Slow This Bird Down Morse Code

akrotiri · Post by **akrotiri** » Wed Jun 12, 2013 5:49 pm

Greetings Canadians.

Those who don't know me, I'm a big radio enthusiast. Ham radio, yadda yadda yadda. Besides the point.

I was listening to Slow this Bird Down one day, and noticed the morse code ("CW") at the end.
So, I was curious, and decided to decode it.

It was a ham radio callsign "GM3DSK".
I searched for this callsign, but it doesn't exist.

But what does?
G3DSK.

I look up this callsign.
The owner?
"Ra Lord".
Located just outside of London.

When you visit scotland, you'd add an M to the beginning.

Could this be some guy caught in action - or one of the Brothers?

I thought this was interesting.

Kathleen · Post by **Kathleen** » Wed Jun 12, 2013 5:58 pm

I don't get the "when you visit scotland, you'd add an M to the beginning" part. Do you mean if you wanted to find the Ra Lord ham radio station from Scotland, you'd need to add an M? Sorry, I know NOTHING about ham radio.

What's on the station?

akrotiri · Post by **akrotiri** » Wed Jun 12, 2013 6:01 pm

Kathleen wrote:I don't get the "when you visit scotland, you'd add an M to the beginning" part. Do you mean if you wanted to find the Ra Lord ham radio station from Scotland, you'd need to add an M? Sorry, I know NOTHING about ham radio.

What's on the station?

Say I'm from England. My callsign, for simplicity, would be G1A. If I visited Scotland, went on the radio, I would use GM1A.

And "what's on it" isn't quite anything - ham radio stations exist to talk to each other, like over Skype or something - just over radio waves.

Kathleen · Post by **Kathleen** » Wed Jun 12, 2013 6:05 pm

Ah! I understand now. Thanks for making it clearer!

I wonder what would happen if you tried to talk to Ra Lord?

I'm guessing nothing, but it could be fun to try.

akrotiri · Post by **akrotiri** » Wed Jun 12, 2013 6:07 pm

Kathleen wrote:Ah! I understand now. Thanks for making it clearer!

I wonder what would happen if you tried to talk to Ra Lord?

I'm guessing nothing, but it could be fun to try.

You'd have to find him first.
and from what I can tell, there's been no logs of him on the air.

miklatov · Post by **miklatov** » Wed Jun 12, 2013 6:16 pm

Interesting stuff!

Ra was the Egyptian sun god, and (according to wiki

) is associated with the hawk.

Tenuous bird connection to song title? Yeah, I reckon I'm reading too much into it, but hey

StarblazerUK · Post by **StarblazerUK** » Wed Jun 12, 2013 6:21 pm

Call sign G3DSK = a Mr Alan Lord, initials R A Lord.

Headphase · Post by **Headphase** » Wed Jun 12, 2013 6:28 pm

This is interesting! Maybe there are some more codes in TCH that we haven't found yet.....

akrotiri · Post by **akrotiri** » Wed Jun 12, 2013 6:51 pm

StarblazerUK wrote:Call sign G3DSK = a Mr Alan Lord, initials R A Lord.

Damn, never really thought to look it up.
Herp.

Well, there is no R in the name!

Torn n Frayed · Post by **Torn n Frayed** » Wed Jun 12, 2013 7:00 pm

Headphase wrote:This is interesting! Maybe there are some more codes in TCH that we haven't found yet.....

Not sure if anyone else had heard it before but in Satellite Anthem Icarus you can hear the title spoken in time with the music at the end of the tune.

Mexicola · Post by **Mexicola** » Wed Jun 12, 2013 7:05 pm

How have I never even wondered about that Morse before?!? Slow This Bird Down is only my all time favorite BOC track.

Negamuse · Post by **Negamuse** » Wed Jun 12, 2013 7:57 pm

StarblazerUK wrote:Call sign G3DSK = a Mr Alan Lord, initials R A Lord.

Wonder if that's RDJ under an alias?

futureling · Post by **futureling** » Wed Jun 12, 2013 8:48 pm

Sometimes when I come to twoism I feel like I stepped inside a 12 Monkey's microcosm.

Ra was an Egyptian God.

Look up Ra Music (I believe) and you will find a theory of music propounded by Alan Howarth -- of John Carpenter fame.

http://alanhowarth.com/current-projects.html

If I remember correctly, he explains Ra Music on youtube somewhere.

