I work in air conditioning and have to go into peoples houses when their AC breaks down, about 6 years ago i went to work at this one guys house, while i was in another room, the home owner was having a conference call on speaker phone where i could hear people rattling off random numbers and he would write them down on a note pad while occasionally chiming in and responding with a set of numbers back. I remember the whole thing made me really uncomfortable.
Using a phone to relay cyrptographic info literally defeats the purpose of it. I also would highly someone with the knowledge and skills to communicate in such a way would do so while complete strangers are in the same room, that also defeats the purpose of encrypted messages
When I was in US Army Signal Corps, an instructor told us that these stations weren't broadcasting any real data...the strange sounds and other audible features were a means for the station to authenticate itself. "The real message comes the day the station goes dark and stays dark." The exact time and date would correspond to a 'code book' entry informing agents what to do next.
@@heroscapewarrior4217Spies and saboteurs going back to WW1 are at times given something called a “one time pad.” The pad is essentially a key to decrypt messages being sent as “random” number sequences by the station. The coded messages being sent are theoretically unbreakable because the key (the one time pad) is a completely random pattern, it can only be used once, the message and key are always the same length and only the sender/receiver have copies of the key itself.
The key here is that you can transmit your message without code and completely open. Hence, radio is a very cheap and inconspicuous device and it doesn't matter if the enemy is listening in. It's a one way system.
I’m sure these radio stations are used in coordination with Dark Net sites that constantly update their codes for use by foreign intelligence agencies operating within rival countries.
This video feels super nostalgic in style, I remember when you did this type of video when you used captions instead of speaking. Hearing it was a real nice touch to something that brought me back to the early days of this channel. Nice video!
Numbers stations have been going since WW1 I remember 50 years ago listening to them like the Lincolnshire poacher station and many more with all sorts of accents and languages. I had flick all idea what it was about other than espionage.
I have been listening to websdr from Gotland Island and Poland to monitor certain channels. Some very strange signals, pirates, oddities, and wartime transmissions out there. I make videos on my channel when I find something interesting. I love this topic, great video man - cheers from Canada
I once bought a collection of old martial arts movies that came in a boxset. I don’t recall what movie it was among them but at one point in the movie the dubbed over voices dropped and it changed to two German male voices speaking for roughly 4 minutes then it went back to normal.. secret messages? Or editing issues… I’ll never know..
Fun Fact. 84 Year old ARCA race team owner Wayne Peterson was an Army Decoder. He broke a Important Vietnam vode and was awarded a medal of service from President Reagan.
I live at 9400ft, and now I want to get an antenna and high power radio,more than ever now. Good chance of picking up, maybe some. Who knows? Wild skip for sure.
I suggest starting cheap and affordable for radios and scanners as a hobbyist myself. You need UHF, VHF, ULF, SW, to pick up generally everything. But here's the catch. You have to understand the environment you're in too and be familiar with interferences. Like your car for example has a "Filter" on the alternator because you could hear it on older radios. My Grundig 750 picks up machinery and equipment. Case in point one DXing session I had I was scanning and the deck depot on my ship turned the lights on, the electronic noise sounded like a screaming parrot. My chief laughed as I got up swearing like crazy and rubbing my ears. So here's what I have picked up. Alaska (At sea): CNR-1, Public radio in St.Petersberg Florida, Brother Stair (He's a meme for being hellfire and brimstone) VOA in French. BC (at sea): CNR-1, BBC Australia. Washington State (land): CNR-1 Radio Havana, Radio Havana English, NHK, Radio Pyangyang (Korean) Oregon (Land): Art Bell Coast to Coast FM, Pirate Station ran by White Supremacist, South Asian Music. California (at sea): Jungle Public Radio Brazil, CNR-1, couple HAM stations. The thing is that this is very limited with lots of electronic noise or bad locations. But I encourage you to hit up the DXing (that's the hobby is called) forums and learn more. It's pretty cool and fun. I got started DXing SW when I was in trade school and remembered Oregon has a ton of little weird radio stations.
simple CB radio with a 19ft long wire antenna - awesome cheap thrills :) set it horizonal north-south - you get max reception east-to-west. line up the wire east-west, u get max signal north-south :) have both, and your awesome
Best channel ever, I’ve been following Dark5 since 10 years ago, and I love this video so much as a radio enthusiast, I have listened to several strange number stations
In the 70s I would play my electric guitar through a pedal and this stuff came through my amplifier late at night. I would call my band mate and have him listen through the telephone. I think either the pedal or the pickup acted like a sort of antenae. We figured that it was some kind of spy stuff. Jeff Tweedy named his album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot after these Irdials that he picked up. The album The Conet Project collected a bunch of these Irdials.
