17 February 2005
Simon Mason, numbers stations expert
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|If you have ever tuned a radio beyond the medium wave band, you will have entered the weird and wonderful world of short wave. You will hear many strange transmissions, such as ranting American evangelists warning you that the end of the world is near, people trying to sell you gold and silver before the economic collapse (SHOULD HAVE BOUGHT SOME!), jammed clandestine radio broadcasts from Iraq, aircraft flying over the Arctic, barely understandable Scots fisherman on their trawlers and many other bizarre sounds.
Perhaps the strangest of all transmissions are the “Spy Number Stations”. These do not officially exist and no one has ever explained what the purpose of these stations is. They consist of the most boring content imaginable. A strange non-human voice reading out series of numbers, sometimes accompanied by weird tones or odd melodies.
Some Americans even use them as background music at intellectual dinner parties and they even turned up in the film "Vanilla Sky". On this site you can read my book on this subject; “Secret Signals”, as well as explore articles and sound clips from the height of the Cold War era.|
|If you have ever tuned a radio beyond the medium wave band, you will have entered the weird and wonderful world of short wave. You will hear many strange transmissions, such as ranting American evangelists warning you that the end of the world is near, people trying to sell you gold and silver before the economic collapse (SHOULD HAVE BOUGHT SOME!), jammed clandestine radio broadcasts from Iraq, aircraft flying over the Arctic, barely understandable Scots fisherman on their trawlers and many other bizarre sounds.
Perhaps the strangest of all transmissions are the “Spy Number Stations”. These do not officially exist and no one has ever explained what the purpose of these stations is. They consist of the most boring content imaginable. A strange non-human voice reading out series of numbers, sometimes accompanied by weird tones or odd melodies.
Some Americans even use them as background music at intellectual dinner parties and they even turned up in the film "Vanilla Sky". On this site you can read my book on this subject; “Secret Signals”, as well as explore articles and sound clips from the height of the Cold War era.|
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