{"id":53005,"date":"2022-06-12T07:28:53","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T11:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=53005"},"modified":"2022-06-12T07:29:40","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T11:29:40","slug":"podcast-dives-into-cold-war-numbers-stations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/podcast-dives-into-cold-war-numbers-stations\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast dives into world of Cold War Numbers Stations"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Ulis, who shares a link to the following episode of the Cold War Conversations podcast which focuses on numbers stations:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cold War number stations<\/a><\/h1>\n

You might remember listening to short wave radio during the Cold War and coming across weird transmissions of metallic voices reciting random groups of numbers through the ether. These are number stations, shortwave radio stations characterised by broadcasts of formatted numbers, which were being sent to spies operating in foreign countries.<\/p>\n

Number stations were used widely during the Cold War and we speak with Jo Reggelt of ShortwaveNumbers.com. Jo has been working with Simon Mason who was a founding member of ENIGMA, launched in the 1980\u2019s after identifying several of these stations.<\/p>\n

We discuss in detail the operations behind the transmissions and the stations themselves. You will hear some sample transmissions, including one of drunken Stasi officers serenading their agents after the opening of the Wall. [Continue reading…<\/a>]<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/www.podtrac.com\/pts\/redirect.mp3\/www.buzzsprout.com\/167223\/10763285-cold-war-number-stations-239.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

Click here to listen to this podcast on the Cold War Conversations website<\/a>, <\/strong>
\nor via iTunes<\/a> or Spotify<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Ulis, who shares a link to the following episode of the Cold War Conversations podcast which focuses on numbers stations: Cold War number stations You might remember listening to short wave radio during the Cold War and coming across weird transmissions of metallic voices reciting random groups of numbers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[752,9853,721,275,4082,445],"class_list":["post-53005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-numbers-stations","category-shortwave-radio","tag-cold-war","tag-cold-war-conversations","tag-numbers-station","tag-shortwave-number-stations","tag-shortwave-radio","tag-spy-numbers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-dMV","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10770,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/numbers-stations-featured-in-highbrow-magazine\/","url_meta":{"origin":53005,"position":0},"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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