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Free opinion needs free media and the medium as an massage for our soul

Infolab is transmitting on shortwave 40m, 11m and 3cm via satellite QO100. Ham callsign: OE5FXC
Mcluhen in digital media

History

Marshall McLuhan, Tetsuo Kogawa, Peter Weibel, Shulea Cheang, Bob Adrian X, On Kawara, Van Gogh TV, STWST-TV etc. started to abstract media to get an outside view. They created a new context, and for me, this created the foundation for intellectual thinking to continue in the digital information age. We are in search of independent information carriers, because without an outsider's perspective, the Internet threatens to become an uncontrollable information medium, a loss of perspective and ultimately a loss of humanity.. Fortunately, the electromagnetic space with its physics still offers the basis for individual positions a carrier medium that contains all layers of this technology. The generation of regular electromagnetic signals means that we can still quietly perceive our human signals separately from the global internet.

QO100 - Recieving dish
and CB Antenna on
building of Stadtwerkstatt
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"010000000000000" "010000000000001" "010000000000010" "010000000000011" "010000000000100" "010000000000101" "010000000000110" "010000000000111"



Signs of life in electromagnetic space

We have been sending signals into electromagnetic space since 1989. Since 2007, the transmitters have been located on self-sufficient floating islands, boats in Amsterdam, Hamburg, Udine and Linz.

Since 2020, we have been sending a sign of life from Linz via independent media into what is now a machine-based information age. On shortwave with a frequency of 7040kHz and 27245kHz in "Whisper" technology, and from 2021 via the amateur radio satellite ES'Hail QO100 in the near 180 year old FAX format.
2008 -2010 from the art ship Franz Feigl(Shortwave) in Linz

2012-2023 transmitting from the ship Eleonore in Linz

Start using QO100 satellite for faxsimiles stwst48x7.stwst.at(2021):


faxsimiles 2023 ongoing:

halfbit-lab fax

The latest Signals

10489.6152 Mhz recieve FAXsimilies daily on satellite QO100 23°EAST our using our SDR(Software defined Radio) via https://openwebrx.halfbit.org with a 120cm Dish on the Stadtwerkstatt building in Linz.
27.245 Mhz For a morse code signal you can use a free CB-Radio. Antenna and transmitter are on the roof of Stadtwerkstatt Linz.
7.042 Mhz WSPR connections every 3 Hours or check lu7aa.org directly. Our broacasting station is now Lindabrunn/Metafunk


There is a second reason why we are transmitting and receiving signals in the electromagnetic space

We need a new art context for digital media




The use of analogue media is still relatively simple, as you can hear on Marshall McLuhan's recording from 1967. The technical equipment is an extension of our eyes and ears and a part of us. But with digital media, everything becomes very complicated, so we need a new abstraction of logical truths. We need a new perspective that can counter logical cognition. We need a view from a different reality. For an intellect in a digital world, we need to learn how to deal with complex information. In maths, the square root of minus one is used for this. Complex information is the only way to bring human emotions into the world of logical truth.
So the first step is: don't think about this to very much and let's have fun - now! Believe me, this is the mathematically correct decision in the world of complex numbers.


Faxsimile: "Sandhole" used as radio telescope 2021 for listening the past.




Root of minus one / t-shirts, shirts or hoodies
Previous Layers:

2021-2024 Radiotopia
2021 MAKE ME A SIGNAL - Shu Lea Cheang, Adriana Knouf, Franz Xaver
2020 STWST48x6: Freie Meinung braucht freie Medien
2019 Darko Fritz: STWST48: I am Still Alive
2019 Sandhole by Francine Xavier
2017 Franz Xaver: funkfeuer.de WSPR Net Amsterdam - Hamburg - Linz
2016 Franz Xaver: STWST 7067 - Its not a Test
2011 Franz Xaver: Donautik Eleonore - ABT11
2007 Franz Xaver: Sendezeichen F.Feigl

1993 Stadtwerkstatt TV: Freie Meinung braucht freie Medien - Radio Fro
1993 The electromagnetic space received via Meteosat3 20 years ago in the 150 year old FAX format.
1989 Franz Xaver: Packetradio NOS - KA9Q
1969/1973 On Kawara: I am Still Alive -- Museum of Modern Art - New York
1967 Marshall McLuhan: The Medium is the Massage