I think it was in a book by Frank Camper that he talked about being in Vietnam and the cheap phonegraph they had picked up some numbers and other code and when they mentioned it to the super secret radio guys they got real quiet and then the next day they didn't have the interference
No, actually, it's called qsb. fading. The term skip describes ionospheric refraction. Where radio signals bounce off the ionosphere in back to Earth and then back and then back and then back and circle the globe.
Hey my good man. Not sure what's going on, but I'm not receiving notifications of when you post, and I'm subbed to all your channels. Anyone else having/had this problem? 🤔 I live on the English coast, the closest point to the French coast. Growing up, we had some serious wacky signals and this is something that's always fascinated me. There's a great channel called Ringway Manchester that give some great content on Number Stations etc. Great content as usual 👍
You woke up distant memory in me. Im a Finn from Helsinki, Estonia and Tallinn is situated right behind Baltic on the South, pretty much just like you and France. My grandpa worked his whole life in radio (Yleisradio, our BBC) as technician or mechanic in the link tower, and loved both tv & radio deeply, in all forms. He had the first Beta-video I ever saw, later he bought VHS too and used both daily. He set his tv to catch Soviet era Estonian tv, he even learned some Estonian from it, but he also tinkered with radios. This is very faint memory, I must’ve been really small (prob 1980ish), but Im sure he phoned to one of his radio enthusiast buddies and said he heard something weird, coming from Estonia. There was a sense of urgency or discovery, unusual or weird things were going on. I wanna say he gave the “coordinates” (frequency?, no idea what they are called) over phone and told the other guy to check it out, almost like “can you hear it too?”, but this part Im not as sure. I only remember sitting on the kitchen floor with my puzzle and the slight worry, surprise or excitement in his voice. What a weird, long buried memory decided to surface, thanks to your post! Now Im left wondering was he just really super into all things transmitting or was my mild mannered and stoic gramps possibly a spy :)
@@janemiettinen5176 Either way, that is a fascinating story and a great read. Get researching, Ringway has covered lots of different places. My Son Mika was named after a great flying Finn. Thanks for sharing 🙏
1:01 Such unidentified messages might be cheaper to produce than the calculated estimate of the expense that a desperate enemy may spend in intelligence personnel wasted on trying to decode the nonsense messages.
a lot of people wouldn't believe it, but Cuba has always been very adept at its human intelligence gathering or HUMINT. they certainly took their KGB training and ran with it, so to speak
I would say that the Cubans are light years ahead of the KGB. They got that country locked down. It's amazing how many tourists go there every year who are totally ignorant of it. When you enter the country they take a picture of you at the airport. They do that for a reason. They track everything and everyone.
"In 2012...." These things have been on non-commercial frequencies _FOR DECADES!_ Cuba also used reel-to-reel and still does sometimes. It's funny to hear an old recording playing the voices BACKWARS.
The issue would be that this is his "broadcast voice," meaning that his casual, everyday voice would sound noticeably different. You wouldn't recognize him..
Worked with a guy who had been in a branch of the US armed forces... Army or Air Force, don't really remember as It's been 7 years ago... Anyway, we were working in Illinois and he knew I was from Oklahoma. He asked if I had ever heard of a particular small town. I had heard if it and had actually been there. He told me that he and a handful of members of his unit had been sent there to set up a listening post. Said they were there for a few weeks listening to radio traffic from another country... North Korea, China, someplace like that... Again, I don't remember. But something about that area around that little town allowed them to receive a good enough signal to monitor comms from somewhere across the world. Pretty wild stuff. I'll have to see if I can get ahold of that guy and fill in the details of my foggy memory.
“Skyking” is the callsign for all SIOP (Single Integrated Operations Plan) assets which includes nuclear capable bombers, missile silos, communications aircraft (e.g. E-6 Mercury and E-4 Nightwatch), and support aircraft and crews. These take higher priority over EAMs and Force Direction Messages. Because EAMs and FDMs cannot be decoded without the key, it’s impossible to determine if a message is an EAM or FDM. It’s also impossible to know if the encoded message is gibberish just meant to throw off hostile nations who might be listening all the way to a true nuclear launch order.
I'm just happy that there are smart people out there who are keeping track of this stuff outside our closed government! I for one would want to know if something major was afoot. So thank you !
