An odd combination of mysterious, ominous, and boring as fuck.

Back around 2012ish, Digg.com had an article that was titled something like “Did we just find a secret MI5 number station?” I think this was a little after Black Ops 1 came out, so naturally I was super interested.

The article had a phone number. You call it, it played a short simple tune, a British guy said a string of numbers and nato phonetic letters, it played the tune again, and it was over. I called it again days later and it played the tune again but the guy said something like “please switch to channel alpha juliet echo romeo nine” then it played the tune again and was done. I think he might have even mentioned something about that channel being comprised, but I might be misremembering.

Super interesting all-in-all. Thanks, Digg.

If they are still going it’s just become a psyop.

Have your enemies waste resources while spreading fear.

Achtung

Achtung

I remember back when I found the Conet project CD boxset uploaded on the internet when I was into number stations.

It is a collection of number station recordings, released to try and get attention and focus people’s efforts to find and decode these signals.

A subtype of number stations are polytone stations, they broadcast tones that a computer can interpret into the message, so when you hear it, it is just what sounds like random tones played randomly at high speed.

The full recording also has a few more sections, there is often an identification string, like a peice of music to help agents tune in to the source, then there is a sync broadcast to have the computer figure out the timings, I have heard this as a rapid stacato tone signal.

Anyway, one of the most terrifying experiences I have had with media was when I was at a LAN party, I was playing OpenTTD with my friends in coop, while listening to the Conet project.

I get to a track that just starts with a slow droning rythm, I zone out from the sound and it is kinda nice with a slow, allmost meditative tempo in my headphones.

This goes on for minutes as I relax, then suddenly, the sound speeds up and a different stacato rythm starts.

And before I could react, my ears are filled with weird random beeps at a high speed.

I just ripped my headphones off my head as it sort of felt as if my brain was being reprogrammed, the long slow drone part felt as if it was made to soften my brain up, for the fast beeps to affect me.

I used to spend tons of time when I was a kid playing around with my dad’s shortwave radio.

I never heard a number’s station, but I did once come across a station playing a monophonic synth version of Waltzing Matilda over and over again. The atmosphere must have been super reflective that night if I was picking up Australia from the Midwestern U.S., so I don’t think whatever it was came from Australia. But I’ve never been able to explain it.

THE NUMBERS MASON, WHAT DO THEY MEAN

TIL about The Conet Project. Just in time for spooky season!

Relatable

At this point I’m so desperate for a woman to want to spend time with me I’d take it

/s but not really

Cool, I’ll get the vodka and pickles.

This shit again. Those numbers are nothing to worry about at all, they’re just meant for the Russian sleepers sitting in their apartments next to NATO military facilities, telling them to continue not setting off their hydrogen bombs. I don’t know why people worry about this.

The Conet Project

shivers down the spine at 48kHz

As a qualified amateur operator, I approve this course of action.

Jeez, you don’t need the gun. I would have come willingly if you’d mentioned the numbers stations. Watching some boring Netflix movie kinda sounded lame anyway. Here’s an edible, where are your headphones?