{"id":5627,"date":"2013-03-01T08:01:25","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T12:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=5627"},"modified":"2013-02-27T07:04:26","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T11:04:26","slug":"even-numbers-stations-make-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/even-numbers-stations-make-mistakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Even numbers stations make mistakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/CubanFlag.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5623\" alt=\"WFL_015\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/CubanFlag-300x202.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/CubanFlag-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/CubanFlag-100x67.jpg 100w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/CubanFlag.jpg 475w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>On February 5th, 2013, the Cuban numbers station widely known as <a title=\"HM01\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/tag\/hm01\" target=\"_blank\">HM01<\/a> struggled to maintain its composure following an awkward studio error.<\/p>\n<p>In this particular case, I started recording a few seconds prior to the carrier, at which point you&#8217;ll hear a couple of minutes of &#8220;dead air&#8221; (silence). The broadcast starts around 2:25, cutting into the middle of a data burst; the station then goes silent before it comes back on at 5:15 with numbers, then abruptly stops. At 6:15 the station restarts the numbers broadcast in earnest.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Download the MP3 recording of HM01 with errors\" href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/Hm01-CubanNumbersStationWithErrors-5.855Mhz05Feb2013\/HM01-Errors-NumbersStation-5.855MHz-.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Download the MP3 of the full recording by clicking here<\/a>, or listen via the embedded player below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/Hm01-CubanNumbersStationWithErrors-5.855Mhz05Feb2013\" height=\"30\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Archive.org\" href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/Hm01-CubanNumbersStationWithErrors-5.855Mhz05Feb2013\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to view the Archive.org with original audio files.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 5th, 2013, the Cuban numbers station widely known as HM01 struggled to maintain its composure following an awkward studio error. In this particular case, I started recording a few seconds prior to the carrier, at which point you&#8217;ll hear a couple of minutes of &#8220;dead air&#8221; (silence). The broadcast starts around 2:25, cutting [&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":[56,172],"tags":[1699,1698,1678,1700,4088,1609,1607],"class_list":["post-5627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-numbers-stations","tag-cuban-numbers-stations","tag-cuban-spy-numbers","tag-hm01","tag-hm01-errors","tag-numbers-stations","tag-shortwave-numbers-stations","tag-spy-numbers-stations"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1sL","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7413,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/cuban-numbers-station-hm01-serving-up-a-little-confusion\/","url_meta":{"origin":5627,"position":0},"title":"Cuban Numbers Station HM01: serving up a little confusion","author":"Thomas","date":"September 27, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"On occasion, I hear the Cuban numbers station HM01 on 5,855 kHz on weekday mornings. 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