03-11-2011, 09:34 PM
Thanks for an interesting post Andrew!
There's some info about 'numbers stations' at this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station
Seems a peculiarly old-fashioned and overt way to pass encoded data in the age of internet. I guess the assumption is that they're involved in espionage. I wonder if anyone has tried to decode the messages - the Americans for example, but then it might well be they who are sending them! Great to listen to if you can't get off to sleep - ten minutes and you're in the land of nod
I recently found some QSL cards cards I received when I sent ISWL listener reports to broadcast stations in the late 1950s in my teens as a Short Wave Listener (before I discovered girls!).
There's some info about 'numbers stations' at this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station
Seems a peculiarly old-fashioned and overt way to pass encoded data in the age of internet. I guess the assumption is that they're involved in espionage. I wonder if anyone has tried to decode the messages - the Americans for example, but then it might well be they who are sending them! Great to listen to if you can't get off to sleep - ten minutes and you're in the land of nod
I recently found some QSL cards cards I received when I sent ISWL listener reports to broadcast stations in the late 1950s in my teens as a Short Wave Listener (before I discovered girls!).
Regards, David.
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'I'm in my own little world, but I'm happy, and they know me here'