{"id":1720,"date":"2026-07-28T13:53:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T20:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/?p=1720"},"modified":"2026-07-28T13:53:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T20:53:40","slug":"the-hum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2026\/07\/28\/the-hum\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"417\" src=\"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot_20260728_134424_Sound-Spectrum-Analyzer-1-1024x417.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1724\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot_20260728_134424_Sound-Spectrum-Analyzer-1-1024x417.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot_20260728_134424_Sound-Spectrum-Analyzer-1-300x122.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot_20260728_134424_Sound-Spectrum-Analyzer-1-768x313.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot_20260728_134424_Sound-Spectrum-Analyzer-1-1536x625.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot_20260728_134424_Sound-Spectrum-Analyzer-1-2048x834.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot_20260728_134424_Sound-Spectrum-Analyzer-1-1200x489.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Hum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Hum<\/a> is driving me a bit crazy. I first noticed it this year at the cabin and thought it must be a boat\/plane that I couldn&#8217;t see. Then I heard it at home when the house was quiet and it bothered me especially when trying to fall asleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One morning I went outside to try to track down the source and my ears led me to a noisy electrical transformer on a pole nearby. I complained to BC Hydro and to their credit they sent a crew to investigate right away. No follow up though so I assume, and have read, that transformer hum is normal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Next time at the cabin I heard the hum again. Strange because there is no power at the cabin and I started to think that it could be in my head, i.e., low frequency tinnitus. So I installed an audio spectrum analyzer app on my phone and there it was, as shown in the screenshot above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At least I know the hum is real and not in my head.  I am learning to ignore it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hum is driving me a bit crazy. I first noticed it this year at the cabin and thought it must be a boat\/plane that I couldn&#8217;t see. Then I heard it at home when the house was quiet and it bothered me especially when trying to fall asleep. One morning I went outside to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2026\/07\/28\/the-hum\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Hum&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden-bay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1720"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1727,"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions\/1727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}