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Mystery #3Tier 2-3radio waves resonance

How does a radio pluck one station out of all the signals in the air at once?

Right now the air around you is crammed with invisible radio waves: dozens of stations, all arriving at your radio at the very same time, all mixed together. Yet when you turn the dial you hear just one, clear and alone. How does the radio pick a single station out of the crowd and ignore all the rest?

The inside of a 1920s valve radio with its lid open, showing glass valves and the fanned metal plates of the variable capacitor used to tune it, above a brass tuning dial.
Photo: Joe Haupt · CC BY-SA 2.0 · via Wikimedia Commons

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