July 24, 2004
I want a short wave radio please.
"59372 98324 19043 78903 95320...". The mechanized female voice drones on and on... What have you stumbled on to? Instructions to spies? Messages exchanged between drug dealers? Deliberate attempts at deception and mis-information?
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The Conet Project.
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juliet bravo juliet bravo Juliet Bravo Good find.
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This is great, except none of the audio samples seem to work anymore.
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Fun link. There was a spoof numbers station. This makes me want to get my world band radio out again and find some batteries.
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Stereolab used counting station samples in one of their songs, as did Chromakey. Anyone know any others who've sampled it?
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Yeah, presription-drug rockers Wilco sampled it.
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I had a shortwave radio in the late 70s and these things were a lot of fun. When you hear them you try to imagine who is listening and what they're doing.
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Boards of Canada have also sampled number stations in "Gyroscope" from their Geogaddi album. Mighty good it sounds, too.
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Article here gives a sketcvh of modern cryptanalysis and coding methods.
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Jesus jolly hockeysticks! Here.
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Which Stereolab song used the sample?
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I know what numberstations are.
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Well, geeze, Nostril, share,
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hear, hear! Kick down, nose-prophet!
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Nostrildamus: 66417 59684 31327 06033 49762?
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So which quonsar is that?
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well. heh. i forgot the password to this account. but then i remembered it again. so i'll probably send goons to dispatch that quonset fella...
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I always preferred quonsar to quonset anyway.
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*digs Geogaddi out and listens* Cool! I never made that connection, probably because I'm used to hearing counting in BoC songs, and I hadn't heard the counting stations in English. There's something sonically fascinating about German, too. Todfox: Pause (Track 6) on Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements. Good stuff.
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here's what numberstations are.
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The slashdot discussion, and a linked salon article. nifty stuff, thanks sangsaengnim! )