Hey

Last night I was tuning through the 6200-6955 area and I came across a
strange statio on 6507z around 0143z and lasting for several hours.
Basically what I heard at first was a Spanish woman saying something
like "this is radio..... (i couldn't make out what she was saying)
Then she said some other things and read off some numbers in English
806, 1220, 1252, 1622,1629, 1640, 2210, 2217, and 2231. She said "and"
after 2217. Then she ID "this is radio" and then a brief rough static
sound. This was repeated for atleast an hour.

Then......... I heard some talking between the spanish lady and a
spanish man for around 45 minutes before the repeating intro came on
again. I was busy at my computer and came back to the radio at around
0310z... and it's repeating over and over.

(RedOctober90) wrote in message . com...
Hey

Last night I was tuning through the 6200-6955 area and I came across a
strange statio on 6507z around 0143z and lasting for several hours.
Basically what I heard at first was a Spanish woman saying something
like "this is radio..... (i couldn't make out what she was saying)
Then she said some other things and read off some numbers in English
806, 1220, 1252, 1622,1629, 1640, 2210, 2217, and 2231. She said "and"
after 2217. Then she ID "this is radio" and then a brief rough static
sound. This was repeated for atleast an hour.

Then......... I heard some talking between the spanish lady and a
spanish man for around 45 minutes before the repeating intro came on
again. I was busy at my computer and came back to the radio at around
0310z... and it's repeating over and over.



Any ideas?

RedOctober90 wrote:

(RedOctober90) wrote in message . com...
Hey

Last night I was tuning through the 6200-6955 area and I came across a
strange statio on 6507z around 0143z and lasting for several hours.
Basically what I heard at first was a Spanish woman saying something
like "this is radio..... (i couldn't make out what she was saying)
Then she said some other things and read off some numbers in English
806, 1220, 1252, 1622,1629, 1640, 2210, 2217, and 2231. She said "and"
after 2217. Then she ID "this is radio" and then a brief rough static
sound. This was repeated for atleast an hour.

Then......... I heard some talking between the spanish lady and a
spanish man for around 45 minutes before the repeating intro came on
again. I was busy at my computer and came back to the radio at around
0310z... and it's repeating over and over.

Any ideas?

Sure. It's a numbers station.

Steve
Holland, MI

Drake R7, R8 and R8B

RedOctober90 wrote:

(RedOctober90) wrote in message . com...
Hey

Last night I was tuning through the 6200-6955 area and I came across a
strange statio on 6507z around 0143z and lasting for several hours.
Basically what I heard at first was a Spanish woman saying something
like "this is radio..... (i couldn't make out what she was saying)
Then she said some other things and read off some numbers in English
806, 1220, 1252, 1622,1629, 1640, 2210, 2217, and 2231. She said "and"
after 2217. Then she ID "this is radio" and then a brief rough static
sound. This was repeated for atleast an hour.

Then......... I heard some talking between the spanish lady and a
spanish man for around 45 minutes before the repeating intro came on
again. I was busy at my computer and came back to the radio at around
0310z... and it's repeating over and over.

Any ideas?



For what these are worth - and it probably isn't much:


Certainly some kind of code system. The broadcasters may be part of a
simple communications experiment, or they may be up to deviltry of some
kind, and the numbers are a "message". Or maybe something entirely
different. It could be transmission/reception trials for a future
broadcasting station of some kind.


I read an article not long ago written by an elderly man who was
11-14 during WWII. He was a "prodigy" at short wave, and a friend of
his father's
worked for the War Department in cryptology. The young man knew that
Nazi's were in Mexico in various places, and he had heard that they
sometimes communicated in such a way. He was able to do some
triangulation or something of the sort, and he was certain that those
types of broadcasts he was hearing (exactly like what you heard) were
coming form Mexico, and he passed that info on to his father's friend,
whom he said "just smiled and winked at me". He went on to say that
long after the war, he found out that it was indeed a way foreign
operatives in the US kept in touch with other foreign operatives in
Mexico. And all this is strictly "for what it's worth".

Tony


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N8KDV wrote:

RedOctober90 wrote:

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Hey

Last night I was tuning through the 6200-6955 area and I came across a
strange statio on 6507z around 0143z and lasting for several hours.
Basically what I heard at first was a Spanish woman saying something
like "this is radio..... (i couldn't make out what she was saying)
Then she said some other things and read off some numbers in English
806, 1220, 1252, 1622,1629, 1640, 2210, 2217, and 2231. She said "and"
after 2217. Then she ID "this is radio" and then a brief rough static
sound. This was repeated for atleast an hour.

Then......... I heard some talking between the spanish lady and a
spanish man for around 45 minutes before the repeating intro came on
again. I was busy at my computer and came back to the radio at around
0310z... and it's repeating over and over.

Any ideas?

Sure. It's a numbers station.

6507 may also be a maritime coast station frequency, so that may have something to do with it as well.



Steve
Holland, MI

Drake R7, R8 and R8B

I had no sooner sent that post than I remembered a similar experience
in my own listening.

