{"id":65498,"date":"2026-03-05T07:19:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T11:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=65498"},"modified":"2026-03-05T07:19:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T11:19:18","slug":"new-farsi-numbers-station-reported-on-7910-khz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/new-farsi-numbers-station-reported-on-7910-khz\/","title":{"rendered":"New Farsi Numbers Station Reported on 7910 kHz"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor Richard Cuff, who shares an article from Seth Hettena\u2019s Substack<\/a> about the appearance of a new shortwave numbers station believed to be broadcasting in Farsi. Numbers stations–mysterious broadcasts that read sequences of numbers–have long been associated with intelligence agencies communicating with field operatives using unbreakable one-time pad encryption. According to the report, this new signal first appeared around the time of recent military strikes involving Iran and has been heard on 7910 kHz. One of our readers reported hearing it around 2:15 UTC recently.<\/p>\n

If you capture a recording of this numbers station, please reach out as I would like to add it to the Shortwave Radio Audio Archive<\/a>. Thank you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Richard Cuff, who shares an article from Seth Hettena\u2019s Substack about the appearance of a new shortwave numbers station believed to be broadcasting in Farsi. Numbers stations–mysterious broadcasts that read sequences of numbers–have long been associated with intelligence agencies communicating with field operatives using unbreakable one-time pad encryption. According […]<\/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":[11053,1162,4088,1012],"class_list":["post-65498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-numbers-stations","category-shortwave-radio","tag-farsi-numbers-station","tag-iran","tag-numbers-stations","tag-richard-cuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-h2q","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10770,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/numbers-stations-featured-in-highbrow-magazine\/","url_meta":{"origin":65498,"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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