Hi Lewis, I caught exactly this signal on 15 July 1998 on 5178kHz at 01:00, I have a number of recordings including a shift from whale to RTTY (250Hz shift) and RTTY to whale. I have always thought it was of NATO origin and was a pair of Tx/Rx stations with an open mic over RF feeding audio back, the strange sound being created by propagation conditions. Let me know if you'd like the recordings and spectrograms and I'll PM you. Great content as always. Cheers.
@@alex-E7WHU I've been fascinated with all things radio since I was a kid. I couldn't tell you why(?) Even after everyone owned a computer and got on the internet, etc etc, radio still feels "magical" to me. When I was still a kid, I remember going outside and messing around with a radio, trying to find a "weird" station (as if I was spying or something lol)
@@soundguydon You're basically me, I was "that kid who pulled everything apart" and as such got handed a lot of old, barely functional RF kit. I spent a lot of time getting them working (before puling them apart) and was mesmerised by the strange sounds and voices I would hear.I was active on BBS and usenet but still spoke to a lot of friends on 27MHz. I still mourn all the amazing gear I killed in the name of my own personal science. This channel is great; concise, accurate, with a sick jungle beat to boot. Ticks all my boxes yo.
This sound reminded me a bit of FT8 or what I currently learn about: Zombie Satellites. Decomissioned satellites that were shut down in the 60s or 70s. Thousands of failed charge attempts makes the content of the battery degrade and the battery itself becomes conductive, passing power from the solar panels directly to the electronics. Sometimes they come to life again and the satellite is sending weird stuff. Since those satellites aren't calibrated anymore it can cause havoc on the spectrum. Check out NOAA2, NOAA9 or LES1, it's amazing. There are even folks who write decoders as sometimes you can even squeeze some more or less useful data out of it.
@@Noname_2014 I cant post links here, UA-cam removes my comments. But RTL SDR Blog has some articles including demo videos. Also google the names of the satellites I mentioned, their Wiki has some Info. Or you can google zombie satellites in general.
Those whistling tones sound very much like audio feedback. The interesting part is that it's distinct tones, so it could be a way to mask data transmissions with VERY slow encoding. Perhaps used for submarine comms, and the feedback is just used as a means of steganography.
My favourite signal ever was from one of the sporadically transmitting tumbling satellites. Faint beeping, signal came and went with obvious bell curve.
I protest. This proves that US intelligence was listening into my primary school first-grade class when we "practised" playing the recorder flute. My teacher shut us down and let us play other instruments already in the 1970s as he was worried we were breaching the Geneva Convention by creating cruel and unusual punishment every week. What should be calming for everyone is that our recorder practice contained zero signals of intelligence during the brief cold-war period where we had to try and handle the worst instrument in history to learn to make music on for a class of 6-year-old kids.
Yeah, teach me how to balance my checkbook, pay taxes, fix a leaky faucet, interview for a job, sew on a button, or make a meal? Nah....let's teach him how to play Hot Cross Buns on a plastic recorder!
HAHAHA, just was I was thinking (same torture instrument, same period for me) , it just misses the unfortunate teacher shouting "SHARP for God's sake, that is a G SHARP!'
""practised" playing the recorder flute" You beat me to it. I was going to say that the intent of this signal is to prepare and condition parents to home practice with recorders by their children.
The times I've heard it on shortwave was always late at night...after a while it was always followed by another very strong transmission booming 5+9+30....from our loft bedroom .......identified as the "xyl station" bellowing...... "TURN IT DOWN OR PLUG THOSE KENWOOD HEADPHONES IN !!!!" Happy to say we celebrate 30 years of wedded bliss next year 😅 Great info Lewis keep em coming rog x
Uncanny! Would you believe I also have received VERY similar unexpected voice transmissions to yours? It also came from upstairs, and the forward power just about had my ears bleeding. I do use headphones alot more often, now, and we're currently engaged so they must work. Great story mate, thanks hahaha.
The voices heard suggest a microphone picking up feedback. It could be a quick and dirty method of producing some kind of a variable tone for testing purposes.
If it's audio feedback, I'd assume, given the changing pitch, there would have to be some mechanism which constantly modulates the feedback phase/path, or the pitch would just be constant...that's what I don't understand.
