[Spooks] XM "Whales"

[Chris Gross]

Zack Widup wrote:

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>I've been sitting here listening to the "Whales" station on 10512 kHz for a
>while. At 0505Z there was a sudden change in the loping, wandering tones.
>It suddenly went into a rapid pattern of uniform tone changes for a minute,
>then went back to the slowly wandering tone changes
>
I've noticed changes in it as well. There are times when there seems to 
be a voice under all that feedback; I wonder if a program like SoundHack 
could be used to remove enough of that 'whaling' to make the voices (if 
any) intelligible. I know it can be used to remove the carrier from a 
vocoded voice, leaving enough audio behind to give some idea of what the 
original voice sounds like...

>
>Has anyone tried recording this station and playing it back at different
>speeds, faster and slower?
>
I'm getting too much interference to make a good recording, although the 
signal has been coming in strong during the evenings.

>
>There certainly are some mysterious things to be heard on shortwave!
>
Yes-- verrrry in-ter-es-ting!


Chris Gross