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Steve -- After listening to the recording, I think it might easily be a test broadcast, for whatever reason, "mimicking" a numbers station. It might be clandestine or classified in nature, but I like my hoaxes to work a little harder than what I heard in the recording... However it occurs to me that it might be a Yosemite Sam variant. (Technicians setting up a station for other classified use, creating a one-off recording that's distinct enough to recognize and measure power, etc) -- sort of an impromptu "test beacon". I can't make a lot out, but "UNO" seems to be repeated excessively, possibly because its distinct enough to recognize if you're listening for it, specifically under weak conditions. I would think a "real" numbers station would attempt better enunciation of the numbers. I've heard some pretty awful hum and disruptive engineering with V2 but never quite that bad ;-) >From what I can gather, true Enigma stations are heard by multiple regions and multiple parties before they're called true spynumbers stations, I think a level of consistency is expected, before they get classified as true spy numbers stations. Anyway -- for validating a spy numbers catch on your own: Spynumbers.com has a pretty serious wealth of current schedules, loggings and soundbites of known broadcast regions. I don't have a link handy, but you can also google for the CONET project which now has a lovely archive.orgrepository of most of the historically known numbers stations, even those now retired. I wouldn't be ready to call the broadcast a hoax, per se, because I don't think it was attempting to fool anyone. I think it was likely trying to blend in with myriad other weirdness on HF ;) I would stress here that the operator will likely never confirm nor deny, nor do actual number stations, and my thoughts here are pure conjecture. :) Either way, Keith, this was a pretty cool catch! -- corq On Sep 26, 2011 9:17 AM, "Steve" <[email protected]> wrote: ______________________________________________________________ Spooks mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