@@nillchenYeah, the sudden shifts in frequency makes me think that it isn't feedback, and that it's some sort of proprietary very low baudrate digital data mode, and the falling pitch of each tone could be some form of hardening the signal against atmospheric interference.
I'll bet it is an intentionally-annoying marker signal that's meant to keep anyone else from using the band. They make the tones chaotic and disharmonious, and therefore annoying, to discourage voice (or other mode) use, and make it impossible to just use simple notch or noise filters to remove the interference.
It sounds like when you spin a piece of plastic drain hose around and around very quickly and it starts whistling in different tones. Take those tones, sample them, put them in a loop, and you get the sound.
That " washing machine " one is creepy. It sounds to me just like some space recordings. Not long ago I was watching vids of recordings of planets and such that satelite and probes have caught , very creepy and similar sounds. This one sounds like someone turning the dial trying to find and fine tune a channel on receiver. Something I was curious about awhile back , has any new oddity popped up since Space Force went mainstream?
That doesn't sound like feedback to me, the pitch change doesn't make sense unless the speaker and mic are being moved closer together and further apart again constantly - Just my 2 cents.
That is someone feeding back a rx back into the tx, speaker to microphone. They seem to have the rx and tx pretty well netted onto each other. As the change in tones sound like the RX is only a few hz down on the tx. Most of the tone changes are due to changing acoustics, moving the mic about etc. It sounds like someone just messing about whilst bored. Done it myself.
@@nillchen if you've got a slowly modulated device in the signal path (I've done it with e.g. cheap guitar stomp boxes) you can achieve this effect without needing to move the mic.
Yes sounds just like the washing machine I used back then as a student. I always put it down to my self walking socks and dirty underwear arguing and protesting at being washed lol.
Anyone remember that (UK) Chris Morris' series Jam on Channel 4 back in 2000? Sounds like one of the bizarre lo-fi-esq tracks from it. Edit: "Jam Piss Doctor" in UA-cam search. Apologies, but the entire Jam series is quite comedically f***ked-up.
Isn't 14, 230 in the middle of the 20 meter amateur radio band, near the Slow Scan frequency? Listen to the the tune, the Whale, from the band, Electric Light Orcestra, in the late 1970's and early 1980's 😅
Honestly some of it sounds like feedback with a bit of delay. We get the same effect now when remotes/callin listeners have their radios turned up. It varies I am guessing due to it going through all the processors which I am sure go nuts trying to correct it and the now varying delay buffers of the links I have between the studios and towers. It's stays as close to real time like the old analog links as possible but not quite. Needless to say this is not a desired effect on broadcast FM but if I will see if I can catch a recording of it sometime. It gets really weird.
There's nothing special about this really. It's just what happens when an Australian magpie gets hold of a transmitter. If the backwards music section doesn't convince people of this, nothing will.
I clearly remember hearing this for the first time around 12 years ago while randomly scrolling through the band with my Yaesu VR-500 at midnight. It sent chills down my spine 🫣
I do believe it is the Lincompex mode as I have this mode of operation on my Sunair RT-9000 and LPA-9600 amp, but this mode cannot be used in the Ham bands.
Perhaps it is the sound that results when the pre-amp and transmitter alone are powered-up without any input connected - The various analog feedback loops like volume leveling, tone and power adjustment, etc are all interacting with line noise in an abnormal way when the input signal is completely absent (ie very high impedance and sensitive to tiny transients) not just zero signal meaning quiet, but a floating input.
The first time I heard this it really freaked me out. It sounded really 'other worldly'. I think this about 10-15 years ago, around 10MHz and in the UK.
This could be kind of chrip modulation (with non linear change in frequency) like LoRA, it could transmit to 3 bytes for 2 seconds for very long range and with very small error rate
I take issue with your title, Lewis, and would like to suggest that the worst signal ever heard is the sound of your pager going off at the most inopportune or inconvenient moment. That signal hunts you down, and there is no escape, except down a mine, or hiding in a fridge.
I accidentally keyed up on a radio while listening to the same frequency on my other rig with a different antenna, and got feedback which sounded EXACTLY like this. It's definitely feedback
I wish I could help you out, But I'm on a fixed income. But I sure do enjoy your vid"s. I hope to work you on the air waves some day. Greetings for Canada. 73's Kevin. (VA3GSI).
