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For more than 30 years the Shortwave radio spectrum has been used by the worlds intelligence agencies to transmit secret messages. These messages are transmitted by hundreds of “Numbers Stations”. Shortwave Numbers Stations are a perfect method of anonymous, one way communication. Spies located anywhere in the world can be communicated to by their masters via small, locally available, and unmodified Shortwave receivers. The encryption system used by Numbers Stations, known as a “one time pad” is unbreakable. Combine this with the fact that it is almost impossible to track down the message recipients once they are inserted into the enemy country, it becomes clear just how powerful the Numbers Station system is. These stations use very rigid schedules, and transmit in many different languages, employing male and female voices repeating strings of numbers or phonetic letters day and night, all year round. The voices are of varying pitches and intonation; there is even a German station (The Swedish Rhapsody) that transmits a female child's voice! One might think that these espionage activities should have wound down considerably since the official “end of the cold war”, but nothing could be further from the truth. Numbers Stations (and by inference, spies) are as busy as ever, with many new and bizarre stations appearing since the fall of the Berlin wall. Why is it that in over 30 years, the phenomenon of Numbers Stations has gone almost totally unreported? What are the agencies behind the Numbers Stations, and why are the eastern European stations still on the air? Why does the Czech republic operate a Numbers Station 24 hours a day? How is it that Numbers Stations are allowed to interfere with essential radio services like air traffic control and shipping without having to answer to anybody? Why does the “Swedish Rhapsody” Numbers Station use a small girls voice? LAZY_TITL |
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"Why is it that in over 30 years, the phenomenon of numbers Stations has gone almost totally unreported?" I don't know. <----------------------!!! |
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haha,maybe cos now we have satellites and all that neow equipment. tho,large ammount of the codes were unbreakable even by computers. btw,try to find the swedish rhapsody in the links...it's really something to hear,spooky as hell. |
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We've had them a lot longer than that. My Dad came across a number station (although he only realised what it was recently, when I explained what they were) at least 45 years ago! |
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yeah,they have an long existance...i think they started when world war I begun. the government needed to have an secure channel to be in touch with their agents. |
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You can download free the entire 4CD's worth of number sations recordings from the Conet Project on Irdial discs at |
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in other hand it's weird how come that noone admitted the existance of the numrebs stations... if you listen to boc closely you'll hear some of the transmissions being choped by them. if there wasn't for boc i wouldn't be aware of this stuff. |
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damn..i just got the newsletter from iridial saying that there's an free download site for the conet project,tho they didn't put the linkage. thanks man... |
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Ace, i just double checked it as i think the Irdial free catalogue doesn't have files at the moment, but the hyperreal mirror has them all. |
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no they don't have it...i already checked that,and even contacted them,cos the conet project was out of print for some time. how the hell did you found that page? i found one dewd on slsk who has all the 4 cd's but the queue is freekin long. |
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Well, i got them off of Irdial about 6 months ago, when i first heard about Numbers stations, only from reading much entertaining weirdness at . But I just noticed now the Irdial files are down but there is a link on their with a link to the mirror at and . There's some quite interesting files on there. |
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yeah,i checked the linkage u posted for hyperreal..they have the whole iridial catalogue,which is tha bomb. i would love to have the original shit,but i'm unemployed currently so i'll have to wait. lol |
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Number stations are really something. Very spooky. |
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how does one track them down expensive radio? |
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u don't have to have expencive radio...if you have shortwave option on it then you're good to get them, but the best way is to have an cb radiostation. still,that's not so easy cos u gotta know how one operates... they have their own times when broadcasting the codes,and nowdays it's like 1 of 100 that u'll came across one,cos they don't operate so frequently. |
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My work involves tracking down these stations. We use special dogs. Of all the numbers, number 2 has the foulest smell and is also the easiest to find. |
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Numbers stations are shortwave radio stations of uncertain origin that broadcast streams of numbers, words, or phonetic sounds. No one knows for sure where their signals originate or what purpose they serve. The voices that can be heard on these stations are often those of children, or are mechanically generated. Numbers stations appear and disappear continuously, although some stick to regular schedules. It has been speculated that these stations operate as a simple and foolproof method for government agencies to communicate with spies "in the field", using the transmitted codes as a one-time pad cryptosystem. well, i've just listened to a few of these. very, very creepy stuff. listen . |
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bump. someone else must be fascinated by this. |
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Yeah, number stations are amazing, chilling stuff. One of the best i ever heard was a recording of the last ceausescu-era romaninan broadcast. The tension was absolutely amazing. I sample them a lot for my music. There's a few good links out there if you look, this page might be a bit outdated but there's some good info and some non-conet recordings on some linked sites: |
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wow, sounds pretty amazing.. do you have a link to the romanian one? is it the skylark recording available on the page you linked to? |
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Hmmm... i'll have a looksee, maybe i can find where it came from. If not, i can share it on slsk, it's only a couple of meg i think (3 minutes or so). |
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cool, thanks! terminat. terminat. terminat. |
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u two need to dl the whole conet project cd's...everything is on em! |
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I was making a track using numbers stations tonight; and I'll be damned! To my ears sounds like the sample source for Boc's Gyroscope, without a doubt. |
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yeah, i think you're right. i just listened to it side by side, and the resemblance is uncanny. the numbers spoken aren't the same -- but boc could've just chopped it back up and rearranged the digits. |
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