{"id":30813,"date":"2018-02-10T08:55:19","date_gmt":"2018-02-10T12:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=30813"},"modified":"2018-02-10T08:55:19","modified_gmt":"2018-02-10T12:55:19","slug":"bbc-video-the-spy-radio-that-anyone-can-hear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/bbc-video-the-spy-radio-that-anyone-can-hear\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC video: &#8220;The &#8216;spy radio&#8217; that anyone can hear&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/SWLingPost-Spy-Numbers-Station.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10796\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/SWLingPost-Spy-Numbers-Station.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/SWLingPost-Spy-Numbers-Station.jpg 640w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/SWLingPost-Spy-Numbers-Station-300x146.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Mark Hirst, who writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nothing that an SWLing Post reader doesn\u2019t already know&#8211;more for general consumption:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/av\/world-42819704\/numbers-stations-the-spy-radio-that-anyone-can-hear\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/av\/world-42819704\/numbers-stations-the-spy-radio-that-anyone-can-hear<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/av\/embed\/p05xmb55\/42819704\" width=\"400\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For decades, people around the globe have been able to listen in to mysterious spy broadcasts from all over the world with just a radio.<\/p>\n<p>Gordon Corera has been investigating the strange world of number stations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/av\/world-42819704\/numbers-stations-the-spy-radio-that-anyone-can-hear\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Video produced by James Reevell<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks for the tip, Mark!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Mark Hirst, who writes: Nothing that an SWLing Post reader doesn\u2019t already know&#8211;more for general consumption: http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/av\/world-42819704\/numbers-stations-the-spy-radio-that-anyone-can-hear For decades, people around the globe have been able to listen in to mysterious spy broadcasts from all over the world with just a radio. Gordon Corera has been investigating the strange [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,172,43],"tags":[104,5458,4088,445,1680,4093],"class_list":["post-30813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-numbers-stations","category-shortwave-radio","tag-bbc","tag-mark-hirst","tag-numbers-stations","tag-spy-numbers","tag-spy-numbers-station","tag-videos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-80Z","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15374,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/hackaday-secret-radio-stations-by-the-numbers\/","url_meta":{"origin":30813,"position":0},"title":"Hackaday: &#8220;Secret Radio Stations by the Numbers&#8221;","author":"Thomas","date":"October 31, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: Hackaday via Andrea Borgnino) One thing has stayed with the James Bond movie franchise through the decades: Mr. Bond always has the most wonderful of gadgets. 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If you're unfamiliar with numbers stations check out our previous post on the subject--and be sure to listen to David Goren's production, \"Seis Siete Tres Siete Cero\". Along with pirate radio\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Articles&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Articles","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/articles\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/grimetonbandw-225x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":10770,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/numbers-stations-featured-in-highbrow-magazine\/","url_meta":{"origin":30813,"position":2},"title":"Numbers stations featured in Highbrow Magazine","author":"Thomas","date":"September 9, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to\u00a0SWLing Post reader, Richard Cuff, who shares this link to a numbers station piece in Highbrow Magazine; one of the more comprehensive numbers station articles I've read in a while. 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