Comments | dave_t_lurker: Fax

dave_t_lurker

Fax

Aug 19, 2008 19:34

Tuning around on the junk radio (built recently) I heard what sounded like a FAX transmission. It was, and here it is

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Comments 10

geekette8 August 19 2008, 19:05:59 UTC

That is actually seriously cool! Well done!

dave_t_lurker August 19 2008, 20:15:35 UTC

Cheers. It was a daft idea I had, I'm amazed it worked anywhere near this well.

novawildstar August 19 2008, 19:08:23 UTC

Dude you are such a geek but a kick ass cool one

dave_t_lurker August 19 2008, 20:15:55 UTC

Ta!

caitirin August 19 2008, 19:09:29 UTC

Wow! That's cool that you could decode it!

dave_t_lurker August 19 2008, 20:16:26 UTC

Thanks.

nextian_cutie August 19 2008, 19:25:44 UTC

"...for the GEEK shall inherit the Earth."

Uh, yeah! I would think so!

(seriously, this is WAY cool!)

dave_t_lurker August 19 2008, 20:16:42 UTC

Cheers!

katsmeat August 19 2008, 20:32:07 UTC

Amazingly cool... you must've caught yourself a weather transmission for shipping.

Reminds me of the story of Luna 9 and Jodrell Bank.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_9

dave_t_lurker August 20 2008, 08:04:53 UTC

I need to put the frequency counter on the radio so I know what frequency I was listening to. All I know for sure right now is that it was somewhere between 3.8 and 4Mhz.

The Luna9 story is interesting, thanks for the link.