{"id":44415,"date":"2020-07-20T06:00:39","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T10:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=44415"},"modified":"2020-07-19T21:43:09","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T01:43:09","slug":"can-you-help-carlos-identify-this-1982-polytone-broadcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/can-you-help-carlos-identify-this-1982-polytone-broadcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you help Carlos identify this 1982 polytone broadcast?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/SX-99-Dial-Nar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14917\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/SX-99-Dial-Nar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"751\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/SX-99-Dial-Nar.jpg 751w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/SX-99-Dial-Nar-300x115.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 751px) 100vw, 751px\" \/><\/a>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Carlos Latuff, who writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I have a tape with a recording I made in 1982 while listening to shortwave.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not really sure if I caught some kind of polytone numbers station. Could you or your readers be able to identify it?<\/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\/gSPdqUYez2k?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><strong>Post readers:<\/strong> If you can help Carlos identify this transmission, please comment!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Carlos Latuff, who writes: I have a tape with a recording I made in 1982 while listening to shortwave. I&#8217;m not really sure if I caught some kind of polytone numbers station. Could you or your readers be able to identify it? Post readers: If you can help Carlos [&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":[3,746,43],"tags":[8043,5448,4106,4082],"class_list":["post-44415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-recordings","category-shortwave-radio","tag-carlos-latuff","tag-mystery-signals","tag-recordings","tag-shortwave-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-byn","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":58191,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/can-you-help-carlos-identify-this-station\/","url_meta":{"origin":44415,"position":0},"title":"Can you help Carlos identify this station?","author":"Thomas","date":"November 12, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Carlos Latuff, who writes: Hey Thomas, just got a broadcast (Nov 5, 2023) on 21640 kHz, from 15h30 to 16h00 UTC here in Rio de Janeiro. 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