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Xkeeper · Veteran Joined: 12 Dec 2012 Posts: 87

I haven't managed to find anything suggesting that the 1khz-wide noise is a meaningful signal. I asked #priyom about it and the general consensus is that it sounds a lot like OTHR, not very useful.

It looks a little more interesting if you take that clip and slow it down about 80% in Audacity (you can see the individual sweeps), but still nothing really exciting.

Given that similar sweeps appear earlier in the music, it might just be noise. Doesn't look very interesting.

**Posted:** Wed Apr 23, 2014 10:05 am

arthurdent11389 · Decorated Joined: 01 Oct 2010 Posts: 184

**Posted:** Wed Apr 23, 2014 10:58 am

morningcoffee · Decorated Joined: 24 Nov 2008 Posts: 277 Location: England

No major progress. Drop info is still not available on the agent system, QX not answered, unable to find anything new/relevant on any other of the phone numbers.

Current project is trying to find someone to visit the coords from ExcitingBooks' deleted cover as this is the only thing we have.
Unfortunately this is proving tricky as it's pretty remote and far away from any major city. We tried posting on reddit without luck. I'm currently attempting to contact local geocachers, but am not getting many replies Sad

**Posted:** Sat May 03, 2014 4:06 am

morningcoffee · Decorated Joined: 24 Nov 2008 Posts: 277 Location: England

Big news!

We eavesdropped on a conference call taking place on AS36 early this morning.

Audio: http://tinyurl.com/WORMference

A full text summary of the entire conference call can be found here: http://pastebin.com/49XnXSWU

Important points:

- Robert Bramble AKA Robby is now back and apparently working for WORM again! He says that they realised he wasn't the person who'd been leaking information and he was able to return to work. He said he's "back in Denver".
- WORM are still waiting on the new bootloader from Emtanon, and J is unhappy with the delay. They are unable to reset Controller to restart AS36 manually as it has to be done in person due to security, and it's a remote unmanned site that is not easily accessible.
- They are currently using AS27 which is crappy, can only do "announcements" and isn't interactive. They are also worried that it's going to break soon due to some major technical problems. The field agents are complaining about having to use it.
- We got the phone number for AS27 for the first time and have been able to dial it. There is currently a "black OTP" style message on it, asking "drop agent 7" to contact "collector". We will monitor AS27 for changes or new messages.
- Emtanon are going to provide "the source code and a hex dump" in a drop ASAP in Region 10 (which comprises Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Alaska). They are also going to drop a book of the MXP20 manual and documentation separately.

drawbars · Veteran Joined: 11 Jul 2013 Posts: 96

Thanks for updating us coffee!! Sorry that I haven't been around lately.

**Posted:** Wed May 07, 2014 10:23 pm

morningcoffee · Decorated Joined: 24 Nov 2008 Posts: 277 Location: England

We eavesdropped on the second phone conference today.

Audio: http://tinyurl.com/WORMference2

Full text summary here: http://pastebin.com/upbfTZxL

Important points:

- while Robert & Nick wait for Emtanon to join the call, there's interesting sounds in the background - tones, beeps, clicks and a computerised voice. We can definitely hear the voice say "at the tone, five hours and fifty one minutes" (and a minute later "five hours and fifty-two minutes") and then something else before a loud beep, so it's probable that it's just a speaking clock of some kind (as this part of the call was recorded at 0551 UTC).
- Emtanon's Steven was not present on the call because he had a "special assignment". Robert is annoyed by this. Steven is the only person working on the code currently because there is a "specialised driver" that his department deals with.
- As a result, Emtanon still aren't done with the bootloader code. They say they'll definitely be finished by Weds 14th. Robert is annoyed by this too because he wants it by the end of Sunday Smile

- Robert schedules a follow-up call for Monday (Tuesday morning UTC) in case Emtanon don't have the code ready by the end of the weekend.
- There's a long stream of clear ABISM tones at the end of the call from Robert. We're going to decode these.

**Posted:** Fri May 09, 2014 7:59 am

morningcoffee · Decorated Joined: 24 Nov 2008 Posts: 277 Location: England

Messages from AS27 so far:

May 7th -

**Posted:** Sat May 10, 2014 12:25 pm

Xkeeper · Veteran Joined: 12 Dec 2012 Posts: 87

**Posted:** Sat May 10, 2014 1:29 pm

Xkeeper · Veteran Joined: 12 Dec 2012 Posts: 87

I rewrote my decoder to better handle the noisy and less clean recording and ... well

**Posted:** Sat May 10, 2014 2:45 pm

L0j1k · Boot Joined: 10 May 2013 Posts: 36

Just a heads up:

**Posted:** Sat May 10, 2014 10:59 pm

Xkeeper · Veteran Joined: 12 Dec 2012 Posts: 87

There's ABISM in the first conference call, too, but it's even worse noise-wise and it looks like everything in it is a lot clearer in the second one. Anyway:

**Posted:** Sun May 11, 2014 1:06 am

morningcoffee · Decorated Joined: 24 Nov 2008 Posts: 277 Location: England

!!!!! NEW DROP !!!!!

Drop info obtained from PSK in a new "Abism song" on AS36.

Audio: http://dialer.otp22.com/2014-05.dir/2014-05-11%2008-49%20UTC%20-%20303-309-0004%20-%20.wav

**Posted:** Sun May 11, 2014 5:33 am

morningcoffee · Decorated Joined: 24 Nov 2008 Posts: 277 Location: England

Wow! A very kind and very speedy reddit user has acquired our drop for us in what must be record time for an OTP22 drop collection!

Album of pics:
https://imgur.com/a/jBqIL

So we looked at the bootloader code, converted the hex to decimal and I entered it into Controller. This gave me "RESET SUCCESS" and victory tones.
After that I dialed AS36. You get a message saying:

**Posted:** Sun May 11, 2014 10:50 am

drawbars · Veteran Joined: 11 Jul 2013 Posts: 96

Wow, very cool. Thanks for keeping us updated. Wonder what happens next...

**Posted:** Sun May 11, 2014 4:57 pm

Xkeeper · Veteran Joined: 12 Dec 2012 Posts: 87

I ran that call through Things.

BPSK31:

**Posted:** Sun May 11, 2014 9:39 pm