Quote Originally Posted by gratewhitehuntr View Post
or you could just wallpaper your interior walls in aluminum foil and then paint it so no one would know.
windows too


have fun
That would sort of work... What about listening to the radio or watching television? You'd have to install exterior antennas to receive outside signals. And depending on how small the house is, whatever is wireless could have a TON of noise due to reflections.

Quote Originally Posted by pilothaz
The one reason is that it can pick up the stations is because the cord is acting like a antenna. I was talking with someone at my work about this a while ago. My new cell phone comes with headphones to listen to the mp3 player or the radio. You need to have the headphones hooked up if you want to hear the radio, that is because it acts as the antenna.

This is also why all cars had the standard length for the antenna (33 inches I believe b/c the wave were at 33Hz) is what I was told.
Well I wouldn't say the ONE reason is due to improper grounding (which I had already mentioned in my post). Both magnetic fields and electrical fields are involved in radio waves.

As for antenna length... That's typicall jurisdicted by wavelength, not the frequency. Although frequency and wavelength are inversely proportional (wavelength x frequency = speed of light) so it's basically the same thing...