{"id":3652,"date":"2012-05-26T17:54:43","date_gmt":"2012-05-26T21:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=3652"},"modified":"2012-05-27T06:56:22","modified_gmt":"2012-05-27T10:56:22","slug":"finding-numbers-stations-while-scanning-for-pirates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/finding-numbers-stations-while-scanning-for-pirates\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding the &#8220;English Man&#8221; numbers station while scanning for pirates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-470\" title=\"towers\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/grimetonbandw-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"158\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/grimetonbandw-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/grimetonbandw.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 158px) 100vw, 158px\" \/>While listening for pirate radio stations last night, I recorded a numbers station. I found it on 6,949 kHz at 1:30 UTC, 26 May 2012. It was broadcast in USB for almost exactly ten minutes. The ID was sent for a full four minutes of that time. I have a full recording below.<\/p>\n<p>With a quick check on <a title=\"Spynumbers.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.spynumbers.com\/enigma.html\" target=\"_blank\">SpyNumbers.com<\/a>, I&#8217;m pretty sure this is a station called, the &#8220;English Man.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re not familiar with numbers stations, check out <a title=\"David Goren Explores Numbers Stations\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/david-goren-explores-numbers-stations\/\">this previous post<\/a>\u00a0where Shortwaveology author, David Goren, explores numbers stations.<\/p>\n<p>If you have trouble listening to the embedded player below, simply <a title=\"Listen or Download the mp3 file\" href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/NumbersStation--6949Khz\/NumbersStation260512-0130UTC-6949kHzUSB.MP3\" target=\"_blank\">click here to listen to the mp3 file<\/a>.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/NumbersStation--6949Khz\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"48\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While listening for pirate radio stations last night, I recorded a numbers station. I found it on 6,949 kHz at 1:30 UTC, 26 May 2012. It was broadcast in USB for almost exactly ten minutes. The ID was sent for a full four minutes of that time. I have a full recording below. With a [&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":[172,746,43],"tags":[1157,4088,1156,173,737],"class_list":["post-3652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-numbers-stations","category-recordings","category-shortwave-radio","tag-6949-khz","tag-numbers-stations","tag-numbers-stations-recordings","tag-shortwave-numbers","tag-shortwave-radio-recordings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-WU","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3690,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/numbers-stations-the-english-man-came-back\/","url_meta":{"origin":3652,"position":0},"title":"Numbers Stations: The English Man came back","author":"Thomas","date":"June 7, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Two weeks ago this Friday,\u00a0I caught and recorded the numbers station often referred to as the English Man. 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I attempted to listening to the station on 4625 kHz from my home location here in Toronto, Ontario Canada but unfortunately could not receive\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/TheBuzzer_2020-07-18_011335-KiwiSDR-Waterfall-e1595417023639.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/TheBuzzer_2020-07-18_011335-KiwiSDR-Waterfall-e1595417023639.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/TheBuzzer_2020-07-18_011335-KiwiSDR-Waterfall-e1595417023639.jpeg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/TheBuzzer_2020-07-18_011335-KiwiSDR-Waterfall-e1595417023639.jpeg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":5758,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/numbers-stations-stranger-than-fiction\/","url_meta":{"origin":3652,"position":4},"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. 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