A Neat Look At The History And Practice Of Numbers Stations
A neat bit of clandestine operations history and something that’s still very, very relevant. Patriotman did a write up some time back regarding how they work and I teach an in-depth module on it in the Advanced RTO Course, along with using Trigrams to add a second layer of encryption making the code truly unbreakable.
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Lmao.
Here, take this secret message. And when you are done chew on this Cyanide errr… I mean regular, perfectly normal Chewing Gum immediately.
Grateful to have learned about this in RTO Advanced class. Nice video. Not sure what’s funny about it JP.
I’m not eating anything a random person hands me on a mission.
Especially considering that most of these stations are in Red controlled territory.
I’d like to get a shortwave and tune into some of these.
For years, I heard about The Russian Woodpecker transmitter and how it annoyed Hams. A couple years ago, this German nuclear student went into Pripyat and visited the site of the transmitter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l_4fzJv_i0 Bionerd climbs the actual antenna.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-UXWh4Rj_E Bionerd sneaks into the control building for the antenna.
I remember that. You can still hear it. It’s most likely a propagation beacon for the Russian HF nets since they have such a large land mass spreading over many, many timezones.
IIRC, Wasn’t that an OTH radar?
That was the ‘common knowledge’ thinking, but this was incorrect. It was a propagation beacon that could be reverted to a voice net in case of nuclear attack. There was an incident where voices were actually heard on it.