I use to have fun with my dad's national radio that had 4 short wave bands. Usually late at night NZ time I'd plug in our tv aerial and grab a beer slowly go through the bands. I'd mainly pick up morse code, but I'd get some soviet code with female voices. Great fun after a late night at work.
In the 90's I was listening to the radio and it was interrupted by a guy with a weird voice reading number in spanish: Uno Dos Tres Quatro Cinqo Cinqo Seis
There were a few very mysterious and fascinating radio signals I heard as kid in the 1970s on our old Loewe Mallorca stereo tube trunk-console, a huge beasty, which had an FM/SW/MW/LW receiver. Fascinating stuff it was! There was especially one, that kept repeating the same very strange burst of a short weird melody, and then a long tone, and the melody repeated, but seemed to have small variations.
RUclips unsubscribed me from your channel. I was actually walking through the sixth-floor museum in Dallas when you released the Kennedy video. You must have gotten a bit too close to the sun. Which part do you think got it nerfed, was it the babushka lady or the umbrella man, neither of which was mentioned in the museum. There was also a man outside of the museum with an enhanced image of mussel flashes coming from the grassy knoll, a video that has never circulated on the internet.
There was a more recent SKYKING message broadcast than the one you included in this video. It was broadcast on April 12 and I posted it to my channel a few days later.
Anything out of Cuba gives me pause - that’s a very dedicated, well-entrenched regime, always up to no good, which is why people continue to risk their lives to escape from it.
Okay, whoa, because I stumbled on one of these randomly while playing with a hand crank international radio I bought for storm/weather info (it has two weather channel features too). And i was scrolling across stations, and heard THIS. The woman, the spanish numbers, the tones.
The band Porcupine Tree uses a sample of number stations at the end of the track "Even Less", the writer Steve Wilson says there's something "spooky" about messages flying around us we cannot understand, it's so futile to think these could be coded messages to assinate someone or just a shopping list of supplies to be collected from an army store, who knows, they have a rhythm and an almost hypnotic trance like effect if you listen to them for too long.
Actually got a taped recording of hmo1 it's neat to see it's still running. In southern Wisconsin you can pick it up around 4pm with a consumer grade shortwave radio receiver
Back in the mid '70s, when I was in my early 'teens, I did a lot of Short-wave listening. I recall logging Hispanic Numeric Sequences. I no longer have my logbook, but I believe that the transmission was between 7mhz and 14mhz. I presumed that bait was some manner of Spy Broadcast, and I believe that an issue of "Popular Electronics" mentioned these broadcasts.
Listening to some of them. They seem like they're using an open line to send info for syncing a radio to a secret line. Military radios have to be synced together to communicate. Edit: i think im actually on to something. We would use a device called an ANCD. They required a certain code to be put in and it reminds me a lot of what theyre saying with the numbers stations
Would be useful to have the frequency of each of these channels listed and mode of transmission (AM, FM, USB, LSB etc). Regarding the 'zombie' satelites as a radio ham we had one of our OSCAR satelites come back to life a few years ago but only whilst the solar panels were in sunlight so we realised the onboard batteries had gone open circuit and it was operating only by solar power as are the others.
AO-7 is my personal favorite zombie satellite, not least of all because of how we got it back: after it failed in the early 80s, Polish resistance fighters discovered it would sometimes work in sunlight, and used it to communicate with different cells across communist Poland and the west. Given that the government had seized most radio gear, and monitored everything, AO-7 was one of the only ways to freely communicate. After the fall of the USSR, some resistance fighters wrote about it in their memoirs, and it was largely forgotten - until a ham read them in 2002, realized the implications, and did some tests to determine that it still worked! AMSAT made an announcement, and to this day it’s one of the oldest working satellites up there.
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RUclips nerfed and hid my last JFK video. I wonder why...? 🤔 I'll try to bring it back at a later date. 👽
Thats their way of saying its true and nobody gets to know the truth
Sketchy
I'd ask why except I know YT never really gives a reason. It was a really good video!
Ooooooooo schnitzellll
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I work in air conditioning and have to go into peoples houses when their AC breaks down, about 6 years ago i went to work at this one guys house, while i was in another room, the home owner was having a conference call on speaker phone where i could hear people rattling off random numbers and he would write them down on a note pad while occasionally chiming in and responding with a set of numbers back. I remember the whole thing made me really uncomfortable.
BINGO!
Yeah, or maybe he was just playing Battleships with his mates...
