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Numbers stations are shortwave radio stations of uncertain origin. They generally broadcast voices reading streams of numbers, words, letters (sometimes using a phonetic alphabet), tunes or morse code.

The voices that can be heard on these stations are often mechanically generated. They are in a wide variety of languages, and the voices are usually women's, though sometimes men's or children's voices are used.

Evidence supports popular assumptions that the broadcasts are channels of communication used to send messages to spies. This has not been publicly acknowledged by any government that may operate a numbers station, but in one case, Cuban numbers station espionage has been publicly prosecuted in a United States federal court.[1]

Numbers stations appear and disappear over time (although some follow regular schedules), and their overall activity has increased slightly since the early 1990s. This increase suggests that as spy-related phenomena, they were not unique to the Cold War.

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I came across one of these in Alabama back in the late 1980's. It was a synthesised phonetic voice counting down. (it was at 2 days, several hours, several minutes etc etc when we heard it).

I assumed it was an advert for a radio station launch, though I didn't stay around to find out.

As far as I am aware, Alabama still exists, so it couldn't have been THAT bad, WHATEVER it was counting down to.

I doubt it would be for spies... it is VERY easy to locate a radio transmitter.

Wasn't there something called the "Russian Woodpecker" back in the early 80's ? A radio station inside the Soviet Union broadcasting a series of 'clicking' noises ?

Meow Purr.

Hah, finally something I know something about!

Ok, those number stations were operated by several secret services and most used a two number code. on that corresponded, for example, to a page and a second one that corresponded to a word. The Russians for a time had a third number that would correspond to a paragraph.

The "receiver"of the message was instructed to buy a certain book or newspaper and receiving the message's number to find the corresponding words. This is how Stasi, KGB and you name it, transmitted the instructions to their spies. Do to the incredible amount of posibble books these codes were as good as unbreakable.

Now, the wood-pecker. That was an attempt to build a short-wave radar. If the Russians would have succeeded they could have looked into the airspace of virtually every country of the world. From what we know they did not.

Well that solves this one ! Thanks for the Posts.

Perhaps we are picking up waves from somewhere other then spies? Are not number and sound(number) the universal language? Binary? How are we certain it's not our own evolution we're hearing? I think it might be... as we'll never get to witness for 'ourselves' if it's spy or not... as 'they' would then be spy signals and I doubt they'd be so plane as day for us to hear? I dunno - just my 2cents on it.

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070823_huge_hole.html

This article alone is worth our conversation here.