Radio Weird

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When using VLF AM radio, one will hear a strange whistling sound that descends rapidly.  That would be lightning.  There is lightning going off somewhere on the earth every second of everyday.  A lightning flash penetrates the plasma bands which then race around the earth like ripples in a pond.  The highest frequencies of the band travel faster than the low frequencies so that the VLF receiver hears a sound that falls in pitch.  It is called "whistlers" for this reason.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeuI8AJMIxU

Auroras produce radio frequencies that are appropriately called the "dawn chorus":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD3CBY2CnXg

This is the sound of a solar flare.  Be grateful for earth's magnetic field without which these solar bursts would kill us:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqtoC-I52FQ

Radio frequencies from Saturn are quite bizarre.  Some believe them to be alien transmissions.  Ignore the visuals of this clip which are bogus but the sounds are interesting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZDTBlBzm80

Here is an Over the Horizon radar signal caught on shortwave:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaxgXnahajs

This one is called "spine chilling" although no explanation is given as to why.  I find it quite relaxing.  It sounds to me like something atmospheric:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnLi4NCEKrY

This is UVB 76, a Russian station that for year broadcast nothing but this strange signal except occasionally it was interrupted by a voice speaking Russian:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lHkONy37nA

The Swedish Rhapsody Music Box signal is definitely one of the strangest broadcasts by any intelligence agency:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdnoAJ7KoFE

This is believed to be an MI-6 broadcast from England which was dubbed "the Lincolnshire Poacher".  Be careful with this one or it will give you an earworm:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnXPqUU6fI0

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The bizarre (but rather hilarious) Max Headroom incident on November 22, 1987:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NteORzWN7o

To my knowledge, the perpetrators were never caught