why have i not seen this before! xD
why have i not seen this before! xD
Well an easy way to tell where this call was going would be to listen to the touch tones and see what numbers those tones correspond with, reconstructing the phone number.
How to do that? You could either do it by ear, if you trust your sense of hearing, or you can analyze the frequency spectrum of the tones and see which numbers they correspond to.
Touch tones are composed of two overlapping frequencies. The frequencies that correspond to the number can be found by looking at the bottom row and far right column and matching them up with the number or * or #. (A,B,C,D are for military use only)
So I ripped the audio, popped it into my audio program, selected the portion of the audio that plays a tone.
Then ran a frequency spectrum analysys. What I was looking for were two narrow peaks which would correspond to the tone. For the first number, this is what I got:
These were at 947Hz and 1330Hz which are close to the values of 941Hz and 1336Hz on the table and correspond to a 0
The rest of the numbers turned out as follows:
another 0, 1, 5, 0, 8, 4, 9, 6, 6, 0, 9, 6,
so the number is:
001-508-496-6096 (I double checked)
001 is the calling code from the UK to the US so that checks out, but 508 is an area code in Massachusetts. Further, the whole number, 508-496-6096 when googled leads to a number of results for someone named 'Hal Rood'. Now if you do a google of 'Hal Rood' you get this page: http://www.strategicradiosolutions.com/hr.html
And what does it say on his bio?
"Over the past 14 years, Hal has worked with some of the world’s most successful radio brands, including 104.6 RTL/Berlin, DC-101/Washington, Europa Plus and Retro FM/Russia, Virgin Radio and RFM/France, Sky Radio / Holland, Key 103/Manchester, 98FM/Dublin, Globo Radio / Brasil, and Europa FM and Radio 21/Romania."
Bingo, someone in radio. Now unless Hal acquired Billie Joe's cellphone number sometime after 2005, or if Billie Joe happened to be using Hal's cell phone that night, then I think it's safe to say that this is fake.
There is one other possibility though, which might be a bit of a stretch--- The DJs may have been working with Hal and Hal had his cell phone calls automatically forward to Billie Joe's... but that seems way too convoluted.
So there you go. Fake.
Originally posted by ~Wålshy~
well i dunno its probably some american football thing and if you airhead americans are too stupid to realise that your football game isn't a ****ing global sport at all then