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Xander Fwoof

@dodecahedron@fwoof.space

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musical, autistic, blind, plural, nonbinary, and so much more. Feel free to interact

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Xander Fwoof 12h ago

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Xander Fwoof 1d ago

Happy fourth! Instead of celebrating America, let's celebrate music and having fun! I haven't made a mix in a while, so I present to you the listener, a July 4th hour long mix, because why the hell not! Enjoy! http://win.masonasons.me/mixes/mix38_07-04-2025.flac

Xander Fwoof 1d ago

Patrick Perdue 1d ago

This is as close as I'll come to celebrating the Fourth of July. I will take no questions.

Xander Fwoof 2d ago

Noof E. Noof 2d ago

It's July 4 again.

America, in it's current state, is not worth celebrating.

You know what is, though?

My little silky blanket.

Last year at this time, I thought it would soon die. Since then, it has been given another lease on life. Reinforcement has been added around the edges. Holes have been patched. 37 years later, it's still in my life. Sometimes, I feel like it's the only stable thing about my existence.

I could draw parallels to the state of the world, but at the end of the day, I don't really care about all that. I've still got my little silky blanket, with it's comforting presence, and that's what matters to me at this moment.

Xander Fwoof 2d ago

OH boy! I have accidentally gotten too much world all over my other account. lol. Those who get it, will get it, if you don't, please worry not, I"m not intentionally leaving anyone out, just making a statement.

Xander Fwoof 2d ago

hey jacket.fm went away. who saw that one coming :P Hileo.

Xander Fwoof 3d ago

Green Roc Thoughts 3d ago

I'm autistic.
I need to live a life that is different than most people.
I'm not deficit unless you compare me to the entirety of the population.

I'm able to live, enjoy things, choose my own path (as much as society would let me).

I'm not deficit, I'm different.
I got skills most people dont have, so it's not like I'm some defective human.

I might 'appear' defective but that's not true. I am an autistic who is interrupted by society, I need my own way.

I'm different, not defective.

Xander Fwoof 5d ago

Callisto 5d ago

Satisfying my unscientific curiosity here. Please boost for visibility.

How old are you?

	25 or younger
	26-40
	41-65
	66 or older

Poll ends at Jul 7 at 12:06pm.

Xander Fwoof 5d ago

Patrick Perdue 6d ago

#AudioMo day 30:

Well, I guess that's it for AudioMo for another year. June was not a great month for me, personally. Seems appropriate to flush it...

I live in a house with flushometer toilets, meaning they don't have tanks. They're more like public toilets than what you would normally see in a residential building.
I've only ever seen them in houses in this neighborhood in Queens. My previous house in the same neighborhood also had these types of toilets installed.

Anyway, with a flushometer type toilet, you can push the handle every few seconds to make the water run around the bowl continuously, so I did that, and made a toilet flush last for about 48 seconds, wasting lots of water in the process. Seems fitting somehow.

Xander Fwoof Jun 28

Ricki Bowie Knives Tarr Jun 28

Every time I meet an Anarchist, they really just want small local government.

Every time I meet a Satanist, they are really actually agnostic or atheists, with a wicked sense of humor.

Every time I meet a Nihilist, I'm really worried about their long term depression.

Every time I meet a MAGA, they're a Nazi.

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Patrick Perdue Jun 23

#AudioMo day23:

Did you know that there is hidden morse code all throughout Mike Oldfield's 'Tubular Bells' album?

Somehow, probably during the two-track mix-down stage of the album, the CW from a powerful, very low frequency transmitter about 37 miles north of the studio in which this album was recorded found it's way to tape. It's centered at 16 kHz, and so low in the mix that you can't actually hear it... at least, not without some help.

This is a very short, not particularly comprehensive demo using two different methods -- a pair of stock Reaper plugins and an SDR package to mostly isolate this morse transmission, which is heard throughout the entire album.

References:
Hidden Morse Code in Tubular Bells https://madpsy.uk/link-between-the-soundtrack-of-the-exorcist-and-amateur-radio/

The Hidden Signal Inside A Platinum Selling Album - Tubular Bells https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3UJAfuvniI

Andre Louis Jun 23

@BorrisInABox If you crank, and I do mean absolutely crank! up the sound on some samples in Air music's Structure and in particular on their Finger Bass track, you can hear what sounds like a French AM station. I haven't done any kind of shifting like you did because I only just learnt about it from this post. All I did was use XferRecords OTT compressor which is free.