@@matthaxx7137 -😂
Using a phone to relay cyrptographic info literally defeats the purpose of it. I also would highly someone with the knowledge and skills to communicate in such a way would do so while complete strangers are in the same room, that also defeats the purpose of encrypted messages
Were they IP addresses?
When I was in US Army Signal Corps, an instructor told us that these stations weren't broadcasting any real data...the strange sounds and other audible features were a means for the station to authenticate itself.
"The real message comes the day the station goes dark and stays dark."
The exact time and date would correspond to a 'code book' entry informing agents what to do next.
"The Division".
@@John-wd5cb ILLUMINATE please ??????IS this A NSA/DIA op???Stay behinds/GLADIO II?????in us????
Channel markers to keep the frequency open is what im told. Interesting I never though about it like that.
@tripplefives1402 yes I see that all the time
Thank you for your service I really mean it.
The old Soviet numbers stations were by far the creepiest. Something about the accent, and the times in which they were broadcast. 😨
What was the point of the numbers stations?
@@heroscapewarrior4217Spies and saboteurs going back to WW1 are at times given something called a “one time pad.” The pad is essentially a key to decrypt messages being sent as “random” number sequences by the station.
The coded messages being sent are theoretically unbreakable because the key (the one time pad) is a completely random pattern, it can only be used once, the message and key are always the same length and only the sender/receiver have copies of the key itself.
Yes, feels like an uncanny valley effect of some sort
@@heroscapewarrior4217 Secret codes broadcast to spies abroad, supposedly
@@heroscapewarrior4217it was codes for staff in points beyond
Crazy to think that in 2024 Numbers Stations are still a good way of transmitting information - goes to show the strength of a good code and cipher.
The key here is that you can transmit your message without code and completely open. Hence, radio is a very cheap and inconspicuous device and it doesn't matter if the enemy is listening in. It's a one way system.
I’m sure these radio stations are used in coordination with Dark Net sites that constantly update their codes for use by foreign intelligence agencies operating within rival countries.
A lot of TV stations and Comcast corporate were Beta up to around 2010
@@azynkron, walking around with a radio these days,😊 could be more suspicious than you think.
This video feels super nostalgic in style, I remember when you did this type of video when you used captions instead of speaking. Hearing it was a real nice touch to something that brought me back to the early days of this channel. Nice video!
I used to LOVE this channel years ago when it was only text...still a good channel but this is the first time ive seen it again in a long time
If Pokemon has taught me anything, that radio station, HM01 contains cut and it can be used outside battle after obtaining the cascade badge.
Underrated comment
I rubbed the Captain's back to relieve his sea sickness.
@@aqdrobert in the safari zone I found a dudes teeth
@@johngancarcik5682 May you receive STRENGTH to move BOULDERS!
Lol I love it 😂😅
We just want the numbers, Mason. That's all we've ever wanted.
I KEEP HEARING THE FU**ING NUMBERS!
@@UncVEVOWHAT DO THE NUMBERS MEAN
Numbers stations have been going since WW1
I remember 50 years ago listening to them like the Lincolnshire poacher station and many more with all sorts of accents and languages.
I had flick all idea what it was about other than espionage.
I remember reading about some radio broadcaster that was doing this in South America in the 1970s.
LES-1 isn't the only zombie satellite. I've picked up TRANSIT 5B-5 several times, transmitting nonsense telemetry on 136.658
He said there was 6 of them
Why does this scare me lol
Oddly the number of likes you have on this comment 🤔
mHz, i assume?
@@farlandu_wmv MHz, it's hard to send anything on mHz band
Ringway Manchester. He's covered all of these already. He's a really good source of info for this stuff.
Those first numbers translated to "Del Taco has better tacos than Taco Bell. Keep on DL"
100%
My code book validates that decryption.
Psychological warfare, because TB beats DT to the ground
@@babayaga7434
Taco Boy!!
You're so wrong, that was a Cuban woman and those numbers loosely translate to "Pollo Tropical is better than La Granja"
I have been listening to websdr from Gotland Island and Poland to monitor certain channels. Some very strange signals, pirates, oddities, and wartime transmissions out there. I make videos on my channel when I find something interesting. I love this topic, great video man - cheers from Canada
I love this topic! I'm your 3rd subscriber.
I’m the 6th!
17th!
@@b1r2y3n Thank you for the support !
@@julian_david4556 Nice ! thanks for helping me grow the channel
I once bought a collection of old martial arts movies that came in a boxset. I don’t recall what movie it was among them but at one point in the movie the dubbed over voices dropped and it changed to two German male voices speaking for roughly 4 minutes then it went back to normal.. secret messages? Or editing issues… I’ll never know..
