SyneRyder wrote:Looks like the Ringway Manchester video has landed, you can find it here:
Firstly, some of the numbers in the "instructions" are off. Playing the track at 162.225kHz (note, kHz not Mhz) results in a track that is 23.5 seconds long, not 2.3 seconds long. An easy way to play the track at that 23-second speed is in Amadeus Pro on the Mac, choose the Sound -> Characteristics menu, set the Sampling Rate to 162225 Hz and enable the Don't Resample checkbox.
Playing it back 10x faster than that (which would be 1622.25kHz, or 1.62225Mhz), you get the sound in the video above, which supposedly sounds like "Geogaddi Come In Over". But you can't play at that speed directly (most audio interfaces are limited to 192kHz playback). I got to the 10x faster speed by taking the recording set to 162.225kHz, resampling it down to 16.222kHz, then playing it back again at 162.225kHz.
I didn't bother with splitting the track in two, reversing it, pitching segments down etc etc. I don't see any reason why any of that would be necessary. And I'm not even convinced there's a voice anyway. If there is, it sounds like heavy ring modulation has been applied.
However. Doing this, I could sort of hear the phrase "Geogaddi Calling, Come In, Over"... which is annoying, because the video didn't mention the word "calling". And "calling" was the clearest of all the words to me. And the waveform does seem to look a bit like a spoken voice - even more so if you invert one of the channels and collapse to mono, which seems to get rid of some of the tinkling high notes.
Honestly, I think this is a wild goose chase. But I like the idea that the volume envelope of the whole song may have been shaped by a slowed down spoken phrase. That's not a trick I think I've heard of being done before.
Anyway, there's a good chance people here will also like Ringway Manchester's other videos on radio oddities & number stations, so it's worth checking out.
Ok, so... I've been trying to formulate a reply to this thread and it's difficult. Here's an attempt.
First of all, I want to give major credit to luminousdusk for his dogged determination to solve some intertwined Geogaddi mysteries that have been speculated on, but not seriously investigated until now, thanks to him.
I have to admit, I was pretty skeptical that there was a voice message buried deep in "Diving Station", but since I never bothered to follow the instructions he found to reveal said message, I never said anything. In fact, I was more interested in what the 162.225MHz note on side 6 was all about.
That said, at this time, I feel that luminousdusk was really on it as far as the voice message goes. Once you hear it, I think it's very hard to dismiss it as just random noise that an overly active imagination can interpret as an intentional message that isn't really there. It may not be "Geoggadi, come in, over", but "Geogaddi" and some other words likely are there.
As far as 162.225MHz, right now I'm inclined to believe that it is indeed tied to "Magic Window" and is a shout out to Thomas Bearden's theories of certain frequencies opening up alternate dimensions. Both the track title and frequency range do seem to correlate nicely.
Lastly, Lewis' (Ringway Manchester) video was a wonderful surprise. After suggesting to luminousdusk that he contact him and see if he was interested in investigating further, I held out some hope of a response, but not too much. And after weeks and weeks of no word, I assumed that was that. The fact that luminousdusk kept on it, gave Lewis all the information he had and convinced him that it was something worth looking into is fantastic. The YT video provides a good summary of some of the mysteries BoC fans have been pondering over for years. So, again, thank you, luminousdusk.
I welcome people to continue this discussion, be it critical, affirmative, or otherwise.
Anyone else picked up on that as well?