Re: Numbers Stations: Mystery Over The Airwaves

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Doug Humphrey <doug () joss com>
Date: July 17, 2010 11:17:05 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Cc: "ip" <ip () v2 listbox com>
Subject: Re: [IP] Numbers Stations: Mystery Over The Airwaves

I can recommend researching this:

Conet Project
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conet

He has a very interesting personal story as to why he did 
this, there is a little modern tie in (WILCO using his stuff
without license), he has captured a wide array of numbers 
stations samples, and it is free to download it off the net. 

doug






On Jul 17, 2010, at 9:19 PM, David Farber wrote:

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> From: dewayne () warpspeed com (Dewayne Hendricks)
> Date: July 17, 2010 7:27:38 PM EDT
> To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <xyzzy () warpspeed com>
> Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Numbers Stations: Mystery Over The Airwaves
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> Numbers Stations: Mystery Over The Airwaves
> by NPR STAFF
> <http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128586766>
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> In the shadowy corners of the shortwave radio spectrum, you can often find mysterious mechanical voices counting off 
> endless strings of numbers — in English, Czech, Russian and German … even Morse code. But who's listening?
>
> The voices are coming from what are known as "numbers stations," and they've long been thought to be part of 
> international espionage operations. In fact, the Russian spies recently captured here in the U.S. may have been 
> getting orders from Moscow via a shortwave numbers station.
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> Mark Stout is the official historian at the International Spy Museum. He tells NPR's Guy Raz that the stations are 
> unlicensed, which makes it hard to figure out where they're broadcasting from. And the mystery only deepens: No 
> government has ever officially admitted to using numbers stations. No one's really sure when the stations began 
> broadcasting, though they're most likely a Cold War-era invention.
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