NEW links, fresh for 2007, or something:
Really good blog, regularly updated with good recordings:
http://hfsurfing.blogspot.com/2007/03/e25.html
A good site, with info and recordings:
http://www.angelfire.com/rebellion2/sw_underground1/
Lots of good download stuff here:
http://home.luna.nl/~ary/
The original post:
Is anyone picking any of these stations up lately? I've had a couple, I'd like to hear of others.
For more than 30 years the Shortwave radio spectrum has been used by the worlds intelligence agencies to transmit secret messages. These messages are transmitted by hundreds of “Numbers Stations"...
...Why is it that in over 30 years, the phenomenon of Numbers Stations has gone almost totally unreported? What are the agencies behind the Numbers Stations, and why are the eastern European stations still on the air? Why does the Czech republic operate a Numbers Station 24 hours a day? How is it that Numbers Stations are allowed to interfere with essential radio services like air traffic control and shipping without having to answer to anybody? Why does the “Swedish Rhapsody” Numbers Station use a small girls voice?
Have some links, free of charge.
this is a ten minute film that introduces short wave radio and number stations.
There's a wealth of info here:
Number Stations
The Conet Project is sa compilation of these broadcasts available on CD.
Here's a Radio 4 documentary from 2005 about these things. It's called 'Tracking The Lincolnshire Poacher', which is one of the more well-known Number Stations.
It's a bit worrying, to be honest, but well worth a listen, so click here.
And here's photos of the
Lincolnshire Poacher's transmission site
This site is a database of what's going on with number stations, and it even has a facility to show what stations should be active both now or in the next hour, which is very cool. Lots of US references, so suitable for many board members, I think.
Spy Numbers Station Database