On 08 Jan 2019, StackFault said the following...

Hey!

Some may already have heard of those numbers stations very popular in the late 60s and 70s. Shortwave stations calling numbers all day long, soppusedly to send messages to spies in foreign nations they could deciphers using OTP...

I know there were still some still active 10 years ago or so, not sure about now...

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I was thinking about the Russian UVB-76 "The Buzzer" which is still broadcasting on 4.625 MC and has been since the 1980's.

I was thinking that it would be possible to send a slow data
communications in the buzzing tones similar to a Commodore Cassette format, with about the same data speed.
When you listen to a Commodore program on tape the data just sounds like buzzing unless a number of the same ASCII characters are repeated. With encryption used the data would sound random.
A Commodore .SEQ file which is much the same as a .TXT file sounds like as series of buzzes and inter-block tones.
There have been a number of people that have monitored it and sometimes
there's a voice that come on with a brief code but otherwise it's just
buzzing.
Kind of a long shot but it's possible.
A simple program on the receiving end that captured the audio and pieced it back together as a file, and the file sent twice for error checking.

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I was thinking about the Russian UVB-76 "The Buzzer" which is still broadcasting on 4.625 MC and has been since the 1980's.

Yeah, there are many of those "interesting" broadcasts. Some are harder to receive in North America with current propagation conditions but still can be heard using SDRs available on the Internet.

Cheers!

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I was thinking about the Russian UVB-76 "The Buzzer" which is still broadcasting on 4.625 MC and has been since the 1980's.

Yeah, there are many of those "interesting" broadcasts. Some are harder
to receive in North America with current propagation conditions but
still can be heard using SDRs available on the Internet.

Cheers!

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I really have to get back into DXing shortwave. The last time was close to 10 years ago with a 1946 Hallicrafters S-38. All I have to do is put up another antenna. Around that time I was able to pick up a few of the numbers stations faintly here in BC.

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multiplemiggs wrote to StackFault <=-

I really have to get back into DXing shortwave. The last time was close
to 10 years ago with a 1946 Hallicrafters S-38. All I have to do is put
up another antenna. Around that time I was able to pick up a few of the numbers stations faintly here in BC.

I have a cheap analog Sony shortwave and a roll-up wire antenna; I think because of the powerline adapters I'm using for my network, I get a lot of line noise when I try to DX. I should try unplugging them all and seeing if the noise goes away.

I bought a CD from the Conet project a few years back, 2 CDs worth of number station recordings. I should put it up on my shoutcast stream and see who listens.



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I know there were still some still active 10 years ago or so, not sur about now...

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Some may already have heard of those numbers stations very popular in late 60s and 70s. Shortwave stations calling numbers all day long, soppusedly to send messages to spies in foreign nations they could deciphers using OTP...

I love recording loops of numbers stations an, buzzers, beepers, and all
kinds of wierd stuff via SDR ..

In fact i have gigabytes of recordings which i just tweak with the audio
+ slice'n'dice , and record a bar or two from my record/cd /cassette collectin , . oh wait a second

That's what Autechre/boards of canada does ..oooopz

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djatropine wrote to multiplemiggs <=-

I love recording loops of numbers stations an, buzzers, beepers, and
all kinds of wierd stuff via SDR ..

I bought a CD called the Conet Project that's a ton of numbers stations, I sometimes put it on the BBS' shoutcast station.

That's what Autechre/boards of canada does ..oooopz

Love them both - now playing Nil by Autechre.


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I have a cheap analog Sony shortwave and a roll-up wire antenna; I think because of the powerline adapters I'm using for my network, I get a lot
of line noise when I try to DX. I should try unplugging them all and seeing if the noise goes away.
I bought a CD from the Conet project a few years back, 2 CDs worth of number station recordings. I should put it up on my shoutcast stream and see who listens.

I have a el-cheapo short wave radio i bought for $10 on amazon. I also bought
2 metal slinkys and combined them together and strung them across my attic space. i have red copper wire coming down from that attic with an aligator
clip for the attena. i have it for just incase things really fall apart.

Thanks
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gcubebuddy wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

bought 2 metal slinkys and combined them together and strung them
across my attic space. i have red copper wire coming down from that
attic with an aligator clip for the attena. i have it for just incase things really fall apart.

I'm loving the slinky idea. How well does it work?


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On 09 Sep 2021, gcubebuddy said the following...

I have a cheap analog Sony shortwave and a roll-up wire antenna; I th

I have a el-cheapo short wave radio i bought for $10 on amazon. I also bought 2 metal slinkys and combined them together and strung them across

Useful if you can also receive ham radio, and local line-of-sight communications.

Haveing a way to pull a recording is helpful.

If you can put your receiver someplace away from your actual location, you
gain separation if RX-RDFing starts. (If people are told they can only
listen to "approved" transmissions or that they cann't listen at all.)

Covert Listening is a huge part of Covert Communications.

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