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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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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!

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.

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

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

Wonder if that's RDJ under an alias?

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.

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

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?

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!

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.

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.

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.