AM:FM Radio Static

The scrolling wheel keeps turning but no strong signal can be found, just faint hints of something familiar poking through the sizzling static. You keep spinning through the sounds, scowling at the dingy, dusty piece of electronics as the days and weeks wander past your weary ears. The noisy speaker seems to stare back at you as if it too was waiting for something intelligible to emerge from the shadowy chasm behind the grill. A comfort no longer, this busted radio needs to get tossed to the trash. In radio reception, noise is the superposition of white noise (also called "static") and other disturbing influences on the signal, caused either by thermal noise and other electronic noise from receiver input circuits or by interference from radiated electromagnetic noise picked up by the receiver's antenna. Atmospheric noise is radio noise caused by natural atmospheric processes, primarily lightning discharges in thunderstorms. Cosmic background noise is experienced at frequencies above about 15 MHz when highly directional antennas are pointed toward the sun or to certain other regions of the sky such as the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. This sound uses the following file from Freesound: http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=110739