First thing out of my mouth watching this was "sounds like data". Then I had to look up baud rates of radio and when I pulled myself out of THAT wormhole 3 days later I finished the video. I'll let you know what I thought when we get there. I'm totally on board with the using old tech with modern programming idea. Follow that one.
That seems to remind me of listening in the 80s when on far tip of Long Island with an old slim boombox that had SW. But, I could be wrong... memory not that great.
A ''whale song' CD that sounded like that would be anything but relaxing, it sounds more like 'Jimi Live at Monterey' trashing his guitar after setting fire to it😊
XM sounds like this one ice cream truck by my house... I have never seen it but it plays "turkey in the staw" then the squeaking like XM. I thought that was a broken tape or something, but my other half said its different squeaking every day. The conspiracy theorist in me thinks its Spys. The realist thinks its a crappy speaker.
It sounds like Yoko Ono and her greatest hits…
lol
The worst signal ever heard is 'de GKB QRY 54 UP GKC AS' 😞
That doesn’t even sound like music let alone backwards music. It sounds more like microphone feedback than anything else.
Hi Lewis, I caught exactly this signal on 15 July 1998 on 5178kHz at 01:00, I have a number of recordings including a shift from whale to RTTY (250Hz shift) and RTTY to whale. I have always thought it was of NATO origin and was a pair of Tx/Rx stations with an open mic over RF feeding audio back, the strange sound being created by propagation conditions.
Let me know if you'd like the recordings and spectrograms and I'll PM you. Great content as always. Cheers.
Hey don't put down the signal like that, it's trying its best.
Thank you for knowing how to spell “it‘s” and “its”. I salute you!
@@vinylarchaeologist Still trying to justify what you spent on that education
@@bowdoin5063 💯💀💀
I'm not sure there has EVER been better HAM content in history than what Ringway puts out.
I just wish he published his scripts as well. Most of his videos are basically podcasts with B-roll footage.
Agreed! - I love this channel!
I have no interest in ham radio whatsoever but I find this channel fascinating.👍
@@alex-E7WHU I've been fascinated with all things radio since I was a kid. I couldn't tell you why(?) Even after everyone owned a computer and got on the internet, etc etc, radio still feels "magical" to me.
When I was still a kid, I remember going outside and messing around with a radio, trying to find a "weird" station (as if I was spying or something lol)
@@soundguydon You're basically me, I was "that kid who pulled everything apart" and as such got handed a lot of old, barely functional RF kit. I spent a lot of time getting them working (before puling them apart) and was mesmerised by the strange sounds and voices I would hear.I was active on BBS and usenet but still spoke to a lot of friends on 27MHz. I still mourn all the amazing gear I killed in the name of my own personal science.
This channel is great; concise, accurate, with a sick jungle beat to boot. Ticks all my boxes yo.
CRAP! Open mic while I was practicing guitar. My bad
Oops
You sure it was guitar and not tin whistle?
Narr hot mic on the loo, must be itv4
@@danners4302an electric tin whistle
Your bad?
I like it.
Add a heavy bass and some reverb, and you get a Jesus and Mary Chain album ❤
This sound reminded me a bit of FT8 or what I currently learn about: Zombie Satellites. Decomissioned satellites that were shut down in the 60s or 70s. Thousands of failed charge attempts makes the content of the battery degrade and the battery itself becomes conductive, passing power from the solar panels directly to the electronics. Sometimes they come to life again and the satellite is sending weird stuff. Since those satellites aren't calibrated anymore it can cause havoc on the spectrum. Check out NOAA2, NOAA9 or LES1, it's amazing. There are even folks who write decoders as sometimes you can even squeeze some more or less useful data out of it.
Zombie satellites...great here we go down another radio wormhole
Very nice :)
Did you have examples?
@@Noname_2014 I cant post links here, UA-cam removes my comments. But RTL SDR Blog has some articles including demo videos. Also google the names of the satellites I mentioned, their Wiki has some Info. Or you can google zombie satellites in general.
Those whistling tones sound very much like audio feedback. The interesting part is that it's distinct tones, so it could be a way to mask data transmissions with VERY slow encoding. Perhaps used for submarine comms, and the feedback is just used as a means of steganography.
While everyone is listening to this trying to figure out what it is, the real message is being sent on a different frequency . 😂😂😂
I was thinking very similar, except maybe this is the second component: one needs to receive both signals to reproduce the original message or audio.