Fun Fact. 84 Year old ARCA race team owner Wayne Peterson was an Army Decoder. He broke a Important Vietnam vode and was awarded a medal of service from President Reagan.
What's a vode?
I'm glad he broke the "vode"
@@kylegreene1356I think he meant vase
@@FrankNStein-bw4gf : (typo - 'v' next to 'c' on keyboard)
Fun
Right up my alley. I find number stations fascinating!
I live at 9400ft, and now I want to get an antenna and high power radio,more than ever now. Good chance of picking up, maybe some. Who knows? Wild skip for sure.
You'll survive the reset up there👍
I suggest starting cheap and affordable for radios and scanners as a hobbyist myself. You need UHF, VHF, ULF, SW, to pick up generally everything.
But here's the catch.
You have to understand the environment you're in too and be familiar with interferences. Like your car for example has a "Filter" on the alternator because you could hear it on older radios. My Grundig 750 picks up machinery and equipment.
Case in point one DXing session I had I was scanning and the deck depot on my ship turned the lights on, the electronic noise sounded like a screaming parrot. My chief laughed as I got up swearing like crazy and rubbing my ears.
So here's what I have picked up.
Alaska (At sea): CNR-1, Public radio in St.Petersberg Florida, Brother Stair (He's a meme for being hellfire and brimstone) VOA in French.
BC (at sea): CNR-1, BBC Australia.
Washington State (land): CNR-1 Radio Havana, Radio Havana English, NHK, Radio Pyangyang (Korean)
Oregon (Land): Art Bell Coast to Coast FM, Pirate Station ran by White Supremacist, South Asian Music.
California (at sea): Jungle Public Radio Brazil, CNR-1, couple HAM stations.
The thing is that this is very limited with lots of electronic noise or bad locations.
But I encourage you to hit up the DXing (that's the hobby is called) forums and learn more. It's pretty cool and fun.
I got started DXing SW when I was in trade school and remembered Oregon has a ton of little weird radio stations.
Get into ham radio. It's so cool@@Jo-sp5cp
simple CB radio with a 19ft long wire antenna - awesome cheap thrills :) set it horizonal north-south - you get max reception east-to-west. line up the wire east-west, u get max signal north-south :) have both, and your awesome
There are some fairly simple and not so expensive set ups that can talk to the I.S.S. HAM radios and CBs are fun.
I'm surprised the buzzer station didn't make it on here
The bigger mystery is why a russian is making the signals appear as Bart Simpson or cropped furry art
they made a video about the buzzer on their other channel a few years ago
WebSDR Art. That is so niche a troll / “because I can”
Of all the things you could do with your time….
We certainly live in _interesting times_
he touched it in one of his other videos
...or the DESERT WHOOPER.
Duuuude! I never unsubscribed from your channel! So good to see you again!
Those dial tones and phone noises will always be scary idc what anyone thinks 😭😭😭
True, it will forever return my fear of "Will it connect to the internet or not"
Best channel ever, I’ve been following Dark5 since 10 years ago, and I love this video so much as a radio enthusiast, I have listened to several strange number stations
I’m gonna make “do not answer” my voice mail message. 🙂
You know what I miss about the Cold War? All the subtext...
If you double tap a comment it will like it, if you triple tap it will allow you to reply
No just tap the 3rd speech bubble with the little lines in it.
Neat. thanks just tried it 😁👍now
@@Ann-sj4ptI've just done it on your comment.
Try it before you criticise it.
@@flickingbollocks5542 i’m not criticizing it.i’m just saying how i know it works.if you have found another way hurray for you 🤣
@@flickingbollocks5542 it doesn’t work i tried it.
One of my favourite channels of all time!
That's a crazy looking thumbnail. I love it!
In the 70s I would play my electric guitar through a pedal and this stuff came through my amplifier late at night. I would call my band mate and have him listen through the telephone. I think either the pedal or the pickup acted like a sort of antenae. We figured that it was some kind of spy stuff. Jeff Tweedy named his album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot after these Irdials that he picked up. The album The Conet Project collected a bunch of these Irdials.
I think it was in a book by Frank Camper that he talked about being in Vietnam and the cheap phonegraph they had picked up some numbers and other code and when they mentioned it to the super secret radio guys they got real quiet and then the next day they didn't have the interference
When the transmission fades in and out, that, in radio land, is called skip😮 and it can actually travel around the world. I have a CB that does this
cb radios cant travel the world. that would be hamm radios.
