My Mesa half stack is playing a radio station wtf?

[Mario8672]

i turned it on, turned it up, and I'm hearing this weird radio station about Jesus or something. It's weird. The amp is only connected to an AC outlet and my guitar, no pedals or anything. How is this even possible, explanation?

[thetroy]

God is telling you to get the band back together

[Cygnus X1]

Been to church lately?
They are calling you back.
Seriously, though...there was a similar post a month ago.
It might be a bad ground somewhere.

[ozzuk1]

I was able to pick up russian or an eastern european countries radio when I plugged my danelectro od into my valve amp

It's strang but nothing to worry about too much I wouldnt have thought...

[jgcable]

Its one of three things..

Bad ground
Bad instrument cable
Bad speaker cable

[Mario8672]

Well, my guitar cable is ace, so I'll check the other two.
Thanks

[Dreamland_Rebel]

it doesn't have to be a bad cable. even a good cable can sometimes pickup radio stations. it just starts acting like an antenna.

[wakeUPdead]

God is telling you to get the band back together

/thread

[soc_monki]

it doesn't have to be a bad cable. even a good cable can sometimes pickup radio stations. it just starts acting like an antenna.

guitar amps are just like any other electronic device...they can (and probably will) pick up interference...ive heard radio stations many times through my amp. nothing to be worried about.

[Strat God]

You're hearing short-wave radios - probably from other continents.
Happens under certain atmospherical conditions.

[VitaminG]

lucky bugger. My amp won't do that, so I had to buy a separate radio

[Vlover]

You are rockin to hard dude

[DC_rhoads82]

my other amp used to do that. Just pickin up interference, I wouldn't worry.

[roodyrocker]

I've had my Randall RM100 do this at practice too. I found that if I disconnected my cable to the footswitch for the amp, it quieted down most of the radio signal. The Randall RM100 uses a midi cable to connect the footswitch to the amp and apparently that can act as an antenna as mentioned earlier. Never had it do this at a gig though, just at practice.

[JC_Denton]

You must be hearing things.......