Interesting Event: A40 Interceptor?

[Black Logik]

Ok so, one night I powered on my game station (TV, Laptop, 360 and A40s of Course), and while I let everything get started I went down to get some snacks. When I got back I put on my A40s and noticed something very strange...

I heard a conversation very faintly coming into my ears. So I took off my headset and listened. No one was home; it was dead silence in my house. I wasn't sign in on my computer or my 360, so where was this coming from?

I put the headset back on and I noticed I only heard it with the headset on. So I listened closely to the conversation and tried to make out what they were saying. I could pick up a few words here and there but i couldn't tell who was talking, what they were saying or where this was even coming from.

I believe there are several possibilities:

1) This could be sort of like when you pick up your landline phone and hear someone else's conversation who isn't on the phone with you or in your house.

2) My A40 could be picking up Radio signals from a radio station.

3) I live in DC, so what if I was picking up like some top secret conversation through a hidden radio signal.

If it was either one of these there is still some things that don't make since like... how the heck a gaming headset was picking up radio signals. I have had a similar situation in my home where my TV was off but was picking up a radio station very faintly. But I believe my TV may have an antena in it, considering its one of those old big boxy big screen TVs.

Is there an Antena in the Astros that we dont know about?

Thoughts...

[ittekimasu]

Eh that sounds freaky sounded like more if a start to a horror story.

[PreFLecT]

astros dont use wireless signals so dont no what happend

[Nevermind]

Your astros are haunted.

you're going to have to get them exorcised immediately.

[ASTRO Warblade]

It can happen with cables that don't have that great of insulation. I used to get this a lot on my guitar gear/amps. Switched out some cables and it stopped.

[i_2_the_rish]

Option . But for real... that's kinda cool and strange... if it happens again try to get the words and post...

[Black Logik]

It can happen with cables that don't have that great of insulation. I used to get this a lot on my guitar gear/amps. Switched out some cables and it stopped.

Its not like its a problem, I just thought it ineteresting. I would really like for a staff member to put their ideas of what happened in this thread.

[Nevermind]

It can happen with cables that don't have that great of insulation. I used to get this a lot on my guitar gear/amps. Switched out some cables and it stopped.

I'm a musician to, I use double shielded quad core cables.

although that does nothing when you have a cheap volume pedal that picks up some foreign radio station and blasts it out of your stack hahahahahaha.

[warri]

It can happen with cables that don't have that great of insulation. I used to get this a lot on my guitar gear/amps. Switched out some cables and it stopped.


Its not like its a problem, I just thought it ineteresting. I would really like for a staff member to put their ideas of what happened in this thread.


I'm a musician to, I use double shielded quad core cables.

although that does nothing when you have a cheap volume pedal that picks up some foreign radio station and blasts it out of your stack hahahahahaha.

This is due to the inherit quality of radio signals. You see, radio waves are generated by moving electrons, up and down an antenna, This generates a wave with a certain frequency (the freq of the electron moving up and down, or side to side through the antenna). This wave then moves the electrons on the receiving antenna to the same frequency, and through a bit more decoding, and more complicated circuitry (not that complicated but too lazy to explain it in detail) you get your radio signal.

This is probably the cause of your mysterious voices, that or like someone said above, your Astros are Haunted, who knows, maybe its a former PRO trying to give you tips!

-Dave

[Black Logik]

This is due to the inherit quality of radio signals. You see, radio waves are generated by moving electrons, up and down an antenna, This generates a wave with a certain frequency (the freq of the electron moving up and down, or side to side through the antenna). This wave then moves the electrons on the receiving antenna to the same frequency, and through a bit more decoding, and more complicated circuitry (not that complicated but too lazy to explain it in detail) you get your radio signal.

This is probably the cause of your mysterious voices, that or like someone said above, your Astros are Haunted, who knows, maybe its a former PRO trying to give you tips!

-Dave

Ok you explained how radio waves work but you didnt explain how radio waves got in my headset.

I dont know of any dead pros who would haunt someones headset. Plus I am pretty sure it was two people.

[ASTRO stanimal]

Hi Black Logik,

That is REALLY odd, I've asked around this morning and no one's heard of anything like this before. To answer your question, there's no such antennae in the headset or MixAmp and the cabling is all shielded from interference. It simply could be literally the perfect set of circumstances for some kind of signal to come through your home's power system, Xbox, TV, or whatever.

Are you plugged into our MixAmp when this happens? Do you use an optical cable? What else is the MixAmp plugged into?

You can try running batteries in the MixAmp and taking it off of USB power or vice-versa.

Let me know!

- ASTRO Stanimal

[Black Logik]

Hi Black Logik,

That is REALLY odd, I've asked around this morning and no one's heard of anything like this before. To answer your question, there's no such antennae in the headset or MixAmp and the cabling is all shielded from interference. It simply could be literally the perfect set of circumstances for some kind of signal to come through your home's power system, Xbox, TV, or whatever.

Are you plugged into our MixAmp when this happens? Do you use an optical cable? What else is the MixAmp plugged into?

You can try running batteries in the MixAmp and taking it off of USB power or vice-versa.

Let me know!

- ASTRO Stanimal

Yeah I figured this would be some type of freak occurrence. But yes I have my Headset plugged into the original MixAmp with an optical cable that went into my 360. The MixAmp was also connected to my controller for voice communication and simultaneously into the Music Fairy 2.0 for voice communication from my PS3 (Which was off at the time.

You know what, come to think of it, my TV has a USB port in it which I use to power my MixAmp, maybe that could have had something to do with it....

[ASTRO stanimal]

Give it a shot and let us know!

- ASTRO Stanimal

[Black Logik]

Give it a shot and let us know!

- ASTRO Stanimal

Well actually that is always the case... I have always powered my MixAmp from my TV. But on this one occasion it was interesting to experience that. It never happened before that or never after. So I don't know what cause it for it only happened for a couple of minutes...

[ASTRO stanimal]

Weird. I think we can chalk it up to simply "weird". :)

- ASTRO Stanimal

[Black Logik]

Weird. I think we can chalk it up to simply "weird". :)

- ASTRO Stanimal

Lol,

Case: Closed

Cause: Unknown

[DBakerr]

What if it was some crazy alien transmission from Jupiter?!

[PreFLecT]

^^NAH EVERY1 KNOWS ALIENS ARE FROM MARS Pfft what a silly idea

[iamthejae]

Your astros are haunted.

you're going to have to get them exorcised immediately.




I dont know of any dead pros who would haunt someones headset. Plus I am pretty sure it was two people.

you need to see your local holy man, stat! the docotor has prescribed exorcism and until the demons are cleansed you shall be playing halo with ghosts and ghouls, oooooooooo

i know the first thing i did to my astros was give them a proper blessing, cant ever be to safe you konw, with all those undead souls and what not.

[InsaneDC]

Yea it's almost exactly how the Zune is actually designed to pick up a radio signal through the cord of the headphones. Strange yet cheaper on the manufacturer i guess.

[ninjikiran]

Years ago on a pair of cheap headphones I picked up someone on some radio. It was kinda cool, but didn't happen again.