The wifey thought I was going nuts.

Adirondack case guy · Jan 15, 2018

I was sitting here by my compuker this morning with a cup of coffee. I mentioned that there was a helicopter coming. One of those big twin rotor ones. They have a distinct sound.
It is a real crisp clear morning here, 4F, light breeze 6-15mph and wind chill of -6. I kept looking out the window to see it. She said she couldn't hear anything where she was sitting., only 6' from me in her side of the ell cove. The sound persisted for a couple of mins. sometimes loud and other faint. I got up to look out the door to see if I could see it and the sound went away. WTF. I sat back down and sound was back again. Got the wifey to come to my chair and see if she could hear it. Whew!!!, she did, but neither of us knew what the noise was. as it had been 20 mins. that I had been hearing it.
FINALLY the bulb lit in my head. We have a big TV antenna mounted on the roof over the family room. When the wind speed got over 5mph up to about 12mph the sound was loud. Turns out that the wind blowing thru the antenna was causing it to vibrate, and the vibration was transferring down the mast to the roof mount. The ell cove created the perfect acoustics to make a sound like a helicopter out in the distance. Amassing what can happen when certain conditions are just wright.
Loren
PS- I have a Davis weather transmitter mounted on the roof also, so I could correlate the wind speed to the sound.

JF in MI · Jan 15, 2018

Harmonics
Tacoma bridge

Loren in Iowa · Jan 15, 2018

Thought the snow plow was coming by the house, scraping the street. Wife had the beaters switched around in her electric mixer.

olgentdc · Jan 15, 2018

That Wioulda been a sight to HEAR and see as it happened ,,.. It seems at times when theair and wind andif i stand in the rite spot i can hear a wrist pin , rod knok in engines at times,.but all cheks out and they are all running great ,.. and i guess i am just paranoid,... but it pays to double chek combine noises always make me stop ,idle down get out and walk around till i find the problem ,and remedy it , OR ,am satisfied all is well before starting up again ..one occassion i threw the rubber off a tire on I-264 ,.that lousiville west end traffic is the reason i did not stop on the road ,i did not have to stop to lookfor the trouble ,, i KNEW WHAT IT WAS .i slowed ,turned on my flashers and prayed the tire did not loose air until i went on over the sherman minton bridge to my pals garage in New albany . a.

kcm.MN · Jan 15, 2018

TOO FUNNY!!

In this household, she's got a nose that a bloodhound would envy, while she says I have bionic ears. Seems like every other day she hears a sound that she can't identify. Will sound to her like something is wrong, or breaking, or just plain not having a good day. We'll go through the list of what's running in the house and it doesn't take long before we finally identify the sound......AGAIN!

...Then there's the times she keeps hearing sounds that I never do. I can't knock her there, as maybe she does hear things now and then that I don't/can't. I know when it comes to animals, I've known two women who could hear an animal whimper from 1/4-mile away during a massive windstorm! Something to do with that "motherly instinct", I think?

sms · Jan 15, 2018

Had a good sized turkey fly off the hill behind the house and hit the guy wire on our antenna on the roof once. Boinginging.

paul · Jan 15, 2018

I walked in the house and heard water dripping one day. Slow, steady drip. Drip. Drip. Was hitting something hard. All over the house, looking for a pipe, water, hear it stronger and fainter.

Took me several hours to figure out......

It was the electric fencer.

The small wash sink made a perfect echo of it to make a drip sound. Other plumbing if you put your ear to it would hear the tick as well.

Was a very very dry year, had a small rain, and somehow the deep well got involved with grounding the fence to earth, even tho it is 100s of feet from the ground rod to the well.

Been here all my life, only heard that those few days until it rained again.

About drove me nuts there for a few hours.

Paul

oldhammerhead · Jan 15, 2018

I hear sounds everyday, Ringing in my ears.

Billy NY · Jan 15, 2018

I can relate to this, NYARNG always trained with Bell UH-1's around here, NYSP aviation's first rotary wing aircraft was one of these that was surplus'd. They used to land next to the former barracks here with it which was next to my house. These and the Chinook have a distinct rotor sound and it can play tricks with you in regards to location, just like you describe. I just flew in a UH-1 in October, no way one will forget the sound of these aircraft even today.

Goose · Jan 15, 2018

When I was in high school, I was home alone one evening working on homework when I began to hear a persistent "rapping" sound in the house. I couldn't figure where it was coming from, or what it was. I finally followed the sound up into the attic. I then realized the sound was coming from an old steamer trunk in the corner of the attic.

