Numbers stations listening & discussion - I had to ask Null which forum was appropriate for this

[Manuel Noriega]

also there was a building near Palm Beach International that was super razor wired off and shit back in the day, near the dog track, story around town as I heard was that it was numbers or jamming cuba or both

This channel has a whole host of Floridian radio stuff - as well as from other states!

 

[Penis Drager 2.0]

Great idea for a thread, I got curious about them was the bit of them that was talked about in Fringe (great show). Did they have anything to do with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada_3301 I dont' think it was ever really found out what either of them were.

Cicada turned out to be a group of activists working on a dead-man switch for overseas journalists iirc.
Some of the "winners" came out and said the whole thing was really gay and didn't amount to anything.

 

[Manuel Noriega]

Another one found

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

I had no idea there were so many Cuban numbers stations. Thanks so much for posting these.

 

[Manuel Noriega]

I had no idea there were so many Cuban numbers stations. Thanks so much for posting these.

No problem!

 

[Fyrnite]

Welp, guess I'm back to recording some things. Sometime around 4:53PM my time, someone in the chatlog pointed out the frequency of 8190.0khz.

It's an SSTV, but it was in an unusual spot. It came in and out three times before completely ceasing around 4:58PM.

 

[Manuel Noriega]

Found some more

 

[Numbers Station]

(Sorry for format issues, I'm on mobile)

I'm glad to see there's a thread here to talk about these now, thank you @Hey Johnny Bravo for telling me about it!

I went down a crazy number station rabbit hole in 2015 and monitored sites like Priyom and numbersoddities.nl for recordings and schedules. This one has a bigger catalog for recordings people have caught over the years, mostly odd occurrences like pirate interference and tech failures, including a few that confirm that some of these are still being operated on windows xp. There's also recordings for stations Priyom doesn't have on their site.

I'll go through my hard drives and see how many recordings I still have. These were fun to follow in a creepy-cool type of fascination.

Another Web SDR I have used before was KiwiSDR, which Priyom had been linking to for upcoming scheduled number station broadcasts, but it seems like it's been since reformed into something less casual-friendly than the one linked here in the OP. This was great because if you knew where the transmitter was based, you could choose a receiver location on KiwiSDR to get a clearer signal.

Oh, here's a fun thing: like many stations during the Cold War, E03 "Lincolnshire Poacher" had a sister station. E03a "Cherry Ripe" followed the same format and was traced to the southern Pacific Ocean and had been shut down a year after Poacher.

All of my knowledge is on mostly defunct stations but I know some are still up and running.

 

[Manuel Noriega]

Great to see this thread back up and running. It's really fantastic.

 

[Numbers Station]

E13 "Five Dashes" also had a sister station based in Germany. These stations were only active until the fall of the Berlin Wall.

This is interesting to note, because the same woman voiced the numbers associated with later allegedly US Intelligence based stations.

 

[Manuel Noriega]

 

[botrix_fan]

Ringway Manchester uploaded a segment about numbers stations from a 90s British TV news magazine

Interesting implication that the spooks encouraged the producers to play it goofy instead of doing a serious story.

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

Ringway Manchester uploaded a segment about numbers stations from a 90s British TV news magazine

Interesting implication that the spooks encouraged the producers to play it goofy instead of doing a serious story.

Probably because the super serious stuff is bad for recruitment. You catch more nerds with fun than you do with stressful work environments.