My favourite signal ever was from one of the sporadically transmitting tumbling satellites. Faint beeping, signal came and went with obvious bell curve.
are there by chance any recordings of such a signal? i had a quick search but came up empty
It sounds like someone in the early stages of learning the Patagonian Nose Pipe.
Didn't South Park cover that?
It's dolphins. The noises translate to: "So long and thanks for all the fish."
so sad that it should come to this
I protest. This proves that US intelligence was listening into my primary school first-grade class when we "practised" playing the recorder flute. My teacher shut us down and let us play other instruments already in the 1970s as he was worried we were breaching the Geneva Convention by creating cruel and unusual punishment every week.
What should be calming for everyone is that our recorder practice contained zero signals of intelligence during the brief cold-war period where we had to try and handle the worst instrument in history to learn to make music on for a class of 6-year-old kids.
Dude I was doing it in the early 2000s as a kid. And I believe they still are doing it 😅
Yeah, teach me how to balance my checkbook, pay taxes, fix a leaky faucet, interview for a job, sew on a button, or make a meal? Nah....let's teach him how to play Hot Cross Buns on a plastic recorder!
HAHAHA, just was I was thinking (same torture instrument, same period for me) , it just misses the unfortunate teacher shouting "SHARP for God's sake, that is a G SHARP!'
""practised" playing the recorder flute" You beat me to it. I was going to say that the intent of this signal is to prepare and condition parents to home practice with recorders by their children.
We have to resist them by inventing a new mode that sounds like sixteen 6-year-olds practicing the violin, each in a slightly different key. 😋
1:06 "Whales as in the mammal not the country. Wales as in the country not the mammal..." 😆 Got a good chuckle out of that.
The times I've heard it on shortwave was always late at night...after a while it was always followed by another very strong transmission booming 5+9+30....from our loft bedroom .......identified as the "xyl station" bellowing...... "TURN IT DOWN OR PLUG THOSE KENWOOD HEADPHONES IN !!!!"
Happy to say we celebrate 30 years of wedded bliss next year 😅
Great info Lewis keep em coming rog x
Uncanny! Would you believe I also have received VERY similar unexpected voice transmissions to yours? It also came from upstairs, and the forward power just about had my ears bleeding.
I do use headphones alot more often, now, and we're currently engaged so they must work. Great story mate, thanks hahaha.
@@aspergeriolol
Big LOLS 73S 😅
Worlds most depressed ice cream van :D
The voices heard suggest a microphone picking up feedback. It could be a quick and dirty method of producing some kind of a variable tone for testing purposes.
If it's audio feedback, I'd assume, given the changing pitch, there would have to be some mechanism which constantly modulates the feedback phase/path, or the pitch would just be constant...that's what I don't understand.
@@nillchenYeah, the sudden shifts in frequency makes me think that it isn't feedback, and that it's some sort of proprietary very low baudrate digital data mode, and the falling pitch of each tone could be some form of hardening the signal against atmospheric interference.
Sounds like a hearing aid with a flat battery.
Sounds fine to me.
zamn, these merzbow releases just keep getting more and more obscure
Humpback whales trying to communicate with the Voyager space probes.
Send for Captain Kirk, or this isn't going to end well. 😁
"Want to hear the most annoying sound in the world?"
Sounds like one of those variable carrier signals, once used for rudamentary security. Or possibly doppeler compensated transmissions for satcoms?
(Thinks up “clever” musical instrument played badly analogy…) reads comments..😬
THIS is why I NEVER ATTEMPTED playing any WIND INSTRUMENTS...😊
As a clarinet player I confirm this sound like my first attempts back in 5th grade. 😂
I'll bet it is an intentionally-annoying marker signal that's meant to keep anyone else from using the band. They make the tones chaotic and disharmonious, and therefore annoying, to discourage voice (or other mode) use, and make it impossible to just use simple notch or noise filters to remove the interference.
Sounds like me in 3rd grade trying to play hot cross buns on a recorder
It sounds like when you spin a piece of plastic drain hose around and around very quickly and it starts whistling in different tones. Take those tones, sample them, put them in a loop, and you get the sound.
That " washing machine " one is creepy. It sounds to me just like some space recordings. Not long ago I was watching vids of recordings of planets and such that satelite and probes have caught , very creepy and similar sounds. This one sounds like someone turning the dial trying to find and fine tune a channel on receiver. Something I was curious about awhile back , has any new oddity popped up since Space Force went mainstream?
