Turntable as tuner?


My turntable seems to be picking up a radio station. Also {maybe this is related?), I have to turn the volume way up (compared to the cd player) in order to listen to records at a reasonable level. The turntable is a Pro-ject RM4 w/Project 9 tonearm & Sumiko Pearl MM cartridge connected to a Pro-ject Phono Box and B&K PT3 preamp. All the connections (including the ground) seem tight. Any ideas?
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RFI unbound: when I was a kid so many decades ago, I had a friend that lived across the road from a fifty thousand watt broadcast am transmitter. When I went to his bathroom, his house radiators worked like a tuner. And the copper played the radio out of the sink. No kidding. Leaping from '69 to '99, I was listening to my cd when orders came from the boss to go to the store for milk. So I get in the car im my garage and the radio comes on. At first I think, how weird, I was just listening to 'El Cant de la Sibilla' in the house as I realized how stupid I was for thinking even for a second that would be on my radio. On the other hand maybe it is bleed through. Do the above mentioned test.