Post by **Aesthetics** » Wed Jun 12, 2013 9:04 pm

futureling wrote:If I remember correctly, he explains Ra Music on youtube somewhere.

GeometricPish · Post by **GeometricPish** » Thu Jun 13, 2013 12:49 am

futureling wrote:Sometimes when I come to twoism I feel like I stepped inside a 12 Monkey's microcosm.

Ra was an Egyptian God.

Look up Ra Music (I believe) and you will find a theory of music propounded by Alan Howarth -- of John Carpenter fame.

http://alanhowarth.com/current-projects.html

If I remember correctly, he explains Ra Music on youtube somewhere.

You're looking way too deep in to this RA is just his initials (R.) Alan Lord.

I always thought I could hear teletype in the background in that last section as well although its frequency seems to be modulated so it's probably not decodable. I'm guessing the lads just recorded a few different shortwave transmissions, fucked about with them a bit and layered them up during the outro vignette piece.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioteletype

Torn n Frayed wrote:Not sure if anyone else had heard it before but in Satellite Anthem Icarus you can hear the title spoken in time with the music at the end of the tune.

I've never heard that before. At what time roughly does it appear on the recording?

Torn n Frayed · Post by **Torn n Frayed** » Thu Jun 13, 2013 12:57 am

GeometricPish wrote:
futureling wrote:Sometimes when I come to twoism I feel like I stepped inside a 12 Monkey's microcosm.

Ra was an Egyptian God.

Look up Ra Music (I believe) and you will find a theory of music propounded by Alan Howarth -- of John Carpenter fame.

http://alanhowarth.com/current-projects.html

If I remember correctly, he explains Ra Music on youtube somewhere.
You're looking way too deep in to this RA is just his initials (R.) Alan Lord.

I always thought I could hear teletype in the background in that last section as well although its frequency seems to be modulated so it's probably not decodable. I'm guessing the lads just recorded a few different shortwave transmissions, fucked about with them a bit and layered them up during the outro vignette piece.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioteletype

Torn n Frayed wrote:Not sure if anyone else had heard it before but in Satellite Anthem Icarus you can hear the title spoken in time with the music at the end of the tune.
I've never heard that before. At what time roughly does it appear on the recording?

From 4:14 on! Verrrrry faint tho!

GeometricPish · Post by **GeometricPish** » Thu Jun 13, 2013 1:03 am

Torn n Frayed wrote:
GeometricPish wrote:
Torn n Frayed wrote:Not sure if anyone else had heard it before but in Satellite Anthem Icarus you can hear the title spoken in time with the music at the end of the tune.
I've never heard that before. At what time roughly does it appear on the recording?
From 4:14 on! Verrrrry faint tho!

Man, I'm not sure if my mind is playing tricks on me. I think I can hear it but it might just be because I'm expecting to hear it. I'm pretty sure there's something there though.

Torn n Frayed · Post by **Torn n Frayed** » Thu Jun 13, 2013 1:09 am

GeometricPish wrote:
Torn n Frayed wrote:
GeometricPish wrote: I've never heard that before. At what time roughly does it appear on the recording?
From 4:14 on! Verrrrry faint tho!
Man, I'm not sure if my mind is playing tricks on me. I think I can hear it but it might just be because I'm expecting to hear it. I'm pretty sure there's something there though.

I don't think the Icarus is in there, just Satellite Anthem repeated.

akrotiri · Post by **akrotiri** » Sat Jun 15, 2013 1:07 am

GeometricPish wrote:
futureling wrote:Sometimes when I come to twoism I feel like I stepped inside a 12 Monkey's microcosm.

Ra was an Egyptian God.

Look up Ra Music (I believe) and you will find a theory of music propounded by Alan Howarth -- of John Carpenter fame.

http://alanhowarth.com/current-projects.html

If I remember correctly, he explains Ra Music on youtube somewhere.
You're looking way too deep in to this RA is just his initials (R.) Alan Lord.

I always thought I could hear teletype in the background in that last section as well although its frequency seems to be modulated so it's probably not decodable. I'm guessing the lads just recorded a few different shortwave transmissions, fucked about with them a bit and layered them up during the outro vignette piece.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioteletype

Torn n Frayed wrote:Not sure if anyone else had heard it before but in Satellite Anthem Icarus you can hear the title spoken in time with the music at the end of the tune.
I've never heard that before. At what time roughly does it appear on the recording?

Yeah. It's just a normal RATT (radio teletype) military transmission. Very very very common on shortwave; they're always encrypted.