With some trepidation, I threw open the lid of the trunk and guess what I found?

Wrapping paper.

RusselAZ · Jan 15, 2018

That's so bad it is good!

pete 23 · Jan 15, 2018

I have head noises. Usually just a ringing that is always there, sometimes loud, sometimes soft. But, a few years ago I could hear something humming. It would humm fairly loud and then taper off. It was constant so I started looking at refrigerator, deep freeze, radio. Nope, wasn't there. I found the most secluded closet up stairs and stuck my head in among the clothes, still humming. Finally figured out, it was just a new noise in my head and if I held my breath it would quit. It comes and goes but not very often .

cuby · Jan 15, 2018

I have had constant buzzing in my ears for the last 7 yrs. Dr. Says nothing can be done for it other than to live with it so that is what I am doing. It is worse if I get a cold.

Adirondack case guy · Jan 15, 2018

Guys, I went through all the ringing in the ears and that, for a good number of years. Then I had several minor strokes and then heart attacks. They got me fixed up with stents and all is good now, unless my BP rises for some reason. I get the ear ringing then, and head to the pill bottle and it goes away.
This was the harmonics that the wind and antenna was setting up and transferring into the structure of the house. As I said the wifey heard it too when she came over where my compuker and chair are.
Ringing in the ears can be controlled if you closely monitor your BP with a home monitor, and have the meds handy to react to it. BTDT and still controlling it.
Loren

Cory Schmidt · Jan 15, 2018

The way sounds transfers that reminds me of a few...

when I took my motorcycle class there was a race at the nearby dirt track(like many times before). The instructor had no idea what was making the racket.
I said. heck that's close by(right across the road basically), surprising you don't hear it more often. In the right weather I can hear the horn from the Badger(its different then the train that goes though downtown Manitowoc, yes I can hear that too somedays) as it comes to or about to leave port all the way to the north side of Two Rivers.

She didn't believe me. No one believes me for that matter.

On another note my pa said there use to be an antiaircraft gun used for training the county south. Yep when they fired, you knew it here. So hard it would rattle the windows. Knew someone from the area near the gun came up to visit when they fired off a few rounds...made em jump. Told em what it was, they said no way we're right there and never hear it.

Adirondack case guy · Jan 15, 2018

It is pretty much "legend" around here now, but it was said that there was an old very big antique Ram Pump that could be heard for miles around when the weather was rite. It pumped water into overhead tanks for steam railroad engines.
Loren

johnlobb · Jan 15, 2018

Said that that Tacoma bridge was only in use for 4 months before it failed!

pete 23 · Jan 15, 2018

Different ears hear sounds differently. I cannot hear high frequency noise unless it is really loud. We had one of these little decorative birds sitting on a widow sill and when it moved a bit it would chirp. I never heard it chirp ever. Hold it right up to my ear and I could hear the little mechanism inside go clunk, clunk. Low frequency noise. All others that listened to it could not hear the chirp but not the clunk because the chirp would apparently drown out the low frequency noise. Between me and the wife we do hear most noises, her one , me another.

Adirondack case guy · Jan 15, 2018

That is as bad as Knock Knock ,who is there???
Loren

Adirondack case guy · Jan 15, 2018

I would have thought with your handle you would hear tink tink tikk sounds or bang bang sounds. HeHe
Loren

fixerupper · Jan 15, 2018

That just brought back memories. Years ago our first TV antenna would sound like a truck coming up the road when the wind blew at a certain speed. It was a kind of a rhythmic hum a little like the way a Cicada sounds only much deeper. Visitors would tell us they could hear a truck but we were used to it and didn't pay attention to it.

John in Nebraska · Jan 15, 2018

My high tones ability is gone too. Last winter wife heard a buzz, buzz for two minutes then quit. If I stood in the doorway just right I could hear it too. Not in the kitchen, or the living room, just in that doorway. She is walking around, said it seemed to be coming from everywhere. I went outside... to the basement. Finally started tripping breakers in the house. No change at all. So I got out my hearing aid, the one that drives me nut out in public. Heard the buzz, everywhere just like her. After two hours of going in circles, found an old smoke alarm I had taken down, battery was dying, was laying on a high shelf. Could of swore I took the batteries out back when. Blew the afternoon.

Married2Allis · Jan 16, 2018

I kept hearing a helicopter flying around nearby one day last year, they were cutting trees with some kind of hanging chainsaw.

The wifey thought I was going nuts.

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