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== External links ==
== External links ==
* [https://boingboing.net/2022/01/24/the-album-tubular-bells-with-the-exorcist-theme-accidentally-contains-morse-code-sent-to-uk-military-submarine.html The album Tubular Bells (with The Exorcist theme) accidentally contains morse code sent to UK military submarine] @ Boing Boing
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby_Radio_Station Rugby Radio Station] @ Wikipedia
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tubular_Bells Tubular Bells] @ Wikipedia
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* [https://twitter.com/GnomonChronicl1/status/1512835646695616513 Post] @ Twitter (9 April 2022)
* [https://twitter.com/GnomonChronicl1/status/1512835646695616513 Post] @ Twitter (9 April 2022)
* [https://twitter.com/GnomonChronicl1/status/1485810600274018308 Post] @ Twitter (24 January 2022)
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* [https://boingboing.net/2022/01/24/the-album-tubular-bells-with-the-exorcist-theme-accidentally-contains-morse-code-sent-to-uk-military-submarine.html The album Tubular Bells (with The Exorcist theme) accidentally contains morse code sent to UK military submarine] @ Boing Boing
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby_Radio_Station Rugby Radio Station] @ Wikipedia
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tubular_Bells Tubular Bells] @ Wikipedia


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[[Category:Fiction (nonfiction)]]

Latest revision as of 10:32, 19 August 2023

Earliest known poster for Tubular Elves.

Tubular Elves is a short documentary film about how the album Tubular Bells accidentally recorded machine elves during UK military submarine communication tests.

Nonfiction: The album Tubular Bells accidentally contains Morse code sent to UK military submarine

Mike Oldfield recorded the classic Tubular Bells in the early 1970s at Richard Branson's studio in Shipton-on-Cherwell, England. About an hour away from there was a huge wireless transmitter called Rugby Radio where, among other broadcasts, the UK government delivered very-low-frequency (VLF) transmissions to submarines. Turns out, a 16 kilohertz signal—Morse code of the station's call sign and the word "testing"—was inadvertently picked up by the recording gear at the music studio and made it onto Tubular Bells. As David Schneider explains, monitoring changes in VLF signals as they travel around the world can also be used to monitor space weather using just $70 of equipment and a laptop computer. From IEEE Spectrum:

I purchased an old CD of Tubular Bells, ripped a WAV file of one track, and piped it into a software-defined-radio package. Tuning to 16 kHz and setting the SDR software to demodulate continuous-wave signals immediately revealed Morse code. I couldn’t copy much of it, but I could make out many repetitions of VVV (“testing”) and GBR (the station’s call sign).

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