{"id":781,"date":"2010-07-18T11:10:16","date_gmt":"2010-07-18T11:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=781"},"modified":"2010-07-18T11:11:04","modified_gmt":"2010-07-18T11:11:04","slug":"npr-explores-numbers-stations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/npr-explores-numbers-stations\/","title":{"rendered":"NPR Explores Numbers Stations"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>This weekend, NPR’s Guy Raz interviewed\u00a0Mark Stout, the official historian at the International Spy Museum. Their topic? Numbers stations. Click hear to go to NPR’s webpage, listen and\/or read the full transcript.<\/a> You can also download an MP3 audio file of the report by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n

For even more numbers station audio, check out the piece that shortwave enthusiast, David Goren, produced by clicking here<\/a>.\u00a0 Also, read all of our various articles that mention numbers stations<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This weekend, NPR’s Guy Raz interviewed\u00a0Mark Stout, the official historian at the International Spy Museum. Their topic? Numbers stations. Click hear to go to NPR’s webpage, listen and\/or read the full transcript. You can also download an MP3 audio file of the report by clicking here. For even more numbers station audio, check out the […]<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,172],"tags":[274,20,4088,275,4082],"class_list":["post-781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-numbers-stations","tag-national-public-radio","tag-npr","tag-numbers-stations","tag-shortwave-number-stations","tag-shortwave-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-cB","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8375,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/david-gorens-numbers-station-piece-featured-on-99-invisible\/","url_meta":{"origin":781,"position":0},"title":"David Goren’s numbers station piece featured on 99% Invisible","author":"Thomas","date":"December 21, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"We've mentioned \"Shortwaveologist\" David Goren on the SWLing Post multiple times. David is a talented radio producer who also happens to be a life-long avid shortwave radio listener. One of David's productions,\u00a0Atencion! Seis Siete Tres Siete Cero: The Mystery of the Shortwave Numbers Stations, first aired in 2000 as part\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "New Products"","block_context":{"text":"New Products","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/new-products\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"99invisible-logo-itunes-badge","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/99invisible-logo-itunes-badge.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5882,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/david-gorens-numbers-station-installation-audio\/","url_meta":{"origin":781,"position":1},"title":"David Goren’s numbers station installation audio","author":"Thomas","date":"March 12, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Two months ago, I posted that David Goren, talented radio producer and shortwave radio artist, created a Numbers Station installation in the Secret Wars exhibition\u00a0at the Proteus Gowanus gallery in Brooklyn, NY. 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