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General Category => Huh? => Topic started by: atrainradio on July 25, 2015, 2255 UTC
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What if it is actually a secret, covert government station and those shows we hear actually covering up some sort of unknown digital data mode used to send messages to spies...
Fansome's probably behind it too.
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Anything's possible. I had a theory that Samuel Beckett's incomprehensible plays were actually coded messages. He downplayed his role in the WWII French Resistance but I suspect he learned his trade craft there and secreted messages in his postwar scripts. :o
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FANCO has nothing to do with OTR or Samuel Beckett and his weird plays. However we have purchased the Arecibo Radio Telescope Facility in Puerto Rico to complement our HAARP installation in Alaska.
You'll soon be hearing your Fearless Leader, Al Fansome, in your head both on and off the planet. Listen and obey.
Oh yeah, no skateboards on the antenna in Arecibo.
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No skateboards and the ever present voice of Al? Dear god help us.
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I worship the ground Al walks on, though I have no idea where nor have ever seen this sacred ground :o
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I worship the ground Al walks on, though I have no idea where nor have ever seen this sacred ground :o
I think you can buy bags of dirt Al has walked on, on eBay.
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Chris I tried that, but when I opened the bag, I got a face full of dust that blew away in the wind. I was cheated!!
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No skateboards and the ever present voice of Al? Dear god help us.
Just on the antenna. The Chupacabra's can't sleep with all that racket going on above them.
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Yes, and to start out, you will be hearing me singing selected hits by the Go-Gos and Belinda Carlisle. Be very afraid.
No skateboards and the ever present voice of Al? Dear god help us.
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Do "Head Over Heels", Al!
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It's some guy who has no clue how far it's going.
He likes to listen to those old shows while he works on various projects, and he think's he's just broadcasting to the old shortwave console he keeps in his garage...
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That guy must spend a lot of time in the garage! Given the amount of hours OTR is on, I'd say that transmitter must be hot enough to fry up a couple veggie burgers by now...
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I see whatcha did there skipmuck..
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I see whatcha did there skipmuck..
Same here. I'm keeping my eyes on you, Skip.
(http://i1049.photobucket.com/albums/s387/jFarley44/Eyes_zpsdoyvulkd.png) (http://s1049.photobucket.com/user/jFarley44/media/Eyes_zpsdoyvulkd.png.html)
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That guy must spend a lot of time in the garage! Given the amount of hours OTR is on, I'd say that transmitter must be hot enough to fry up a couple veggie burgers by now...
He probably forgot to turn it off.
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That guy must spend a lot of time in the garage! Given the amount of hours OTR is on, I'd say that transmitter must be hot enough to fry up a couple veggie burgers by now...
He probably forgot to turn it off.
Or he unexpectedly passed away.... :o If so, you can forget about those QSLs...
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All joking aside, I've had some really excellent reception of OTR over the past year or so, particularly in the hours before and up to local sunset, and the programs are a bit of a time warp! I've zoned out on several occasions while imagining myself sitting in front of an old stand up radio and catching "the latest" episodes of my favorite programs. The cigarette and toothpaste ads are a real hoot too! I for one treasure this mysterious denizen of the shortwaves and hope it continues to be the RF equivalent of a lighthouse beacon. In fact, I use OTR as an indicator of propagation conditions on 43-44 meters....I really don't care about the who, what, why, or where of OTR. It is there most of the time and that works for me! I just hope that in this era of continuing decline of shortwave broadcasting, that we are able to hear this in the future. I hope it becomes a franchise! 8)
I think that old guy in the garage is too busy nodding off between projects to bother with QSL's....probably has a half pint of something in the toolbox to ease the creaky old bones ;D