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Euchre
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 		Aww, the bastages caught on to the hotlink. I'll have to fix that somehow.
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multipsychoapopheniosis
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multipsychoapopheniosis wrote:
Okay for want of something better to do/concentrate on (short of story invention), there's still mileage in the Morse theory. The audio posted was the overlapping sequence @ satellite launch on RP.com, however as Euchre pointed out, the entire audio contains several distinctive motifs before it loops back.


So to answer my own query (using audacity to capture and analysis with sonic visualiser), there are two discrete morse messages embedded (attached) and repeated in a loop with random radio bursts thrown in. This message is identical in both channels and is:


      High Freq= WB6GPO
      Low Freq = W6VNR


Having a look at the opening melee with noise reduction doesn't help a great deal, still a mass of >10 intermingled signals.

What does that leave us with. Well google gives us the previously mentioned call sign for Joe Hypnarowski on the Cayman Islands, and also a couple of craigs list items (http://pittsburgh.craigslist.org/grd/1885041874.html and http://daytona.craigslist.org/cto/1889987973.html) all of which seems very OOG. WB6GP0 is also a ham call sign.

Any ideas Rolling Eyes

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 		multipsychoapopheniosis,

Nice work. I also was digging around and what-not and found these sites which might prove useful. I haven't had a chance to check them out against what you have discovered, but ham call signs might be something?

Astronaut (and Former Astronaut) Hams
http://users.tellurian.com/gjurrens/astrohams.html


Radio signals from various satellites recorded near Stockholm, Sweden
Including voice from Yuri Gagarin in Vostok-1
Cosmos
Soyuz

http://www.svengrahn.pp.se/sounds/sounds.htm

And this seemed pretty cool -

Quote:
The first recording of Sputnik 1's signal was made by RCA engineers near Riverhead, Long Island. They then drove the tape recording into Manhattan for broadcast to the public over NBC radio. However, as Sputnik rose higher over the East Coast, its signal was picked up by ham station W2AEE, the ham radio station of Columbia University. Students working in the
university's FM station, WKCR, made a tape of this, and were the first to rebroadcast the Sputnik 1 signal to the American public (or such of it as could receive the FM station). The next morning two FBI agents took the tape from the station. It has never been returned


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_1 (the bold was mine)

And from another source:

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/alumni/Magazine/Fall2009/letters.html

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In 1957 I was involved, not with the ham station but with WKCR. When Sputnik 1 was launched, we lugged a 30-pound Ampex tape recorder over to W2AEE and recorded Sputnik's beep. As a result, WKCR became the first radio station in North America to rebroadcast the sound of the Soviet Satellite.

The next morning the FBI came and seized the tape.


Again bold was mine.

Just thought I'd throw all this out there. Was doing this while multipsychoapopheniosis, was reviewing the tape.

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 		Hmm interesting. I'll roll with the idea of the Ham satellite network. The common link in the call signs is California. Links back to Coop? Well I'm glad you asked because it does indeed. In 1957 at Edwards AFB, California Cooper spotted a UFO http://www.ufoevidence.org/cases/case357.htm

Coincidence..... Most probably but hey ho Rolling Eyes
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 		Have we actually established that our Capt "Coop" Cooper is the same guy as Capt Gordon "Gordo" Cooper the astronaut?

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Melodyman wrote:
Have we actually established that our Capt "Coop" Cooper is the same guy as Capt Gordon "Gordo" Cooper the astronaut?


Well, "Coop" has never been referred to as Gordon if that's what you mean. Evidence for comes from the fact that he was the only Captain Cooper in the era of the RP advert (original) who also happened to be a famous astronaut and the cartoon looks kinda like him http://super8.wikibruce.com/Gordon_Cooper

Extra suggestions are that the insignia badges are known as Coops patches, Coop designed one himself with "8 days or bust" on it, he flew on the Gemini missions (aka. the space twins; ref. Twin Teamwork RP freeze flavour == Cooper and Pete Conrad).

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 		Multi;

In an earlier post you stated, "WB6GP0 is also a ham call sign."

In a later post you said, "Hmm interesting. I'll roll with the idea of the Ham satellite network. The common link in the call signs is California."

I've looked, but can't see where you have got from a Ham call sign to California?

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Xeno Lambrose wrote:
Multi;

In an earlier post you stated, "WB6GP0 is also a ham call sign."

In a later post you said, "Hmm interesting. I'll roll with the idea of the Ham satellite network. The common link in the call signs is California."

I've looked, but can't see where you have got from a Ham call sign to California?


Oops, typo. --- is obviously O not 0. The call sign is WB6GPO, though the owners of these seem very OOG.

Original post edited to correct error.

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 		Both of those callsigns come from Southern California, and were very likely just recorded from the locally used frequencies and used to sound genuine for the site. My bet is they have NOTHING to do with this, so please don't go bugging some poor HAMs just because whoever made this was too lazy to generate some truly useful or truly random Morse.
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multipsychoapopheniosis wrote:
Melodyman wrote:
Have we actually established that our Capt "Coop" Cooper is the same guy as Capt Gordon "Gordo" Cooper the astronaut?


Well, "Coop" has never been referred to as Gordon if that's what you mean. Evidence for comes from the fact that he was the only Captain Cooper in the era of the RP advert (original) who also happened to be a famous astronaut and the cartoon looks kinda like him http://super8.wikibruce.com/Gordon_Cooper

Extra suggestions are that the insignia badges are known as Coops patches, Coop designed one himself with "8 days or bust" on it, he flew on the Gemini missions (aka. the space twins; ref. Twin Teamwork RP freeze flavour == Cooper and Pete Conrad).


Agreed in that I don't see how the ARG could use Gordon Cooper's name and/or likeness without his permission to participate, which doesn't seem evident so far — since all we see of "Coop" is artwork bearing no resemblance to the actual astronaut.

"Coop" can easily be a ficticious astronaut though without infringement, especially since Gordon Cooper's nickname was "Gordo" and not "Coop."

Aside: I wouldn't be surprised if "Coop" was a fictional parallel to the original Mercury astronauts, at least loosely. Obviously there are a number of utterly fictitious elements in the RP concept already, but what if there's another layer here?

What if Rocket Poppeteers (the fictional product) hired a (fictional) astronaut named "Coop" to endorse their Space Age popsicles, since such American heroes were all the rage in the early 1960s...

And what if in that space program, Coop happened to have some unexpected encounter with an unknown while in space...

And spends his post-astronaut life working to discover the truth behind that unknown and other space-related unknowns, both publicly and secretly...

And what if years later some 'kid' found evidence which might expose a government cover-up about previous contact, and contacted retired Coop for help, even if he didn't know it was Coop on the other end?

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 		Yuri Gagarin
Look familiar?
I'm just saying ....
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 		Who thinks Josh's Dad is Coop?
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 		Capt Coop Minker?

Who thinks its time for a new clue?

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 		Minker would be his Mum's name.

Josh is love child of Evelyn and Coop.

LOL
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slinkydge wrote:
Minker would be his Mum's name.

Josh is love child of Evelyn and Coop.

LOL


lol now we are REALLY speculating. I like it!
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