Oh dear some transmissions are just weirdly chilling! Love it Lewis thanks for your consistent content as always 👍🏼 brilliant
That doesn't sound like feedback to me, the pitch change doesn't make sense unless the speaker and mic are being moved closer together and further apart again constantly - Just my 2 cents.
You are correct sir...it is NOT feedback. It has also been around for at least 30 years.
Somebody learning the recorder? 😅
That's just me practising the violin to my fans in the depths of Siberia.
That is someone feeding back a rx back into the tx, speaker to microphone.
They seem to have the rx and tx pretty well netted onto each other. As the change in tones sound like the RX is only a few hz down on the tx. Most of the tone changes are due to changing acoustics, moving the mic about etc.
It sounds like someone just messing about whilst bored. Done it myself.
As someone who likes to play around with electronic "music"... this sound a hell of a lot like acoustic feedback.
...the pitch keeps on changing though...as if the path between microphone and speaker is constantly changing
@@nillchen if you've got a slowly modulated device in the signal path (I've done it with e.g. cheap guitar stomp boxes) you can achieve this effect without needing to move the mic.
@@nillchen a voltage controlled amplifier modulated by a very low frequency oscillator would do the trick quite nicely.
Yes sounds just like the washing machine I used back then as a student. I always put it down to my self walking socks and dirty underwear arguing and protesting at being washed lol.
Sounds like a Clanger with major depression ☹️
Anyone remember that (UK) Chris Morris' series Jam on Channel 4 back in 2000? Sounds like one of the bizarre lo-fi-esq tracks from it.
Edit: "Jam Piss Doctor" in UA-cam search. Apologies, but the entire Jam series is quite comedically f***ked-up.
Isn't 14, 230 in the middle of the 20 meter amateur radio band, near the
Slow Scan frequency?
Listen to the the tune, the Whale, from
the band, Electric Light Orcestra, in the
late 1970's and early 1980's 😅
I can identify with certainty that the "Whale Song" is in fact a recording of "The Gassy Piper" performed by Hamish "Cruddy" MacBrough made in 1973.
ALIENS!!!
Honestly some of it sounds like feedback with a bit of delay. We get the same effect now when remotes/callin listeners have their radios turned up. It varies I am guessing due to it going through all the processors which I am sure go nuts trying to correct it and the now varying delay buffers of the links I have between the studios and towers. It's stays as close to real time like the old analog links as possible but not quite. Needless to say this is not a desired effect on broadcast FM but if I will see if I can catch a recording of it sometime. It gets really weird.
I think I can translate the message in this signal. It says: "So long, and thanks for all the fish."
At 3:46 you hear the beginning of the Lincolnshire poacher
There's nothing special about this really. It's just what happens when an Australian magpie gets hold of a transmitter. If the backwards music section doesn't convince people of this, nothing will.
A lot of the comparisons I wasn't hearing, but Australian magpie is spot on. lol
It sounds like feedback.
Sounds like a depressed Klanger
I clearly remember hearing this for the first time around 12 years ago while randomly scrolling through the band with my Yaesu VR-500 at midnight. It sent chills down my spine 🫣
I do believe it is the Lincompex mode as I have this mode of operation on my Sunair RT-9000 and LPA-9600 amp, but this mode cannot be used in the Ham bands.
It's probably Stakker humanoid trying out his new over the horizon radar, I heard he is using some old aphex twin albums to test.
We can look forward to some smileys drawn using SSTV too!
If Eeyore ever launched a radio station........
Thats the Clangers on the moon talking to the Soup Dragon. For real.
Backwards.
It is my washing machine. Sorry, I'll turn it off. The repairman is due later today.
Perhaps it is the sound that results when the pre-amp and transmitter alone are powered-up without any input connected - The various analog feedback loops like volume leveling, tone and power adjustment, etc are all interacting with line noise in an abnormal way when the input signal is completely absent (ie very high impedance and sensitive to tiny transients) not just zero signal meaning quiet, but a floating input.
Boards of Canada apparently is releasing new music…..
😂😂
Love the imagery of the antenna surrounded by fog.
The first time I heard this it really freaked me out. It sounded really 'other worldly'. I think this about 10-15 years ago, around 10MHz and in the UK.
