{"id":9685,"date":"2014-05-21T07:55:49","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T11:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=9685"},"modified":"2014-05-21T07:55:49","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T11:55:49","slug":"numbers-station-presentation-by-peter-staal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/numbers-station-presentation-by-peter-staal\/","title":{"rendered":"Numbers station presentation by Peter Staal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.criticaldistance.blogspot.nl\/2014\/05\/peter-staal-on-mysterious-number.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Marks<\/a> who discovered the following video&#8211;a lecture by Peter Staal at\u00a0TU Delft&#8211;on the topic of numbers stations:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h1XuKA8Kj4w\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Note that they attempt to sort out a technical problem in the first three minutes of the lecture.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Check out <a title=\"Critical Distance\" href=\"http:\/\/www.criticaldistance.blogspot.nl\/2014\/05\/peter-staal-on-mysterious-number.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan&#8217;s post on <em>Critical Distance<\/em><\/a> for his comments and videos of <a title=\"On YouTube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ocWASywcsAU\" target=\"_blank\">Speech Morse Generators<\/a>: the machines behind the numbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to Jonathan Marks who discovered the following video&#8211;a lecture by Peter Staal at\u00a0TU Delft&#8211;on the topic of numbers stations: Note that they attempt to sort out a technical problem in the first three minutes of the lecture. Check out Jonathan&#8217;s post on Critical Distance for his comments and videos of Speech Morse Generators: [&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":[3,172,1167],"tags":[4088,2907,2909,2910,445,1607,2908],"class_list":["post-9685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-numbers-stations","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-numbers-stations","tag-peter-staal","tag-peter-staal-numbers-stations","tag-speech-morse-generators","tag-spy-numbers","tag-spy-numbers-stations","tag-tu-delft"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2wd","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30374,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/going-by-the-numbers\/","url_meta":{"origin":9685,"position":0},"title":"Going By the Numbers","author":"Robert Gulley","date":"January 18, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"For those who follow numbers stations or, like me, enjoy seeing articles about numbers stations, below are a few paragraphs from a recent article in Radio World by author James Careless: \u201c6-7-9-2-6. 5-6-9-9-0.\u201d Tune across the shortwave bands (above AM\/MW), and chances are you will come across a \u201cnumbers station.\u201d\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Articles&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Articles","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/articles\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/numbers.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/numbers.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/numbers.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/numbers.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":8844,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/miami-herald-cuban-spies-and-shortwave-numbers\/","url_meta":{"origin":9685,"position":1},"title":"Miami Herald: Cuban spies and shortwave numbers","author":"Thomas","date":"February 26, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"I should note that we have several\u00a0recordings and frequencies for the numbers station HM01, which is mentioned in this article. 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Aid's blog: [...]It was a cold Saturday morning in April 1988 when a van full of detectives arrived outside the North London home of Erwin van Haarlem. 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