# You say its posible to hear 22mhz without a radio **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [February 25, 2011, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-say-its-posible-to-hear-22mhz-without-a-radio/572543 "2011-02-25T05:02:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Matthew\_Alastor\_Webb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bb73d2/32.png) [@Matthew\_Alastor\_Webb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Matthew_Alastor_Webb)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-say-its-posible-to-hear-22mhz-without-a-radio/572543/1 "2011-02-25T05:02:13Z")
Well well well. Im not gona rant cuz the concept is the same only i can prove it how you ask ?I’m doing it right now yes i just found out i have this ability and made sence of the puzzle ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-say-its-posible-to-hear-22mhz-without-a-radio/572543/2 "2011-02-25T18:00:39Z")
Great! Could you post the answer in english? ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-say-its-posible-to-hear-22mhz-without-a-radio/572543/3 "2011-02-25T18:26:02Z")
\ The closest I could find is this: [http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/657/is-it-possible-to-hear-radio-broadcasts-through-your-teeth](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/657/is-it-possible-to-hear-radio-broadcasts-through-your-teeth) Mr. Webb, since there are many columns, and this stays around a while, we like to have you link to the column in question. If this is the wrong one, please post the correct one. simple as cutting and pasting the URL, like I did above. The system will add the tags automagically. Thank you. \ ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-say-its-posible-to-hear-22mhz-without-a-radio/572543/4 "2011-02-25T21:14:30Z")
if you can get down to 15 meters, then i could transmit and you give me a RST. otherwise do you get USB or FSK? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-say-its-posible-to-hear-22mhz-without-a-radio/572543/5 "2011-02-25T21:51:31Z")
> [@Matthew\_Alastor\_Webb](#): > > Well well well. Im not gona rant cuz the concept is the same only i can prove it how you ask ?I’m doing it right now yes i just found out i have this ability and made sence of the puzzle How long have you been hearing these sounds that nobody else can hear? ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-say-its-posible-to-hear-22mhz-without-a-radio/572543/6 "2011-02-26T00:11:35Z")
Are you sure you mean 22 mHz? Not 22 MHz or 22 kHz? ---
**Author:** ![Vlad\_Igor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Vlad\_Igor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vlad_Igor)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-say-its-posible-to-hear-22mhz-without-a-radio/572543/7 "2011-02-26T14:02:34Z")
> [@johnpost](#): > > if you can get down to 15 meters, then i could transmit and you give me a RST. > > otherwise do you get USB or FSK? CQ CQ CQ… (phone, please; I could never get the hang of CW) ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-say-its-posible-to-hear-22mhz-without-a-radio/572543/8 "2011-02-26T15:03:43Z")
I’m going to go out on a limb here and presume that what the OP is asking is “Even if you could detect radio waves how could someone hear a frequency that is much higher than the range of human hearing?”. My w.a.g. would be some sort of heterodyning; if something (like fillings) was almost but not quite in resonance with the radio frequency you’d get a “beat” that could be within human hearing.