Yep me too. Freaked me out big time as a teenager in the 90s
It could be Aliens. Yes, it's Aliens. Obs. LOL.
This could be kind of chrip modulation (with non linear change in frequency) like LoRA, it could transmit to 3 bytes for 2 seconds for very long range and with very small error rate
I've got records that sound like this
Hearing the washing machine on 14.231 In Wisconsin USA, amplified loop 5-7 signal.
What times ? We are in Oklahoma.
found SSTV there
edit: S7-S9
I played it back at 1/8th speed, and you can clearly hear voices.
Feedback seems a little questionable since the tones are heard shifting frequency, suggesting a changing delay. Perhaps a mobile transmitter?
Thanks RM. Your Video's are Worth Their Weight in Gold. Keep up the Super Work****
Sounds like VK3YE's Halloween special.....
I take issue with your title, Lewis, and would like to suggest that the worst signal ever heard is the sound of your pager going off at the most inopportune or inconvenient moment.
That signal hunts you down, and there is no escape, except down a mine, or hiding in a fridge.
Definitely NOT Feedback or any sort of XMTR fault ! ......also, I have recordings of the signal from the 1990's.
Washing machine... Twin-tub or front-loading?! God, I'm showing my age there - imagine the young 'uns going: "What's a twin-tub?" Fascinating video.
It's a transmission of Paul McCartney's infamous Carnival Of Light recording?
I accidentally keyed up on a radio while listening to the same frequency on my other rig with a different antenna, and got feedback which sounded EXACTLY like this.
It's definitely feedback
I wish I could help you out, But I'm on a fixed income. But I sure do enjoy your vid"s. I hope to work you on the air waves some day. Greetings for Canada. 73's Kevin. (VA3GSI).
The "backwards music" description sounds more like 'Calliope in Hell' to my ears.... (instrument played at fairs)
First thing out of my mouth watching this was "sounds like data". Then I had to look up baud rates of radio and when I pulled myself out of THAT wormhole 3 days later I finished the video. I'll let you know what I thought when we get there.
I'm totally on board with the using old tech with modern programming idea. Follow that one.
I haven't watched the video, but I assume someone broadcast that Mccartney "wonderful christmas time" song? Nothing could be worse.
That doesn’t even sound like music let alone backwards music. It sounds more like microphone feedback than anything else.
I receive XM but all I get is music from the 80's! 🙂
Blimey, all these weird sounds on the radio convinces me the aliens have arrived!
there is now a weird signal on 4635khz... it is transmitting a Buzzer techno remix.
Sounds like feedback to me 😖😂 Very mysterious.
Cheers Lewis 👏
Sounds like a fudd trying to QRM my POTA activation.
That seems to remind me of listening in the 80s when on far tip of Long Island with an old slim boombox that had SW. But, I could be wrong... memory not that great.
The washing machine sounds more storms on Jupiters moon ie: radio astronomy
Leave it to (maybe) the Navy to (possibly) come up with a (could be) digital mode that sounds like whales.
A ''whale song' CD that sounded like that would be anything but relaxing, it sounds more like 'Jimi Live at Monterey' trashing his guitar after setting fire to it😊
XM sounds like this one ice cream truck by my house... I have never seen it but it plays "turkey in the staw" then the squeaking like XM. I thought that was a broken tape or something, but my other half said its different squeaking every day.
The conspiracy theorist in me thinks its Spys. The realist thinks its a crappy speaker.
Lewis, which SDR receiver software are you using? I like the analogue S meter :-)
The Whale is nothing more than a low bitrate data over HF, with error correction and frequency drop sync on both ends. I guess
Have you tried playing the backwards music station backwards(forward)?
Sounds like they are using a Costas array.
More info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_P._Costas_(engineer)
Sound like an Australian magpie… just being played slower
The backwards music sounds a bit like Australian magpies.
Sounds akin to feedback from a microphone resting against a speaker while left open.
Sounds akin to feedback from a microphone resting against a speaker while left open.
Speed it up and drop the MHz. It sounds like an old dialup modem, or zx spectrum running from a cassette deck.
Record the signal the reverse it In audacity and see how it sounds
Transmission from a TARDIS low on power...
Backwards whale washing station obviously
Sounds like someone learning to play the recorder (music instrument).
This really discourages people from listening to it, hurts my brain. lol