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May. 31st, 2005 08:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dolariI haven't written my letter yet. Considering what I'm doing today, I really should. Please, everyone, wish me luck.
Dean and Jill invited me to a Labor Day BBQ, with a good deal of hamburgers, pickles, and hot dogs. And real dogs. Oh, man. LOTS of real dogs. Four. Two who were at least in the 50 pound range. Two who were smaller dogs. None of them realizing where in space-time they existed, and all trying to be in Your Space At Once.
After many hours of company and dogs, I came home and had a nice long chat with Emily, as I do as ofen as I can. Somehow we got on the subject of Numbers Stations. Anyone out there hear these stations on shortwave? I've heard quite a few of them. Eventually when Dean got home later, he got in on the numbers station stuff. He got really interested, and we pulled out the shortwave radio.
My radio isn't the BEST shortwave radio (well, I'm not sure how good it is, as I'm always indoors), but we turned it on, went for the lowest frequency and slowly ran up the dial. We got the Usual Religious Nuts around 3500MHz and slowly went up the scale. And at 4430MHz, we picked up a VERY faint distorted signal. It was a male voice, too blurry to really make out what he was saying, but the cadence and innunciation was there. We'd found a numbers station.
Now...tell me...how secret are your secret messages when a first time scanner can find your signal? :)
(Yes, I know these are heavly encrypted public transmissions, but this was his first time....)
Dean and Jill invited me to a Labor Day BBQ, with a good deal of hamburgers, pickles, and hot dogs. And real dogs. Oh, man. LOTS of real dogs. Four. Two who were at least in the 50 pound range. Two who were smaller dogs. None of them realizing where in space-time they existed, and all trying to be in Your Space At Once.
After many hours of company and dogs, I came home and had a nice long chat with Emily, as I do as ofen as I can. Somehow we got on the subject of Numbers Stations. Anyone out there hear these stations on shortwave? I've heard quite a few of them. Eventually when Dean got home later, he got in on the numbers station stuff. He got really interested, and we pulled out the shortwave radio.
My radio isn't the BEST shortwave radio (well, I'm not sure how good it is, as I'm always indoors), but we turned it on, went for the lowest frequency and slowly ran up the dial. We got the Usual Religious Nuts around 3500MHz and slowly went up the scale. And at 4430MHz, we picked up a VERY faint distorted signal. It was a male voice, too blurry to really make out what he was saying, but the cadence and innunciation was there. We'd found a numbers station.
Now...tell me...how secret are your secret messages when a first time scanner can find your signal? :)
(Yes, I know these are heavly encrypted public transmissions, but this was his first time....)
