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Post by theshee on Mar 5, 2011 9:13:04 GMT 10
“Yosemite Sam” is the nickname that has been given to a mysterious shortwave radio transmission that was first reported on December 19, 2004 and may be an American counterpart to Russia’s enigmatic UVB-76 signal. It originates from the Laguna Indian Reservation in a remote area of west-central New Mexico and repeats at the top of each hour. Each transmission consists of a digital data burst followed by a short audio clip from the 1949 cartoon Bunker Hill Bunny in which character Yosemite Sam exclaims “Varmint, I’m a-gonna blow yah to smithereens!” In the original cartoon Bugs Bunny uses a combination of guile and secret weaponry to defeat Yosemite Sam’s heavily fortified redoubt.
Here's a sample transmissionhw.libsyn.com/p/2/1/7/217dc5e40746e043/ns_yosemite.mp3?sid=331bdb8df2a020344635d1428e65e241&l_sid=17974&l_eid=&l_mid=1406463
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Post by Wes Gear on Mar 5, 2011 21:25:26 GMT 10
Yeah this is a strange one Shee. Only thing I can think is that it is used as some sort of syncing clock. I dropped this into Audacity (sound editing software) and had a look at it. Looking at the sound file you can see that the transmission is made of two parts, the first is a tone and second the cartoon voices. These have been pasted together to create one sound file, you can see the edit. The tone is a Digital Generated Sound. A Digital Sound like this can be used to sync computers together.
What is interesting about this is that anyone 'accidentally' receiving this message will be more interested in the voices to take much notice of the DGS tone.
If it was being used to sync computers it would be easier to use the internet, Unless the computers where say in Satellites. Just guessing now but a pulse on every hour would be useful for not only syncing computers on Satellites but also for other orbiting craft such as the ISS.
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Post by brillbilly on Mar 11, 2011 2:27:52 GMT 10
bloody weird
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