Morse code message in "Early Retirement"

[oldbastard42]

Completely useless info, but it took me ages to decode so I thought I'd share what I learnt just for fun.

 

In the Creation Club addon "Early Retirement", the player has to listen to a "strange signal" on their PipBoy's radio. It's a garbled morse-code message that repeats every sixty seconds.

 

With a lot of head scratching and applying filters in Audacity (Filter curve tool @550 Hz), I finally managed to decipher it.

 

The Courser (Player) is called B-263.

 

Here's what I got;

 

00 to 4.5 secs: -... -....- ..--- -.... ...--
b - 2 6 3
05 to 9.5 secs: .. -. -.-. --- -- .. -. --.
i n c o m i n g
9.5 to 14.5 secs: -- . ... ... .- --. . --..--
m e s s a g e ,
14.5 to 18.2 secs: .-. . - .-. .. . ...- .
r e t r i e v e
18.2 to 19.3 secs: ..-. .-
f a
22.5 to 25.0 secs: -- .. -. .- .-..
m i n a l
25.2 to 31.3 secs: ---.. -.... ---.. .- .-.-.- -... -....
8 6 8 a . b 6
33.0 to 34.4 secs: ... ...--
s 3
34.6 to 39.3 secs: .. -. -.-. --- -- .. -. --.
i n c o m i n g
39.5 to 43.4 secs: -- . ... ... .- --. . --
m e s s a g e m
45.0 to 47.6 secs: . - .-. .. . ...- .
e t r i e v e
48.0 to 50.5 secs: ..-. .-. --- --
f r o m
51.0 to 55.0: - . .-. -- .. (.)-. .- .-..
t e r m i n a l
55.0 to 59.5 secs: ---.. -.... ---.. .- .-.-.-
8 6 8 a .

.-.-.- = Full stop symbol .
-....- = Minus symbol -
.--.-. = @ symbol @
....... = Space
--..-- = Comma symbol ,
-.-.-- = Exclamation mark !
..--.. = Question mark ?

 

Obviously it's not complete, but you can get the general idea from the parts I managed to decipher.

 

I'm still not sure what "868a" or "b6s3" mean though, maybe map grid references? The "b6s3" part could be a misinterpreted "B-263" I guess, but "868a" appears twice so I believe I got that part right.

 

If anyone else has done this better than me, I'd love to hear about it.

 

Regards :).