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For more than 30 years the shortwave radio spectrum has been used by the world’s 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.
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.
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| FULL TRACK Moscow Coup Attempt [S7C] | 0:19 |
| FULL TRACK M3A [M3A] | 0:22 |
| FULL TRACK 167 [S6E] | 1:53 |
| FULL TRACK M3B [M3B] | 0:50 |
| FULL TRACK 298 [S6] | 1:53 |
| FULL TRACK 815 [S6] | 1:24 |
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Anticitizenone_ wrote:
I don't like this. The drops aren't filthy enough. [2]
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gr8desu wrote:
Only magnetic fields, only JMJ!
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uranutan wrote:
I don't like this. The drops aren't filthy enough.
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SequenceC wrote:
Very interesting set of recordings, some are particularly creepy, my favourite is 'Gong Station/Chimes'
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Zimmerman333 wrote:
And the "8-3-11"
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Self-MadeWolf wrote:
Similiar to this should be: Alan Lamb, Cities Last Broadcast, Alvin Lucier (on "Music for Solo Performer" he used brain waves to generate sound), Max Neuhaus or maybe Set Fire to Flames.
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dyna-soar wrote:
uh oh.
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obscvre wrote:
I like to rot to this
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ron6deathorgy wrote:
Fell upon a great sleep on listening and had naice dreams
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ataxiaanome wrote:
Great to listen to when falling asleep :)
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Catatonicat wrote:
Perhaps they're messages from Lord Xenu subliminally instructing to join Scientology.
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Apolotary wrote:
and way too easy to scrobble >_<
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Apolotary wrote:
creepy
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GeronkoMan wrote:
Jaw-some.
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TheDragon6 wrote:
favorite band ever
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Heemeyer wrote:
would love to see them live, eheheh
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p-hop wrote:
I actually caught the Cuban lady a few times on my shortwave, but the Conet Project recordings are great and beat drifting through frequencies for hours and hearing nothing because the weather over the Atlantic is working against you or whatever.
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ooochild wrote:
yankee hotel foxtrot
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triangleomer wrote:
4 7 2 6 9 5 9 0 6 9 5 0 8 9 9 8 4 2 9 9 2 4 5 3 7 6 8 5 3 7 6 8 9 5 9 5 8 9 5 9 5 3 7 5 4 4 5 7 5 4 4 5 4 3 7 3 3 4 3 7 3 3 5 5 5 8 2 5 5 5 8 3 7 9 3 7 3 7 9 3 7 3 8 6 5 9 6 3 6
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WasNotWhyNot wrote:
I'm starting to go a little crazy.
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