Yes cb can travel the world when conditions are right. I’ve talked to Australia numerous times from the States on lower side band
@@jameyevans29 100% I live In Australia and I remember talking to a bloke in Honolulu that had a 1kw linear in his car
@@jamesaustralian9829 oh yes! I always talked barefoot but there’s some massive stations out there
No, actually, it's called qsb. fading. The term skip describes ionospheric refraction. Where radio signals bounce off the ionosphere in back to Earth and then back and then back and then back and circle the globe.
4:27 Whiskey Alpha Romeo = War. I'm probably wrong and it doesn't mean actual war, but thought it was interesting.
But what is it good for?
@@westrim😂
Could also mean drinking while driving an Italian sports car.
@@westrim Absolutely nothin'.
I LOVE when you do Number Stations and mysterious signal vids!
Im the 90s I caught a Sky King broadcast while band scanning. It gave me chills.
From Australia, please tell more?
@@teresatickner7537 Not a lot to tell. "Sky King, Sky King do not answer, message follows." I was listening From Florida.
USED TO HEAR THEM FREQUENTLY WHEN ON DEPLOYMENTS, I WAS CREWMAN ON P-3 ORION MARITIME PATROL AIRCRAFT!
I hear them all the time.
@@45gunner i was a tech for the transmitters sk was on.
Why does the guy in the thumbnail look like a cross between an AT-AT driver and a Tie Fighter pilot?
AI made Im guessing?
Nuke-flash head-gear for pilots.
Lenses feature 'shutters' that respond to light levels.
Only worn by flight-crews operating in nuke environments.
no america pilots use a helmet like this
🤣🤣🤣
The pilot has a cleft pallet ?
Hey my good man. Not sure what's going on, but I'm not receiving notifications of when you post, and I'm subbed to all your channels. Anyone else having/had this problem? 🤔
I live on the English coast, the closest point to the French coast. Growing up, we had some serious wacky signals and this is something that's always fascinated me. There's a great channel called Ringway Manchester that give some great content on Number Stations etc. Great content as usual 👍
You woke up distant memory in me. Im a Finn from Helsinki, Estonia and Tallinn is situated right behind Baltic on the South, pretty much just like you and France. My grandpa worked his whole life in radio (Yleisradio, our BBC) as technician or mechanic in the link tower, and loved both tv & radio deeply, in all forms. He had the first Beta-video I ever saw, later he bought VHS too and used both daily. He set his tv to catch Soviet era Estonian tv, he even learned some Estonian from it, but he also tinkered with radios.
This is very faint memory, I must’ve been really small (prob 1980ish), but Im sure he phoned to one of his radio enthusiast buddies and said he heard something weird, coming from Estonia. There was a sense of urgency or discovery, unusual or weird things were going on. I wanna say he gave the “coordinates” (frequency?, no idea what they are called) over phone and told the other guy to check it out, almost like “can you hear it too?”, but this part Im not as sure. I only remember sitting on the kitchen floor with my puzzle and the slight worry, surprise or excitement in his voice.
What a weird, long buried memory decided to surface, thanks to your post! Now Im left wondering was he just really super into all things transmitting or was my mild mannered and stoic gramps possibly a spy :)
@@janemiettinen5176 Either way, that is a fascinating story and a great read. Get researching, Ringway has covered lots of different places. My Son Mika was named after a great flying Finn. Thanks for sharing 🙏
1:01 Such unidentified messages might be cheaper to produce than the calculated estimate of the expense that a desperate enemy may spend in intelligence personnel wasted on trying to decode the nonsense messages.
Dude. I LOVE THE RADIO TRANSMISSION VIDEOS ❤. When I originally found this channel, this was what captured me!
a lot of people wouldn't believe it, but Cuba has always been very adept at its human intelligence gathering or HUMINT.
they certainly took their KGB training and ran with it, so to speak
KGB Rules the (electronic) Waves.
I would say that the Cubans are light years ahead of the KGB. They got that country locked down. It's amazing how many tourists go there every year who are totally ignorant of it. When you enter the country they take a picture of you at the airport. They do that for a reason. They track everything and everyone.
"In 2012...."
These things have been on non-commercial frequencies _FOR DECADES!_ Cuba also used reel-to-reel and still does sometimes. It's funny to hear an old recording playing the voices BACKWARS.
I wish one day I bumped into this guy and recognised his voice.
The issue would be that this is his "broadcast voice," meaning that his casual, everyday voice would sound noticeably different. You wouldn't recognize him..
