numbers station

rtil · June 2, 2008 02:44 AM

i thought this was interesting.

QuoteNumbers stations are shortwave radio stations of uncertain origin. They generally broadcast voices reading streams of numbers, words, letters (sometimes using a radio alphabet), tunes or Morse code.

The voices that can be heard on these stations are often mechanically generated. They are in a wide variety of languages, and the voices are usually women's, though sometimes men's or children's voices are used.

Evidence supports popular assumptions that the broadcasts are channels of communication used to send messages to spies. This has not been publicly acknowledged by any government that may operate a numbers station, but in one case, Cuban numbers station espionage has been publicly prosecuted in a United States federal court.

Numbers stations appear and disappear over time (although some follow regular schedules), and their overall activity has increased slightly since the early 1990s. This increase suggests that, as spy-related phenomena, they were not unique to the Cold War.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station

my favorite station was UVB-76

"The Conet Project" is a 4-disc set full of mp3's of recordings of numbers stations around the world. you can download them all here.

my favorite ones are the swedish rhapsody, dashes and ciocirlia. i want to make songs out of them haha

i dunno what it is about them but i think it's the mystery and the creepiness of them that i like. i downloaded all 4 discs and i've been listening to them all day

rtil · June 2, 2008 02:51 AM

also gong station chimes is really good too

MRat · June 2, 2008 02:52 AM

I used to be obsessed with this sort of shit. I'd love to hear some songs of theese haha.

FG_SPace · June 2, 2008 02:56 AM

spooky. "dashes" sounds like something from a Firth cartoon. maybe its a way to wake up sleeper cells or something crazy like The Signal

bcube · June 2, 2008 03:00 AM

all of this scraed the shit outta me ):
I couldnt listen to all of them.
but a song out of this would be cool.
I imagine more of a crazy and weird flash with these things though.

Michelle · June 2, 2008 03:11 AM

wow these are fucking great

and they're all making my leg go numb but it's almost pleasurable

cr0m · June 2, 2008 03:25 AM

this is some cool shit right here can you fucken believe it

sQueef · June 2, 2008 03:30 AM

for real son this is th shyt

no but really if i picked one of these up by accident driving around or something I would start to freak out

rtil · June 2, 2008 03:42 AM

you can't pick these up on regular car radios, their frequencies are often higher or lower than standard car AM range

aaa nancy adam susan and dfd21 dfc47 are some real hot tracks

sQueef · June 2, 2008 04:09 AM

well thanks for the info

cr0m · June 2, 2008 04:43 AM

zzz i have some scanners

ZekeySpaceyLizard · June 2, 2008 08:37 AM

I used to have a big fat folder of these.

i wonder where it went....

sQueef · June 3, 2008 02:02 AM

and this is why I love normalboy, even if he is a *chan fag

http://normalboy.wtfux.org/audio/Dead%20Si...mp;%20Deeds.mp3

cr0m · June 3, 2008 05:12 AM

guys chanfags make cool shit too dont hate cool shit because they are chanfags

im not saying a lot of them arent gay as fuck however

ZekeySpaceyLizard · June 3, 2008 05:18 AM

^^^^^

sQueef · June 3, 2008 05:29 AM

ummm???

I didn't say I hated his stuff I said it was really cool, or at least thats what I implied when I said I loved normalboy. I like his music i've downloaded almost everything off his website. Even though he says things like "special thanks to #4chan friends of /b/" etc.

just if you were implying that I hate anything remotely related to *chan

im not as hateful of *chans as f0d, rtil, taylor, etc. I just don't like "lol shoop da whoop interbutts 9000" shit especially if thats the only thing you can say.

cr0m · June 3, 2008 05:33 AM

na i was just sayin since it was remotely related!

sQueef · June 3, 2008 05:45 AM

alrite then jus checkin

rtil · June 3, 2008 05:46 AM

Quote from: Squeefim not as hateful of *chans as rtil

nice! like you would know.

there are 3 things about 4chan i don't like: the 'memes', the subculture, and the people who practice it. i think anyone here would be disgusted by someone chanting about mudkips in front of a scientology building. this basically encapsules the stupidity of anything 4chan related, and i hope no one here encourages it, especially only for the sake of disagreeing with me - which is super cool btw !

sQueef · June 3, 2008 05:48 AM

whatever dick i just included you cuz I always see you jump over 4chan shit like f0d does damn

fucken azz