Numbers Radio Stations
Art or espionage? Mysterious radio stations broadcast numbers and codes 24/7. Who are they and what does it mean? We investigate the cold-war era phenomena. Conspiracy theorists will love this, Show it to your paranoid friends today!
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Nostalgia…
Cold …
Nostalgia…
Cold war atmospheare was so particular…
And just think… …
And just think… Somewhere out there there’s probably some retired spy or government assassin who’s watching these vids and laughing at how people make such a big thing out of what are probably just top secret, mundane, boring orders.
“Go here, go there, kill him, steal that…”
I like it, too. I’d …
I like it, too. I’d like to get that cd.
dude i hate this …
dude i hate this things it sucks i have bean reading all night just to try understand what the point if it
An FM radio has no …
An FM radio has no capability of transmission dude…
During World War II …
During World War II the Jap Navy sent coded groups of five numbers each….each set of five numbers had a specific meaning such as “ring up flank speed on heading 217″ or “contact logistics Borneo on 346 kc on midwatch”….these were known as “book codes” and were entirely different from the “Purple Code” or electromechanical (based on German Enigma) code machines used by the Diplomatic staff….the Japanese Naval Code was almost too easy for American cryptographers to break….Purple was NOT.
they’ve gone far …
they’ve gone far beyond that technology now, they can now listen in on you through your fm radio, me and my friend found this out one day, whoever was listening to us even communicated to us through the stereo, kind of messing with us, for the longest time i thought it must have been some type of ghost or something, till i realized it might be some type of government spy technology, its either a ghost or some sort of spy tech stuff, i dont think it was a ghost.
Aaaah, so that’s …
Aaaah, so that’s the guy behind the Conet Project.
What is really …
What is really creepy (to me anyways), is this all sounds like something plucked from Stephen Kings “Dark Tower” series. How do we know these stations weren’t created by North Central Positronics? LOL
I remember picking …
I remember picking one up on my cheap hifi in the late 80’s and being very weirded out by the experience, then in the late 90’s I recieved a promotional Conet Project CD from Irdial disks and immediately remembered that experience i’d had as a kid and i’ve been fascinated by them ever since.
Check out some of …
As for a radio, almost anything with single side band tuning will do – but even the most cheapest shortwave radio will pick up the Cuban numbers station, for instance, with a long wire antenna.
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Very interesting! …
Very interesting! As an complete newbie to this field, could anyone with some experience in listening to these transmissions, give some advice on what basic recivers could be good to purchase?thanks
Very curious, I’d …
Very curious, I’d vaguely heard of numbers stations but didn’t actually know what they were.
I could believe some of them could well be broadcasting secret intelligence messages – equally the aim could be to waste the time of rival intelligence organisations by spamming the airwaves with meaningless … er, number gibberish?
i think that …
do u really believe thats fun?
i think that listening to them is very creepy, i in my pants when hearing those sounds
These ham ops …
These ham ops saying “we don’t know where they are coming from”…ever hear of a goniometer?…ever hear of triangulation? Remember CONELRAD?…it was purposely set up so that emergency signals could be fragmented and then widely scattered stations would each take preprogrammed turns transmitting individual fragments so enemy bombers could not home in on the signals…maybe that is what is going on here.
Solo bromeaba amigo …
Solo bromeaba amigo, saludos.
I hear numbers …
I hear numbers stations here in Mexico. I heard them while living in Seattle. In Europe. There are also numbers stations using “broad spectrum” modulation. Using spectrum analysis software you can decode them. Similar to the slow CW QRP so popular now.
PUes piensa: hay …
PUes piensa: hay portugueses, españoles y latinoamericanos en Europa y en Africa. El mundo es muuuucho más grande que el pequeño mundo gringo o mexicanoo. saludos
Korean Numbers …
Korean Numbers Station observed here Central California Coast- mornings on 6215 KHz. Music followed by female counter: sets of five numbers, about 5-6 minutes duration. Signal stronger than 5715 KHz parallel, maybe 200-250 Kw?
Signal (typical): fair to good, through noise and turbulence; some selective fade. Subject to weak co-channel interference and low frequency heterodyne (perhaps, Radio Balurdrte, Argentina 1 Kw ?)
Useable signal over superb Sea Water Circuit.
TNX
Buy a good …
Buy a good shortwave radio, and tune in. Listening is so fun.
There was a day …
There was a day when rubber plant seeds were worth more than gold and that caught smuggling them out of South America could entail DEATH PENALTY. Like diamonds, someone eventually got some out. Rubber plants grow proliferlously in tropical enviroments and the Firestone family quickly established plantations throughout the world. To maintain production and shipping of latex billets they established one of the first commercial HF networks: fuel is worthless without a rubber tire. WB2SGT
I recall something …
I recall something about the Firestone network, what did they do on HF?
Nah, one or two of …
Nah, one or two of the stations have been definitively traced to military bases (I believe its Lynconshire Poacher out of Cyprus)
That black guy (no …
That black guy (no offense) sounds like John Travolta.
This video is awful …
This video is awful. It skips and jumps about making the entire thing almost impossible to understand. Get better software!