{"id":33180,"date":"2018-07-14T06:57:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-14T10:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=33180"},"modified":"2018-07-14T06:57:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-14T10:57:00","slug":"numbers-station-in-a-netflix-series-the-same-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/numbers-station-in-a-netflix-series-the-same-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"Numbers station in a Netflix series &#8220;The Same Sky&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/The-Same-Sky-Screenshot-Numbers-Station.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33181\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/The-Same-Sky-Screenshot-Numbers-Station.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"956\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/The-Same-Sky-Screenshot-Numbers-Station.jpeg 956w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/The-Same-Sky-Screenshot-Numbers-Station-300x154.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/The-Same-Sky-Screenshot-Numbers-Station-768x394.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/The-Same-Sky-Screenshot-Numbers-Station-624x320.jpeg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 956px) 100vw, 956px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, <a href=\"https:\/\/ae5x.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Harper (AE5X)<\/a>, who writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I don&#8217;t know if you&#8217;ve heard of a new series on Netflix &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt5424556\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;The Same Sky&#8221;<\/a> is a Cold War spy series regarding an attempt to gain access to an American eavesdropping facility in Berlin in the 1970&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Not a lot of radio-related activity in the series but there is a scene of a spy receiving his coded instructions via a numbers station. I&#8217;ve posted a YouTube video of the scene here:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KqyIqn926eM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?time_continue=45&amp;v=KqyIqn926eM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to view on YouTube.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thank you, John! I&#8217;ve just added <em>The Same Sky<\/em> to my watch list&#8211;I love Cold War spy films and series!<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll add this post\u00a0to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/tag\/radios-in-movies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">our ever growing archive of radios in film!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, John Harper (AE5X), who writes: I don&#8217;t know if you&#8217;ve heard of a new series on Netflix &#8211; &#8220;The Same Sky&#8221; is a Cold War spy series regarding an attempt to gain access to an American eavesdropping facility in Berlin in the 1970&#8217;s. Not a lot of radio-related activity [&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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,172,43],"tags":[4088,5506,7153],"class_list":["post-33180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-numbers-stations","category-shortwave-radio","tag-numbers-stations","tag-radios-in-movies","tag-the-same-sky"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-8Da","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5758,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/numbers-stations-stranger-than-fiction\/","url_meta":{"origin":33180,"position":0},"title":"Numbers stations: stranger than fiction","author":"Thomas","date":"February 24, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"More mentions of numbers stations in the popular press, thanks to the new movie, The Numbers Station. Hat tip to SWLing Post reader, HK: (Source: Reelz.com) [...]If you ever find yourself wishing your life was filled with a little more mystery, a little more excitement, save up thirty dollars and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Articles&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Articles","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/articles\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"towers","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":5575,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/shortwave-radio-recordings-listen-to-cuban-spy-numbers-station-hm01\/","url_meta":{"origin":33180,"position":1},"title":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: Listen to Cuban Spy Numbers Station HM01","author":"Thomas","date":"February 14, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Numbers stations have always been a dark oddity that pop up from time-to-time in the course of shortwave radio listening. 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Here's an excerpt: \"Many nights, Spooks turn on their shortwave radios and drift through the frequencies. On any\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Articles&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Articles","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/articles\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"towers","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":30813,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/bbc-video-the-spy-radio-that-anyone-can-hear\/","url_meta":{"origin":33180,"position":3},"title":"BBC video: &#8220;The &#8216;spy radio&#8217; that anyone can hear&#8221;","author":"Thomas","date":"February 10, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Mark Hirst, who writes: Nothing that an SWLing Post reader doesn\u2019t already know--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. 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