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[iamthatdizzy]

ok, i have one quick question, WorldOyster, why was she IGC again? Im lost on that. I guess thats what I get for now coming to the boards for about a month

[green ice queen]

ah because vpisteve found out that the ip is dodgy - not from where julie said she was from, also it is registered as 2 users, one of which posted as in game and left us a (not so) criptic clue. i think his post is near the bottom on page 1 of this thread.

[Kotori_shyla]

Just for clarification, do we have any players living in the state of Philidelphia? I can remember if we do or not. If we don't have anyone near the area, the radio idea could be rather difficult.
With the ham radio, if we have people in PA, we can get a ham radio off of ebay or something and surf channels to find her. Are there any clues as to what frequency she might be on?
Just thinking out loud here.

[Saturn Girl]

You can't just buy a ham radio, you have to have an amateur radio license from the FCC to be able to operate one. Because you have to have valid ID to get an FCC license, I don't think we'll find one registered to Gertrude Long(fellow) - but it is possible for a club with at least 4 members to have an umbrella type license, where anyone from that shack could operate under the club's license.

I think we all need to go back to Martha's April 11 email and start scanning it for clues again. It may contain the address to Gertrude's ham shack within.

ETA: And as I mentioned before, it is not necessary to have a radio operator in PA. Amateur radio has been used for global communication for decades - there are many ways to extend the range of the signal.

ETA again: I don't think is Gertrude's shack, it belongs to some guy in Indiana, but pay attention to how the guy is relaying his radio call sign - its Morse code, guys. The same way we got the elements of the trinity.

Click for ham operator's site

[Tonamel]

Yeah, but part of the ham operator's test is a morse code proficiency exam. EVERYONE with a license knows morse code, so hearing it there isn't unusual.

[Saturn Girl]

I'm not saying it is unusual that there is morse code on the Indiana guy's site...what I'm saying is there have been many instances of morse code throughout the game so any method of communication that incorporates morse code (ie amateur radio) is something we should pay attention to.

I don't think that Indiana guy has anything to do with Unholy...but we may find a Pennsylvania based ham radio club that is ingame. The trick is finding the right call sign, and the call sign may be hidden somewhere in Martha's April 11 email message.

Remember the original Unholy site source code? It said "CAALLL MMMEE" - not email me. I think the written messages at the site, not the recorded messages, are really from Gertrude.

ETA: I have a hunch. A few months ago when I first started digging into the ham radio theory, I found a ham radio club license that was granted on March 15, 2005 - March is when the Unholy game really started getting rolling. The club license is for the Devon Amateur Radio Club - Devon is only 17 miles away from Downingtown. What's the harm in trying to contact these guys and asking them if Gertrude is a member of the club?

[dustyrosekisses]

hey kids, I've just gone through all of "WorldOyster's" posts since "she" joined, these are the few that I've picked out, that might be able to help us, since we all believe that "she" was InGame.

[Saturn Girl]

You're right, the ham thing isn't very practical and loses sight of the PMs overall objective, the promotion of the film. Good for you for combing through her posts for kernals of insight!

[dustyrosekisses]

Thanks, yeah I was wondering this morning, WHY would they have an InGame player if they didn't want us to move forward on our search, especially when they went to all the trouble of setting up a falsehood of who we were talking to, so I started searching through "her" posts, they mostly say the same thing, "keep going" and "more work" and "she" really pushes the idea of Television coverage of Unholy.

[green ice queen]

hahaha wouldnt it be funny if, after everything thats been posted recently, julie really was one of us after all, and it was just a mix up??

[debbe]

Is it just me, or does anyone else find it annoying that there haven't actually been puzzles for us to solve, or any research, or anything at all.

All we've been doing for the past couple of months is waiting for emails from people (half of whom, weren't even really IG)

When are we going to be given something real, and tangible to be solved?!

I mean, little backwards messages are nice, but there haven't been any puzzles..

I think that's the reason why I find myself not really paying attention to the forums, and then drifting back every couple of weeks incase there's been a real puzzle posted

Or is this just all me?

[Pixiestix]

[miss_seph]

I grew up with ham radio, and even have a limited license (so vhf and uhf frequencies and low wavelength comms only), but my father is a ham radio veteran of approx 50 years, so I know a bit about it - and I can say here and now that I've not once ever heard anyone broadcast morse code across the airwaves. Yes, I do understand that you need an understanding of morse code to operate a radio that broadcasts over a certain wavelength, but I'm wondering if perhaps the morse used in this game is more trying to tie in the World War II theme, as opposed to generating new 'KLOOs'?

and the Movie's not due out for some time - perhaps this is just the pregame?

I dunno, I'm itching for the movie to come out, though - it sounds positively excellent

[Chumlee]

3 Strikes! Am I out?

[Saturn Girl]

Bored? Clickety click

P.S. Martha is back. Have any of you heard from her yet?