Shielded cables

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Both of my cables gave me the same results... one isn't a Monster (Horizon, I think, I stole it .... I mean I was given it by a friend). Is this grounding issue something I can easily fix myself, or should I take it somewhere? I checked all the soldering, and it seems to be good, and the wire doesn't seem to be broken anywhere, but I noticed the cable runs through the wood somewhere, but where does that go? That's the one I haven't checked. I guess if anyone has a picture of what the back of the Paul should look like, that'd be nice, but probably any Les Paul is the same (right?).
 
It's the guitar. Take it someplace because it everything looks OK, there is a component failure.
 
The grounding issue could be within your amp. If the jack inside the amp or the power supply or some part of the chassis (a million little place), or something like a decoupling capacitor has given up the ghost, the guitar cable is going to act exactly as you say, an antenna.

Seems like you've tried all the normal/prudent things short of getting into an electronics troubleshooting mode. There's one more thing you might consider, open up the amp, and look for the obvious but I warn you to do this with extreme caution. But to be honest, it seems like it's time to take it in.

If you decide to take it in, insist on showing the tech exactly what you're experiencing. The most costly and time consuming thing you could do is take it in, drop it off and get a call back a couple hours later from the tech saying, I did xyz and it's ready. If you can't show him exactly what the problem is, eg. he can't duplicate it, you might be able to save yourself the bench charge for a "no trouble found" ticket.
 
Well, this happened with a different small amp I had last year, too, a Danelectro (now I'm using a little Marshall 15 watt, I think), but it doesn't seem to happen at all for my friends, even if they don't have a guitar plugged in. So I guess it could be the guitar, which would explain why I'm the only one with this problem. So basically, from what I gather, if I get the guitar fixed, even if there's a radio signal without the guitar plugged in, it should go away when I do plug the guitar in? Or am I misreading that? Thanks guys.

Actually, I just noticed that my brand new Takamine still gets the radio, so maybe it is the amp? Or do acoustics just sort of do that?
 
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