Trippy story about 'numbers stations'

[Carson]

I came across a story on Fark about 'numbers stations'. It's like an old form of encryption from the Cold War era that seems sort of relevant again. ?

They have a recording of it at the link you can listen to. The "Swedish rhapsody" is pretty catchy and sort of says it all.


http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-24910397



If your not getting enough comments here, Fark will have a few;

http://www.fark.com/comments/8227412/If-you-ever-owned-a-shortwave-radio-back-during-Cold-War-you-probably-remember-those-creepy-Number-Stations-where-a-child-womans-voice-would-utter-random-numbers-presumably-code-for-field-agents-FARK-Theyre-still-on-air

[CPUd]

They got popular again back when Lost was on. For a few episodes they thought they were picking up a signal from one. A show right now called The Americans, sometimes they get messages from a numbers station.

[Carson]

They got popular again back when Lost was on. For a few episodes they thought they were picking up a signal from one. A show right now called The Americans, sometimes they get messages from a numbers station.

It's been a long time since I've listened to anything on the airwaves...well I guess my car radio counts.

When I was a kid we had an old radio that would pick up all kinds of things. I don't ever remember hearing of any thing called Number Stations. The closet I guess I will ever come to it now was the recording on the link above.

It had the taste of freedom about it.

[Occam's Banana]

John Cusack starred in a 2013 movie set in a numbers station, called (appropriately enough) The Numbers Station: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1659338/

And IIRC, a numbers station and numbers-station broadcasts also featured in some of the episodes of the TV series Fringe.

[tangent4ronpaul]

lots of resources on them here;

http://www.spynumbers.com/

-t