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Cold War Radio

October 27, 2009 @ 2:32 pm

When I was young I loved the radio. I used to spend night after night sitting in my room and listening to the obvious stations such as BBC Radio 1 and Radio Luxembourg. One night by chance I accidently switched my receiver to short wave, and as a consequence of this, put The Clash, Devo and The Jam on hold for a little while as I became engrossed in the many strange sounds I discovered.

I became obsessed with listening to the propaganda broadcasts from Radio Moscow, it opened my ears to what I imagined (probably correctly?) as a dark and sinister world. Who else was listening? I remember one instance during the miners strike in the early 80’s when Radio Moscow constantly reported the ‘fact’ that despite a shortage of coal miners in the USSR productivity was nevertheless booming. It was fascinating, it was such an obvious agenda, surely no one, even me a western imperialist (as we all were according to Moscow!), could ever fall for such blatant propaganda.  Despite the fact that through the eyes of the Kremlin I was just another capitalist landowner (another popular phrase they used) The Voice of America just made me laugh even more. Not nearly as scary but even more blindingly obvious with its propaganda, which of course was the polar opposite to what was being reported and broadcasted by Radio Moscow.

I also discovered stations playing just Morse Code signals and those strange gongs which apparently derived from Stasi run radio stations in East Germany. On several occasions I stumbled across numbers stations, coded messages sent in the sideband of normal short wave programmes. How I managed this I’m still not sure, maybe the weather had something to do with it, or maybe I just struck lucky. I remember sitting in my room listening to the robotic listing of apparently random numbers and wondering what it was all about, who these broadcasts were meant for and whether I was perhaps listening to a message of great political and military importance. But let’s face the fact that if some kid in the home counties was able to listen to these messages then obviously those who understood the significance of such broadcasts would also be listening too.

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Air Traffic Control RX:TX Chaos

October 23, 2009 @ 10:24 pm

Air Traffic Control communications recorded between 8.20pm and 9pm (GMT) on Friday 23rd October 2009.

 

This madness is an excerpt of a small part of a project I’m working on at the moment.

 

Air Traffic Control at –

 

EHAM Amsterdam - The Netherlands

EPWA Warsaw - Poland

LGAV Athens - Greece

LKPR Prague - Czech Republic

KBOS Boston (Tower) - USA

KHOU Houston - USA

JFK New York (Delivery) - USA

KJFK New York (Departure) - USA

VHHH Hong Kong Intl. - Hong Kong, China

SABE Buenos Aires - Argentina

SBBR Brasília - Brazil

TTPP Trinidad and Tobago - Trinidad

YSSY Sydney - Australia

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Perfect Rainbow

October 22, 2009 @ 7:20 pm

I've just witnessed the most pefect rainbow ever...and I didn't have my camera...but nevertheless I'm happy to have seen it.

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Probably the most annoying Buskers in the world…ever

October 12, 2009 @ 7:22 pm

Probably the most annoying Buskers in the world...ever...they'd been repeating this phrase, from an Abba favourite, for at least 15 minutes before I went and recorded them from the street...now just imagine trying to work with this constantly in the background…

 

Never mind, another beautiful sunset to enjoy when I got home…

 

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