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Morse Code in Tubular Bells (2021)
he link between The Exorcist, Amateur Radio and Alan Turing. A quick look at how the movie The Exorcist from 1973 has links to the late great Alan Turing via Mike Oldfield’s album Tubular Bells, Scotland and Amateur Radio.
It was in this very studio, completely unknown to the engineers at the time, they would inadvertently capture a radio signal from a nearby transmitter and store it forever on the Tubular Bells album. Around 37 miles north of the studio near Rugby, in a small suburb called Hillmorton, a very large radio transmitter had been built after the end of World War One to link Great Britain with other parts of the British Empire. This was part of an effort to both intercept and direction find enemy radio transmissions during World War One and Two, including encrypted Enigma messages, which as we all know was ultimately cracked by Alan Turing.
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