I wish I didn't have to back up 5 seconds throughout all of his videos to figure out what he said.
@@JarheadCrayonEatercmon, it's very easy to understand, even to non-native like me.
The channel was wayyyy better when it played the videos to dope trippy music and no voice narration
First one creeped me out to the point where I turned all my lights on and locked my door. Well done 👍
Worked with a guy who had been in a branch of the US armed forces... Army or Air Force, don't really remember as It's been 7 years ago...
Anyway, we were working in Illinois and he knew I was from Oklahoma. He asked if I had ever heard of a particular small town. I had heard if it and had actually been there.
He told me that he and a handful of members of his unit had been sent there to set up a listening post. Said they were there for a few weeks listening to radio traffic from another country... North Korea, China, someplace like that... Again, I don't remember.
But something about that area around that little town allowed them to receive a good enough signal to monitor comms from somewhere across the world.
Pretty wild stuff. I'll have to see if I can get ahold of that guy and fill in the details of my foggy memory.
Probably the "something" amounted to a good antenna system, decent radios & a site remote from all the RF interference generated by cities.🙂
Often used to determine shortwave radio conditions to various parts of the world during certain times of the day as well ....
unknown radio signals are my favorite mystery
Catch one from decades ago, good times
Yup, the video wasn't even in my notifications.
It wasn't even in my suggestions. I have ESP.
Most of them aren't, but this one was 🎉
“Skyking” is the callsign for all SIOP (Single Integrated Operations Plan) assets which includes nuclear capable bombers, missile silos, communications aircraft (e.g. E-6 Mercury and E-4 Nightwatch), and support aircraft and crews. These take higher priority over EAMs and Force Direction Messages. Because EAMs and FDMs cannot be decoded without the key, it’s impossible to determine if a message is an EAM or FDM. It’s also impossible to know if the encoded message is gibberish just meant to throw off hostile nations who might be listening all the way to a true nuclear launch order.
true.
3rd broadcast made my body feel fuzzy. 👀
Skyking transmissions are eerie and could preview series internationally problems developing.
i know of them from working there. wish i cold tell but i dont have permission.
@@anthonydewitt7674From someone in the IC please refrain from highlighting yourself.
I'm just happy that there are smart people out there who are keeping track of this stuff outside our closed government! I for one would want to know if something major was afoot. So thank you !
Dude that helmet looks rad no pun intended
This is a great video with an interesting topic!
I mean, all of your videos are interesting, but this one inspired me to leave a comment.
That is all.
my cats react to the intro, looking around before coming to sit nearby...
They know good content
“Underhanded espionage practices”? That’s like saying “frozen ice” or “illegal crime”.
Fascinating subject. Would love to learn more.
I love the number station videos! They fascinate me
Was a police dispatcher and if the conditions were right we’d get skip with all kinds of crazy stuff
The fact this dude is STILL making vids 10 years later....i used to binge watch you
Great video ❤
Number Stations can be creepy. One such movie that did a thing on them is called The Banshee Chapter.
My son is a US Navy Cryptographic Technician but unfortunately due to his clearance level he can't tell us anything he really does.
Been waiting for a new video worth it
as always great and entertaining content
I use to have fun with my dad's national radio that had 4 short wave bands. Usually late at night NZ time I'd plug in our tv aerial and grab a beer slowly go through the bands. I'd mainly pick up morse code, but I'd get some soviet code with female voices. Great fun after a late night at work.
Actress Lucille Ball picked up radio transmissions on her fillings that led to the capture of Japanese spies in California in 1942.
I remember listening to the number stations as a kid on my home made radio. Never knew what they were about but always fascinated me.
I've actually heard the Cuban lady very late at night in the middle of the Mojave desert on my AN/GRR-5....
No choice here- they’re all creepy. Thanks again for the great posts!
Came here for the Bleep blorp diddle diddle diddle.
Was not disappointed.
1:01 Not mysterious at all. That's a encrypted comm for embedded spies.
Love that picture of the PLZT Goggle on the thumbnail.
"Which of these broadcasts do you find to be the most creepy?"
Me: none of them.
In the 90's I was listening to the radio and it was interrupted by a guy with a weird voice reading number in spanish: Uno Dos Tres Quatro Cinqo Cinqo Seis
Was he pretty fly?
@RB20ANDY I bet he was really a white guy.
Heard the same code and wondered if he got a 13 Tattoo or 31?
Wooly Booly?
Oh yeah, I heard it too, what a coincidence! Gunter glieben glauchen globen, give it to me baby..
