Low level humming

Tue 30 Jan 2018, 09:19

The most likely culprits are the power transformers - the sub-stations - that are dotted around the town. They do produce a low-frequency hum that you may or may not hear (wherever you are in town) depending on the wind direction at the time.

Sat 27 Jan 2018, 15:20

I think it's more of a whine. It can be regularly heard in and around Charlbury.

Fri 26 Jan 2018, 12:21

Is anyone hearing a low hum? Seems worse at night and it seems not everyone can hear it.

Tue 13 Jul 2010, 11:35

Perhaps you should get other people to listen with you, at the same time? Or try listening in other places?

Tue 13 Jul 2010, 10:35

Well, the noise is still around after the festival. I checked once a while back in the late evening and could hear it outside, but haven't been able to confirm this since (picking the wrong time to try to hear a low-level noise). If I do hear it outside, then what's my next step to getting it identified? The council?

Wed 7 Jul 2010, 22:14

Hmmmmmmmm...

Tue 6 Jul 2010, 05:53

Is it the same sound as this time last years hum,maybe it could be making a comeback .

Mon 5 Jul 2010, 10:06

has the humk gone?

If so, was probably something at the festival...

Mon 5 Jul 2010, 00:55

Can you estimate what frequency the hum is at? Usually these things are eliminated from being the dread HUM by som,ething banal in the building like power supplies buzzing at some resonance of 50hz, fluorescent lights ditto, ,water turbulence in heating systems resonating with the pipe and house structure resonances, and so forth. The article did find real experiences of people hearing a noise when most alternative explanations had been exhausted, but mostly they were found out to be innoccuos in origin.

Sat 3 Jul 2010, 23:29

So, seriously ... I don't recall hearing this hum before Thursday night, which makes me think it might be related to Cornbury Festival. Generators or something. I hope it goes away after Tuesday, and if not, then I'll be having to make enquiries with the council. It's starting to really get on my nerves -- I sure hope it isn't something permanent.

Sat 3 Jul 2010, 22:20

Oh, err ah hum blush

Sat 3 Jul 2010, 21:41

Malcolm Tut Tut. Thought we heard a lesser spotted vuvuzela today.

Sat 3 Jul 2010, 19:42

Malcolm, a possible link to a porn site eh! Thats where's the humming is from - Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!

Fri 2 Jul 2010, 19:53

There are a lot of people hearing "The Hum" around the country and it has been the subject of some news articles and I seem to recall a mention of it in New Scientist, and seems distributed locally around the whole country. Some people hear it, some don't. Check it out on a google (or ----- or whatever as it doesn't plant google's surveillance cookies on your 'pooter). How close are you to a power transformer dropping voltage to 240 and splitting up the phases to houses? They commonly hum at 50hz and perhaps your new extension jealousy is acting as a resonator in some way...

Completely inappropriate link removed. Please, take the five seconds to check that you are not directing people to, ahem, a porn site before posting some link that you half remember. Thank you. --Richard

Fri 2 Jul 2010, 08:58

The distant sound of returning England fans in Chadlington playing their vuvuzelas?!

Fri 2 Jul 2010, 06:04

Roger Whittaker's playing Cornbury, perhaps he's warming up?

Fri 2 Jul 2010, 00:33

I don't know ... it's *constant* and has been going on for 24 hours now. It's like a very deep buzz or hum. Last night, there seemed to be no breaks in the noise at all, whereas today there was more of a buzzzzzzzz buzz buzzzzzzzzz to it.

Aliens?

Thu 1 Jul 2010, 22:59

Hay making?

Thu 1 Jul 2010, 22:24

Anyone notice an incessant low level, deep humming lately? I started noticing it on Wednesday night, and then all day today. First, I thought it was my ears, but someone else heard it, too. Then I thought it was my plumbing or my fish tanks or my refrigerator, but when I went outside to bring the laundry in, I could hear it outside, too.

Suggestions? Theories?