Comments on: Number Stations

By: Foozwah

Foozwah — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 01:45:07 +0000

[quote]sirfalas said: “I should have posted this comment a long time ago but I just registered and I hope someone reads this.

I downloaded one of the samples and the filename is tcp_d1_13_new_star_broadcasting_irdial.mp3

I kept playing it and then I kept hearing something very familiar. I kept continuing and then I realized something. There is a person speaking in Chinese in the message. She (the person sounds like a female) first speaks something which I can’t decipher because I am not chinese and I only know very basic chinese.

Anyway, from the 4:44 mark of the sound, she starts reciting numbers in chinese in groups of 4. For example, forward to 4:57, you will hear the words ‘Chi Liow Sun Er’ which means ‘7632′. For a reference, see below

Numeral Chinese Pronounciation

1 (Eee)

*rest of numbers snipped for brevity*

My pronunciations may not be accurate but you get the idea. You should be able to decipher the other numbers. But what I think is, either the spies somehow transmitted codes in chinese or it was some random waves caught up somewhere.”[/quote]

You’re absolutely right that it’s Chinese, but you could have saved yourself some trouble if you’d also downloaded the accompanying PDF document from the Irdial site about the Conet Project, where you grabbed that mp3 from.

On page 47 it identifies that sample as being from, “One of the few Chinese language stations, operated by Taiwanese Intelligence. Poor reception in Europe, on 8300.”

By: lizdini

lizdini — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 06:04:20 +0000

oh, and I was thinking, could it be police bands? Listing codes for dispatch?

By: lizdini

lizdini — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 06:03:25 +0000

Has anyone ever heard of the broadcasts being heard on the phone? I work in a call center and once after the caller hung up a woman’s voice came on saying a string of numbers in a robotic monotone. I didn’t think to write down exactly what she said. It certainly creeped me out, though.

By: Undershaft

Undershaft — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:33:47 +0000

This is pretty wild. I think it’s a combination of many factors. Some number stations are government related, some are organized crime/smugglers, some are HAM enthusiasts having a spot of fun. I’ll have to hook up my old GE vacuum tube radio from the forties and see if I can pick these up!

By: ulzha

ulzha — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 21:34:10 +0000

DFI. I read this article a few days ago. Now today I remembered that in a party once someone intrigued us with a strange SMS she had received from an unknown person. It was numbers in series of 5. Back then we just thought of a prank like sending similar dummy numbers in response, for good laugh.

By: mumified

mumified — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:58:35 +0000

I want to say that on the fourth disk, the track named “tcp_d4_2_yt_irdial.mp3″ is Yugoslavian, or in any other case Croatian or Serbian. I live in Croatia and I can recognize the numbers very well, although very unclear.

here is what I have heard from the transmission:
92,
3,
grupa (translates as Group),
1,
5

And then begins

0 0 0 0 2,
204? 0 4 5,
1 4 0 4 5,
33? 5 7 0,
8 6 3 4 9,
5 1 4 1 4,
1 5 4 3 7,
7 0 5 6 9,
3 4 5 2 0,
5 6 0 4 0,
7 3 7 ? ?,
6 5 7 2 2,
4 0 4 29?,
7 403? 9 3,
3 5 7 4 5,
3 3 8 9 6.
{sme noises like morse code and then end transmission}

I reckon that each line had 5 onedigit numbers but there are a few of them who have 2 or 3 digits. But I hate listening to these… All those distorted sounds give me chills…

By: krstguy

krstguy — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 03:28:02 +0000

I have heard some type of transmission tonight over a dozen times on my computer speakers, my husband has heard the same transmission on his computer at work, they seem to be happening alot more frequetnly. I have even heard the same one over the TV and in the radio of my car. I listened to tons of samples on this site, and some sound some what like what I am hearing, but not exact. It is really weird. I started searching this out and came across this site. I am glad to see that I am not crazy and that there may be an explanation for this, but why so often tonight? I live in TX…and it is funny how it is always the same one and at all times of the day.

By: borisbadenov

borisbadenov — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 00:16:00 +0000

I heard them myself, growing up in Southern California. I was interested in solar energy and my parents got me a solar radio kit for my birthday. When I put the thing together, all I got was a lady reciting a series of long numbers, punctuated by the words, “Radio please, Orange County.”

It’s not what anyone would have expected.
I figured I had goofed in putting the kit together. Trying different things, I turned the diode around and got commercial radio. Go figure. About a week later, I turned it back around and got nothing.
This was in 1962. Probably no drug smugglers doing this back then.