{"id":55842,"date":"2023-02-15T08:00:28","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T12:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=55842"},"modified":"2023-02-15T08:00:28","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T12:00:28","slug":"use-of-numbers-station-audio-in-this-piece-by-the-random-earth-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/use-of-numbers-station-audio-in-this-piece-by-the-random-earth-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Use of numbers station audio in this piece by The Random Earth Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><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>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Gary (G0CUQ), who writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Hi Thomas,<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">I remember a while ago some posts relating to music with short wave\/radio leanings (<a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/wilcos-yankee-hotel-foxtrot-and-shortwave-radio\/\">Wilco<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/quindar-tones-from-the-swling-post-archives\/\">Quindar<\/a> come to mind).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">I found a fairly new English group, <em>The Random Earth Project<\/em>, who have subtly slipped a numbers station in at the beginning of their track called &#8216;Airwaves&#8217;. It pops up later in the track too (a seven minute progressive rock epic!). I&#8217;ll leave a YouTube link here:<\/p>\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\/IN6dwmfv1K8?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=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Quite a surprise to hear that, although I don&#8217;t know the origin of the station.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Thanks for bringing us the SWLing Post &#8211; it&#8217;s one of the first things I check online. It&#8217;s a go-to for me as a ham who hasn&#8217;t lost the SWL bug!<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Cheers,<br \/>\nGary G0CUQ<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thank you so much, Gary, for the tip about The Random Earth Project! I love how they&#8217;ve implemented numbers station audio. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thank you for the kind comments about the SWLing Post, too. I truly appreciate that!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Gary (G0CUQ), who writes: Hi Thomas, I remember a while ago some posts relating to music with short wave\/radio leanings (Wilco &amp; Quindar come to mind). I found a fairly new English group, The Random Earth Project, who have subtly slipped a numbers station in at the beginning of [&hellip;]<\/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":[442,3,43],"tags":[10141,611,10140],"class_list":["post-55842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-gary-g0cuq","tag-shortwave-music","tag-the-random-earth-project"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-ewG","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10770,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/numbers-stations-featured-in-highbrow-magazine\/","url_meta":{"origin":55842,"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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