Bizarre radio experience

On 23/10/07 8:19 AM, C J Campbell wrote:
On 2007-10-22 12:26:27 -0700, (Don Poitras) said:
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You know, that is so weird, that maybe someone over in mac.hardware
might know something about it.

So, for you non-fliers -- translated a little bit -- this pilot reports
that he was hearing radio calls from many different airports and
airplanes which were all supposed to be on different frequencies. He
could hear so many transmissions on so many frequencies that he could
barely understand what was going on. He was wearing a LightSpeed headset
with an iPod plugged into it -- many pilot headsets have a jack for
listening to iPods and stuff.

Now, he tried turning off the airplane intercom and just listen to the
radios, but the problem persisted. Finally, in desperation, he turned
off all his airplane's radios! And he still heard all these
transmissions! Then he unplugged his iPhone from the jack on his headset
and he finally stopped hearing the radio transmissions. Plug the iPod
back in, he hears the radios. Unplug it, they go away.

This has to be almost as good as the story about hearing radios with the
fillings in your teeth. Got any idea what was going on?



His tin-foil hat came loose as he wasn't wearing it in the right
'direction'?

A.