favorite FM station (95.1). If that directionality allows the station to be heard on my guitar, then certaintly it ought to be a massive improvement in quality for the Grundig radio for that station, maybe enough quality to record music from the radio that is even better quality than YouTube (whos gonna stop me). So at least I learned something useful.
Edit: now I tried the coat hanger trick for the radio (I found out that I don't even have to cut through metal all I have to do is untwist the metal and strip it of paint at where it will contact the telescopic antenna) and I found that its accuracy meter reads 30% with trimmer capacitor at minimum clockwise and dipole facing perpendicular to northwest, its accuracy meter reads 40% with trimmer capacitor at maximum clockwise and dipole facing perpendicular to northwest, its accuracy meter reads 55% with trimmer capacitor at minimum clockwise and dipole facing perpendicular to northeast, and its accuracy meter reads 70% with trimmer capacitor at maximum clockwise and dipole facing perpendicular to northeast.
You know what, now I actually want to not use a guitar for radio receiving and use it to play guitar and although comical to hear Mylie Cyrus after I have played an anti-corporate song, I would like to not hear Mylie Cyrus anymore.
Would some ferrite chokes on my guitar cable help do you think?
This is in the middle of the night, I think that might help the stations come in louder. That also means that I should probably stop playing now and go to bed before the neighbors call the cops. I don't want to play with headphones because they suck and don't sound like the guitar speaker cabinet. Its unfortunate that I started playing at 11:00 at night because earlier I was busy desodering and resodering the ground connection on my guitar output jack.
Just as bad as hearing Mylie Cyrus, when I stand with my guitar perpendicular to the south west I hear a Mexican polka station. When I stand with my guitar perpendicular to the north east thank God I can change the station and I hear Papa Roach on the active rock station 95 WIIL Rock. So now I'm at a total of 6 stations depending on the direction I face, and the directionality appears to not affect WBBM. The navigational beacons OBK and ORD appear to be highly directional, thus why airplanes can use them to find O'hare. I guess that higher frequencies are more directional, so since aviation is higher frequency than FM it is even more directional than FM.
but I would rather listen to 95 WIIL Rock on a real radio rather than on my guitar, so I want to make it a guitar only, and not a radio.
My Grundig muli-band radio receiver is the best quality radio that I have that sounds even better than my car radio. It has a telescopic antenna. It sounds louder if the antenna is made longer. So longer antenna = louder? -- wrong (for FM). Longer antenna = picks up more crap (for FM). I can use a hanger split in half attached with masking tape to the telescopic antenna top faced perpendicular in the direction of the favorite FM station (95.1). If that directionality allows the station to be heard on my guitar, then certaintly it ought to be a massive improvement in quality for the Grundig radio for that station, maybe enough quality to record music from the radio that is even better quality than YouTube (whos gonna stop me). So at least I learned something useful.
Edit: now I tried the coat hanger trick for the radio (I found out that I don't even have to cut through metal all I have to do is untwist the metal and strip it of paint at where it will contact the telescopic antenna) and I found that its accuracy meter reads 30% with trimmer capacitor at minimum clockwise and dipole facing perpendicular to northwest, its accuracy meter reads 40% with trimmer capacitor at maximum clockwise and dipole facing perpendicular to northwest, its accuracy meter reads 55% with trimmer capacitor at minimum clockwise and dipole facing perpendicular to northeast, and its accuracy meter reads 70% with trimmer capacitor at maximum clockwise and dipole facing perpendicular to northeast.
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