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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NC Scout is the nom de guerre of a former Infantry Scout and Sergeant in one of the Army’s best Reconnaissance Units. He has combat tours in both Iraq and Afghanistan. He teaches a series of courses focusing on small unit skills rarely if ever taught anywhere else in the prepping and survival field, including his RTO Course which focuses on small unit communications. In his free time he is an avid hunter, bushcrafter, writer, long range shooter, prepper, amateur radio operator and Libertarian activist. He can be contacted at [email protected] or via his blog at brushbeater.wordpress.com .

7 Comments

  1. Johnny Paratrooper October 15, 2020 at 19:00

    Lmao.
    Here, take this secret message. And when you are done chew on this Cyanide errr… I mean regular, perfectly normal Chewing Gum immediately.

  2. DVM October 15, 2020 at 21:39

    Grateful to have learned about this in RTO Advanced class. Nice video. Not sure what’s funny about it JP.

    • Johnny Paratrooper October 16, 2020 at 09:07

      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.

  3. Curious Passerby October 16, 2020 at 19:06

    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.

    • NC Scout October 16, 2020 at 20:25

      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.

    • BePrepared October 19, 2020 at 10:28

      IIRC, Wasn’t that an OTH radar?

      • NC Scout October 19, 2020 at 10:32

        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.

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