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Shortwave radio in the news- Travel Gadgets: Shortwave radio is the way to go - Times LIVE May 17, 2012
- Tamil Gov't Starts Radio Broadcast to Sri Lanka on May 18th - 3rd Anniversary ... - EIN News (press release) May 16, 2012
- Templeton Award to the Dalai Lama - Voice of America May 16, 2012
- Shortwave Gathering Identifies Broadcast Opportunities - Radio World May 15, 2012
- Greenwich Boasts Historic Communications Feat - The Daily Greenwich May 15, 2012
- Gerry Jackson, founder, SW Radio Africa - The Guardian May 14, 2012
- In Zimbabwe's Media, It's All About Robert Mugabe - NPR May 13, 2012
- Zimbabwe exile shortwave station wants more information about license denial - Radio Survivor May 12, 2012
- Murrow Shortwave Site Rededicated - Radio World May 9, 2012
- Villagers treasure Shortwave radio - The Zimbabwean May 9, 2012
- RNW Media Network
- This is a searchable archive of over 15,000 international media stories published from Oct 2003 - March 2012
- Kenya: CCK to take back unused frequencies
- Rwanda: Parliament radio goes on air
- Radiofax audio archive to mark 20 years since closure
- Swaziland to ban anti-Mswati tweets
- Web address controversy deepens after US warning
- New company building a search engine for television
- EU willing to support Portuguese on Euronews
- Kenya to ban analogue TV imports
- Christian TV Network bosses accused of massive fraud
Category Archives: Numbers Stations
John Cusack to star in new movie: THE NUMBERS STATION
In the new movie, The Numbers Station, John Cusack will play a former black ops agent who is assigned to protect a code operator (Malin Ackerman) for an isolated covert CIA broadcast station–the two characters fight for survival after a surprise … Continue reading
New Batman teaser uses numbers stations concept
The new Batman film, The Dark Knight Rises, is using a strange numbers station concept to lure people into the theatre via their theatrical teaser. The numbers station-like audio is complete with eerie ident, simulated SSB, and hetrodyne sounds– evidence that … Continue reading
Russia Today features the Buzzer
(Source: RT) Read the full transcript on RT. Thanks to Kim Elliott for the tip!
Posted in Numbers Stations, Videos
Tagged Numbers Stations, RT, Russia Today, The Buzzer, Videos
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Estonian engineer drags UVB-76 numbers station into the Internet era
It seems there’s no shortage of interest in numbers stations these days. This article, from Wired magazine, Inside The Russian Short Wave Radio Enigma: From a lonely rusted tower in a forest north of Moscow, a mysterious shortwave radio station transmitted day and … Continue reading
Posted in Numbers Stations
Tagged Estonia, Numbers Stations, The Buzzer, UVB-76, UVB-76.net, Wired
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Besnard Lakes: A Canadian band inspired by shortwave radio
(Source: Madison.com) “Deciphered your lines from the shortwave,” Jace Lasek sings on “Like the Ocean, Like the Innocent,” the opening track off the Canadian crew’s latest album, “The Besnard Lakes are the Roaring Night” (Jagjaguwar). [...]Even as a child, Lasek … Continue reading
Archived BBC 4 documentary on Lincolnshire Poacher
A friend recently sent me this archive site of a BBC documentary from 2005 that tracks the Lincolnshire Poacher and other numbers stations. If you’re unfamiliar with numbers stations check out our previous post on the subject–and be sure to listen to David Goren’s … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Broadcasters, Numbers Stations
Tagged David Goren, Lincolnshire Poacher, Numbers Stations, Spy Numbers
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Russian Numbers Changing?
(Source: Gizmodo) The bizarre, constant audio output of one particular mysterious Russian “Numbers Station” has changed, for the first time in 20 years. This might mean something bad is about to happen, or simply that someone finally remembered to switch … Continue reading
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Tagged Numbers Stations, Russian Numbers Stations, Shortwave Numbers
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NPR Explores Numbers Stations
This weekend, NPR’s Guy Raz interviewed Mark Stout, the official historian at the International Spy Museum. Their topic? Numbers stations. Click hear to go to NPR’s webpage, listen and/or read the full transcript. You can also download an MP3 audio file … Continue reading
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Tagged National Public Radio, NPR, Numbers Stations, Shortwave Number Stations, Shortwave Radio
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Slate Magazine explores how Russian spies used shortwave radio
Slate: It may seem like the digital era of spy technology has passed the Russians by. In the Washington Post, columnist Jeff Stein tittered that “the FBI must have been clapping its collective hands when it discovered the primitive radio … Continue reading
Russian Agents Used Shortwave Radio to Receive Coded Messages
Many of you may have noticed in the news yesterday that shortwave radio was used by the 11 Russian agents who were carrying out espionage within the United States. An article in the New York Times noted that one of … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, News, Numbers Stations
Tagged Espionage, Numbers Stations, Russian Agents, Shortwave Radio
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