One summer day, 20 years ago, I got quite clearly on the cheap SW I
was using at that time, a transmission between two men. The "first" man
spoke with a soft Texas drawl, and the "second" man sounded like an
urban African-American. The first man slowly and clearly spoke a series
of numbers, then the second man repeated them equally clearly. First
man again spoke a series of numbers, finishing with the word "End". The
second man repeated them, finishing with the words "End. Got it!" The
first man replied "OK, buddy!" and the transmission ended right there
(return to background hiss). I asked a shortwave maven at the time what
he thought it was, and he offhandedly replied: "That's the Army".

And again - for what it's worth.

Tony


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Tony Meloche wrote:

I had no sooner sent that post than I remembered a similar experience
in my own listening.

One summer day, 20 years ago, I got quite clearly on the cheap SW I
was using at that time, a transmission between two men. The "first" man
spoke with a soft Texas drawl, and the "second" man sounded like an
urban African-American. The first man slowly and clearly spoke a series
of numbers, then the second man repeated them equally clearly. First
man again spoke a series of numbers, finishing with the word "End". The
second man repeated them, finishing with the words "End. Got it!" The
first man replied "OK, buddy!" and the transmission ended right there
(return to background hiss). I asked a shortwave maven at the time what
he thought it was, and he offhandedly replied: "That's the Army".

And again - for what it's worth.

Maybe it's a military broadcast from South of the Border. The US
military today uses vastly more complex encryption than was possible in
1983, but it's possible that a less advanced army-maybe Mexico or
Colombia-is still using outdated encoding.

Tony Meloche wrote in message ...
RedOctober90 wrote:

(RedOctober90) wrote in message . com...
Hey

Last night I was tuning through the 6200-6955 area and I came across a
strange statio on 6507z around 0143z and lasting for several hours.
Basically what I heard at first was a Spanish woman saying something
like "this is radio..... (i couldn't make out what she was saying)
Then she said some other things and read off some numbers in English
806, 1220, 1252, 1622,1629, 1640, 2210, 2217, and 2231. She said "and"
after 2217. Then she ID "this is radio" and then a brief rough static
sound. This was repeated for atleast an hour.

Then......... I heard some talking between the spanish lady and a
spanish man for around 45 minutes before the repeating intro came on
again. I was busy at my computer and came back to the radio at around
0310z... and it's repeating over and over.

Any ideas?



For what these are worth - and it probably isn't much:


Certainly some kind of code system. The broadcasters may be part of a
simple communications experiment, or they may be up to deviltry of some
kind, and the numbers are a "message". Or maybe something entirely
different. It could be transmission/reception trials for a future
broadcasting station of some kind.


I read an article not long ago written by an elderly man who was
11-14 during WWII. He was a "prodigy" at short wave, and a friend of
his father's
worked for the War Department in cryptology. The young man knew that
Nazi's were in Mexico in various places, and he had heard that they
sometimes communicated in such a way. He was able to do some
triangulation or something of the sort, and he was certain that those
types of broadcasts he was hearing (exactly like what you heard) were
coming form Mexico, and he passed that info on to his father's friend,
whom he said "just smiled and winked at me". He went on to say that
long after the war, he found out that it was indeed a way foreign
operatives in the US kept in touch with other foreign operatives in
Mexico. And all this is strictly "for what it's worth".

Tony


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This frequency range is known for wierd transmissions, what was odd
was the period where the woman apparently seemed to be talking to some
guy in Spanish. What also was odd is that the station ID itself "this
is radio.........." I couldn't make out what the station name was.

i've heard it.... just now , but it's an ID in english and greek
bye claudio


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Hey

Last night I was tuning through the 6200-6955 area and I came across a
strange statio on 6507z around 0143z and lasting for several hours.
Basically what I heard at first was a Spanish woman saying something
like "this is radio..... (i couldn't make out what she was saying)
Then she said some other things and read off some numbers in English
806, 1220, 1252, 1622,1629, 1640, 2210, 2217, and 2231. She said "and"
after 2217. Then she ID "this is radio" and then a brief rough static
sound. This was repeated for atleast an hour.

Then......... I heard some talking between the spanish lady and a
spanish man for around 45 minutes before the repeating intro came on
again. I was busy at my computer and came back to the radio at around
0310z... and it's repeating over and over.

"RedOctober90" wrote in message
om...
Hey

Last night I was tuning through the 6200-6955 area and I came across a
strange statio on 6507z around 0143z and lasting for several hours.
Basically what I heard at first was a Spanish woman saying something
like "this is radio..... (i couldn't make out what she was saying)
Then she said some other things and read off some numbers in English
806, 1220, 1252, 1622,1629, 1640, 2210, 2217, and 2231. She said "and"
after 2217. Then she ID "this is radio" and then a brief rough static
sound. This was repeated for atleast an hour.

Sounds like a voice mirror. The numbers given are maritime channel numbers.
It's used as a marker for whatever station that was. The CFL says that
Athens Radio uses quite a few of the above mentioned channels, so I'm
willing to bet that's who it was.

--
Tom Sevart N2UHC
Frontenac, KS

http://www.geocities.com/n2uhc