I am on the lake minding my own business, and some rain clouds start coming my way. Nothing major really, a little rain that lasted no more than five minutes before the clouds went away. What was strange was the sound.
A few minutes before the rain, I started hearing this faint hissing sound. Upon paying a bit more attention, it turned out to be a high frequency buzzing coming from the radio antenna and behind the panel in the vicinity of the radio (VHF). The sound was then accompanied by a ticking sound that got faster and faster. I turned off the radio, but there was no change in either sound. The buzzing was definitely coming from the antenna, and the route that the cable follows to the radio, and the ticking was persistent. After the rain, the sounds were gone.
Has anyone experienced anything like this? I would think it might have to do with some electrical discharge from the clouds, but this was not an electrical storm. It was not a storm to start with, either. Just some weak clouds that passed by. Any ideas?
CE
A few minutes before the rain, I started hearing this faint hissing sound. Upon paying a bit more attention, it turned out to be a high frequency buzzing coming from the radio antenna and behind the panel in the vicinity of the radio (VHF). The sound was then accompanied by a ticking sound that got faster and faster. I turned off the radio, but there was no change in either sound. The buzzing was definitely coming from the antenna, and the route that the cable follows to the radio, and the ticking was persistent. After the rain, the sounds were gone.
Has anyone experienced anything like this? I would think it might have to do with some electrical discharge from the clouds, but this was not an electrical storm. It was not a storm to start with, either. Just some weak clouds that passed by. Any ideas?
CE
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