Patrick Perdue Jun 23

@FreakyFwoof Oh yes, you showed me some of those samples a long time ago. If it's AM, the same method wouldn't probably do much, because it's a much wider bandwidth.

Andre Louis Jun 23

@BorrisInABox I just wonder how many songs have such amazing hidden content in them now?
Also like, VHS recordings run through SDRSharp, could they all be snapshots or at least partial snapshots of shows long gone and things hidden in the spectrum nobody bothers looking for? What a fantastic rabbit hole.

Patrick Perdue Jun 23

@FreakyFwoof Back in the 80s, maybe late 70s, someone figured out how to record radio spectrum with a VCR by tapping part of the radio before any tuning or filtering, then reverseing the process so you could essentially tune through that snapshot using a modified radio. Now, you can play those old recordings back with SDR software and do the same. There aren't many of those old recordings online, but there are a few, and it's absolutely a trip.
Someone took that a step further, and transmitted that file using a HackRF, so you can actually use a normal analog radio doing nothing special at all to do the tuning.

Andre Louis Jun 23

@BorrisInABox I definitely want to try that with a regular radio, because yeah. Software is a pain sometimes.

Patrick Perdue Jun 23

@FreakyFwoof You'd have to get a HackRF or something to make that work. BTW, HDSDR is about the most usable thing I've found on Windows so far. Loads of hotkeys. Does the traditional analog stuff. If you want to decode digital, you can just send raw IQ to an audio device, then use specialized software to decode it. Not as nice as SDRSharp with it's many plugins, but also a lot easier to use.

Andre Louis Jun 23

@BorrisInABox I have HDSDR here. Tons of keys, but I never got any sound out of it despite trying for literally hours. It's connected to my roof antenna. I should try again sometime.

Patrick Perdue Jun 23

@FreakyFwoof Oh, I bet you don't have the DLL that connects it to the RTL driver.

Andre Louis Jun 23

@BorrisInABox OO that's a possibility.

Patrick Perdue Jun 23

@FreakyFwoof BTW, RTL's get overloaded very easily on FM if you use an antenna with any kind of gain on them. Having an 8-bit DAC doesn't really do it any favors. It's generally fine for what it's designed for, because usually, you're pulling in signals from small antennas and junk.
I connected my RTL to a Comet CX-333 vertical antenna made for VHF/UHF up on a 33 foot poll, and it got swamped by all kinds of junk, which is why I bought an Airspy R2. IT does a much better job at descrimination, but not everything supports it. I still have to use my RTL dongle if I want to decode HD radio or telemetry from the 433 mHz band, because those applications are made specifically to interface with RTL dongles. But for general purpose capture, the Airspy is way better.

Andre Louis Jun 23

@BorrisInABox I'd buy something different if I knew I'd get it to work, yeah. It seems fine with the TV antenna when using it to decode freeview, but maybe because that's a digital signal.

Patrick Perdue Jun 23

@FreakyFwoof Well, it's designed specifically to do that. Not of any use here. Our TV channels are 6 mHz wide.

I see Dud people!Jun 23

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The Hidden Signal Inside A Platinum Selling Album - Tubular Bells

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JamminJerry Jun 23

@BorrisInABox I think your way exposed it a bit better, meaning I could hear it better, and not the second way you showed it, running it threw a decoder. maybe that is just my ears though. that was really awesome to find out, and I never knew this until just now. thanks for that.

Patrick Perdue Jun 23

@JamminJerry The filter from SDRSharp is actually closer to what it would have sounded like if you tuned into the frequency directly back in 1973.

JamminJerry Jun 23

@BorrisInABox for me, I couldn't even here the cw in that though. the way you did it, I was able to hear it, and tell it was actually there.

Patrick Perdue Jun 23

@JamminJerry Other way around for me, almost.

Tarren (They/Them)Jun 23

@BorrisInABox I wish I was faster at morse code...

@BorrisInABox Hehehe, that's pretty cool.

Tim Chase Jun 24

That was a fascinating piece of trivia. Thanks for sharing!