Valve are up to something.
They patched Portal today and the patch notes read:
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Changed radio transmission frequency to comply with federal and state spectrum management regulations
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The
steam forums immediately jumped on it and found 17 minutes of morse code, a
new achievement called 'Transmission Received' and this:
Turns out the code comes from moving in game radios to certain points (that achievement comes from putting the radio on to the big red button on the first stage, which then spits out morse code) and the loud thing from above is when you throw a radio into a forcefield.
First translated message reads:
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interior transmission active external data line active message digest active
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IT'S A MYSTERY!
EDIT: here's what we have so far
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Interior transmission active
External data line active
Message digest active
System data dump active
User back up active
Password back up active
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
BEEP BEEEP BEEP BEEP
LOL
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Some of the morse code can be converted into images:
more images
here