Well- off hand, I'd say find the tuner section and carefully trace back that to the power section, assuming it has a wire to the transformer. These are all big ifs, and may not be possible to see (could be on the underside of a board, and could potentially do damage to something else if the tuner shares power. So... tread carefully, or perhaps bring it to a shop and have them screw it up!

What you are hearing may not be coming in over the tuner portion of your receiver. You can test this by seeing if you can change the station being received with the tuner control.

If not, the RF pickup is leaking in other ways and removing the tuner will not help. Try putting shorting plugs on all unused inputs.

Kal

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I'm a complete rookie when it comes to altering stereo equipment.

When my Kenwood VR-407 receiver is in AV Auxiliary mode it picks up a radio station; thus, when I'm playing music with my iTunes airport (which is hooked up to as the Auxiliary) I also hear the annoying radio station going simultaneously.

I took off the cover and removed the board that has the atennae, but that didn't do the trick. Is there a single wire I can snip? I have plenty of other devices to listen to the radio.

Thanks,
Aaron

Oh, for crying-out-loud. Don't listen to these guys. Your receiver is broken. Buy another one before it or you burns down your house.

What the hell is the matter with you guys? This poster might be ten years old for all you know. At the very least he is no MacGyver working on a bomb. Or is he at the hands of a few audiophiles? The filling in my teeth picks up radio stations but you don't see me pulling them out.

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The filling in my teeth picks up radio stations but you don't see me pulling them out.

Have you tried shorting plugs?

Kal

I've tried everything including dropping a plugged-in transistor radio into the tub with me. All that accomplished was self-induced electroshock therapy. If you've ever been electrocuted you know what I mean.

I'd agree with Kal. If you can't change the frequency you hear by changing the frequency on the tuner, your problem is RF pickup in a poorly designed receiver or possibly very dirty connections acting as diodes. A thorough cleaning by a technician should solve the latter.

Try the shorting plugs - if you don't know how to make them, just ask.

If the frequency changes with the tuner dial, then you still have issues with your receiver and yanking the tuner is not the answer.

I would disagree with LS that you are in any danger from this. However, you are not McGyver and really shouldn't have your hands inside an electrical component.

One time, many years ago before the Internet but after Cable, I opened up a TV and was looking around to see how things were connected. You know what I mean. Anyway, I saw this one large cable going to the CRT. I said, "Hum, looks like it just pull right out *KABOOM!*. Lights out. Came to and had this smell in the air like lightning before a spring shower. I really felt good the rest of the day. Lots of energy without the melancholy of a rainy spring day. I'm a big advocate of electrocution and good moods. But not too much.

One of my favorite web pages (now gone blank) had always been "Experiments in Electrocution". It was a warning page to all those DIY'ers who thought they had far more skill and knowledge than they actually posssesed.

"What the hell is the matter with you guys? This poster might be ten years old for all you know."

Hey, I was counting on it. Isn't the fun of giving advice online that you can cause death and destruction with little personal consequences? Anyway- agreed that it's probably just RF leak from something else- forgot about that issue.

Notice we haven't heard back from the OP? Uh oh...

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One of my favorite web pages (now gone blank) had always been "Experiments in Electrocution". It was a warning page to all those DIY'ers who thought they had far more skill and knowledge than they actually posssesed.

That needs to come back. Do you have the original url? Maybe the Wayback Machine has it archived.

This is all I have; http://www.netaxs.com/~vkalia/diy.html

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.netaxs.com/~vkalia/diy.html

"Fun with Fibrillation"! That's it!

Bookmarked now. Thank you, LS.