Thank you for making these videos for so many years 🫡
There were a few very mysterious and fascinating radio signals I heard as kid in the 1970s on our old Loewe Mallorca stereo tube trunk-console, a huge beasty, which had an FM/SW/MW/LW receiver. Fascinating stuff it was! There was especially one, that kept repeating the same very strange burst of a short weird melody, and then a long tone, and the melody repeated, but seemed to have small variations.
Ah yes, the "where are you dear general" song
RUclips unsubscribed me from your channel. I was actually walking through the sixth-floor museum in Dallas when you released the Kennedy video. You must have gotten a bit too close to the sun. Which part do you think got it nerfed, was it the babushka lady or the umbrella man, neither of which was mentioned in the museum. There was also a man outside of the museum with an enhanced image of mussel flashes coming from the grassy knoll, a video that has never circulated on the internet.
There was a more recent SKYKING message broadcast than the one you included in this video. It was broadcast on April 12 and I posted it to my channel a few days later.
Fun fact! The opening for Radio Pyongyang is called "Where are you, Dear General?"
Anything out of Cuba gives me pause - that’s a very dedicated, well-entrenched regime, always up to no good, which is why people continue to risk their lives to escape from it.
good to see you again buddy :')
13 missed calls from dad.
Or 1 missed call from mom
In before they change the thumbnail from a star wars looking mask to something like a plane
Okay, whoa, because I stumbled on one of these randomly while playing with a hand crank international radio I bought for storm/weather info (it has two weather channel features too). And i was scrolling across stations, and heard THIS. The woman, the spanish numbers, the tones.
Thanks love your videos what happened to Dark 5 Ancient Mysteries haven't seen it in a while.
The band Porcupine Tree uses a sample of number stations at the end of the track "Even Less", the writer Steve Wilson says there's something "spooky" about messages flying around us we cannot understand, it's so futile to think these could be coded messages to assinate someone or just a shopping list of supplies to be collected from an army store, who knows, they have a rhythm and an almost hypnotic trance like effect if you listen to them for too long.
Nothing the ccp does is "harmless" or 'inadvertent'.
Best channel on yt
I'm fond of the cheery sinister quality on "The Lincolnshire Poacher" myself.
My favorite RUclips channel :]
Can't beat a number stations vid...
Especially one from Dark5
The V15 station with that haunting music made the hair stand up on my neck.
I love your work. Thank you
Bro u just got a new subscriber!
Actually got a taped recording of hmo1 it's neat to see it's still running.
In southern Wisconsin you can pick it up around 4pm with a consumer grade shortwave radio receiver
I’ve always been really into radio communications. But I have always been kind of terrified of it at the same time
That feeling when you're getting your homework assignment broadcast and everyone thinks it's some sort of spy thing.
Back in the mid '70s, when I was in my early 'teens, I did a lot of Short-wave listening. I recall logging Hispanic Numeric Sequences. I no longer have my logbook, but I believe that the transmission was between 7mhz and 14mhz. I presumed that bait was some manner of Spy Broadcast, and I believe that an issue of "Popular Electronics" mentioned these broadcasts.
NORTH KOREA & RUSSIA wouldn't have the balls to launch ICBM's they know they'd be vaporised..
Good to hear your voice again darkman
Where can I find a radio good enough to listen to these??
Radio Shack
It's on shortwave radio
Listening to some of them. They seem like they're using an open line to send info for syncing a radio to a secret line.
Military radios have to be synced together to communicate.
Edit: i think im actually on to something. We would use a device called an ANCD. They required a certain code to be put in and it reminds me a lot of what theyre saying with the numbers stations
Would be useful to have the frequency of each of these channels listed and mode of transmission (AM, FM, USB, LSB etc).
Regarding the 'zombie' satelites as a radio ham we had one of our OSCAR satelites come back to life a few years ago but only whilst the solar panels were in sunlight so we realised the onboard batteries had gone open circuit and it was operating only by solar power as are the others.
AO-7 is my personal favorite zombie satellite, not least of all because of how we got it back: after it failed in the early 80s, Polish resistance fighters discovered it would sometimes work in sunlight, and used it to communicate with different cells across communist Poland and the west. Given that the government had seized most radio gear, and monitored everything, AO-7 was one of the only ways to freely communicate.
After the fall of the USSR, some resistance fighters wrote about it in their memoirs, and it was largely forgotten - until a ham read them in 2002, realized the implications, and did some tests to determine that it still worked! AMSAT made an announcement, and to this day it’s one of the oldest working satellites up there.