I noticed this phenomenon once when I was still in high school. I was listening to the radio and there was a real bad storm brewing outside. So the reception wasn’t too good. And yet, just by chance, I noticed when I stood in one particular spot in the room, the radio reception improved! Was I just imagining it? Or was it just coincidence? I did it a couple times to verify.
So what was it?
P.S. Sorry about the blank post. But I submitted it the right way and yet my text didn’t appear until I readded it just now. (Talk about strange phenomenon.)
Jim B… basically the human body makes a pretty good antenna. If you stand in the right place you can actually amplify the signal.
Jim B… basically the human body makes a pretty good antenna. If you stand in the right place you can actually amplify the signal.
Have you ever noticed that when you’re driving slowly in your car, such as approaching the last few feet of a red light, that the reception fades in and out? The FM radio waves bounce off of nearby buildings and bridges, creating a pattern of peaks and valleys in the strength of the signal. It’s called multipath distortion. If you stop in a low point, you can usually improve it by moving by half a wavelength, which in the case of FM radio would be about 5 feet.