Secret Shortwave Signals That Remain An Unsolved Mystery
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The numbers stations in this video were some of the most elusive.
Many numbers stations fit a certain criteria which made them easy to classify, even enabling listeners to identify their country of origin.
While some of what you’re about to hear shared characteristics with known stations, there were subtle differences that mean that to this day, they have never been identified.
As if they never existed...
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I really appreciate you sharing these. I remember so many odd transmissions from the 90s when I was a security guard in a remote small town at a barrel plant. My co-worker and best friend and I spent many night shifts searching and listening to crazy shortwave broadcasts. I have many of them on cassette tape. I had a radio shack brand transceiver that you could record with a tape on. So many great memories. Thank you once again.
You need to share those recordings with Lewis here.
@@DCDura I I’ll need to do some diggin. I’ll put that on my to do list.
@@areaone3813 You may have some rare gems.
@@areaone3813 yeah please do try to get them digitised, it would be super intersting to hear them, even if we can't pinpoint what they are.
Success‼️ I found the box of tapes and my old boom box actually works for now. Can anyone give me some direction on the best way to record to digital with just boom box? Use a cellphone would be my guess.
Back in the 70's I worked for a famous UK electronics company, one of the projects I worked on was a very small 8 channel crystal controlled Superhet receiver Battery operated. It was an MOD contract so may have been for secret transmissions. One of the frequencies you mentioned rang a bell with me.
Thanks for supporting Ukraine, much respect.
Hi!
As a native Hungarian speaker myself i can confirm that G20 definitely originated from Hungary. The accent and pronunciation gave it away way too much. It's a very bad attempt at speaking German.
Also the number 0 is "null" in german but in Hungarian we use both "nulla" and "zéró" for the number 0. The number sequence at the end is "zéró, acht, zéró, zéró = 0,8,0,0" That's another give away, alongside the butchered pronunciation.
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I and others have noted that the accent of the male speaker of G20 is identical to that of G3 (the Tyrolean Music Station). There are several conflicting reports about the source of the Tyrolean Music Station, none of which are conclusive. You say that that G20 accent is definitely Hungarian. Could a South Tyrolean accent be similar?
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Hi there!
No, these 2 accents are not similar. South Tyrolean would be a native Italian speaker trying to speak Austrian German (as far as i know).
I recognize a Hungarian voice who tries to speak German which never learned the language from miles away.
The Hungarian accent when they try to speak English and German are very noticeable because of our unique language and pronunciation of some of the letters. I never heard any other language which can say "zéró" this clearly and butcher the german word for 3 - "drei" this nicely at the same time.
(We Hungarians speak to clearly and pronounce every letter, which makes it hard to speak and read on other languages.)
Also i cannot confirm that G04 is Hungarian or not because that's an automated voice and no accents can be recognised.
I am hungarian as well, G20 definitely is a hungarian speaker and G3 is not, based on the accent.
:)
Man these recordings are creepy as hell when youre driving at night
Simon Mason is still alive? Wow, I read his articles back in the 80’s! Please see if he would do an interview video with you. He is a legend for SWL numbers stations. 📻
Love that you included the most famous Allo Allo station in your comment said it all . But all I hear is a stick banging on the floor and madam fanny shouting "the flashing knobs!!"
Brilliant as always Lewis.
The three tone signal for G04 reminds me very much of the signal that you used to get in Germany in the past when you called a landline phone number that was not in service.
Same in Slovenia. It usually said “this number is not available” tur ru rut!
Similar tone in the USA as well. Some people also point out that's its a tri-tone (as is the not in service sound), which tend to sound creepy and catch someone's attention, so some people think its an intentional choice.
When I was a kid I remember the Italian number station. It would always broadcast in the afternoons after school got out at 3pm pst. If I heard the music of it I recognise it. I used to listen for the music piece they played. It was a classical one and sadly this was before shazam so I never learned the name. It was realy clear if I pointed my antenna east on the old handheld radio I had. Im pretty sure it was Italian language at least in 2000s because it wasnt Portuguese or Spanish.
This is the first place to go to, for real information about the world of radio communication.
I found this video very interesting. Could I just make a suggestion for this type of video in the future? I found that I had to pause fairly frequently to read the text info, because the content of the narration and the on-screen text was different, so it’s difficult to pay attention to them both at three same time. If I could offer some advice, text like at 11:01 could be on-screen during the playback of the recording, as the recordings are there more to give an example of the broadcasts, rather than to convey information. Just a suggestion - but otherwise, very interesting.
This is a great suggestion. Its useful when giving presentations to remember that reading and listening activate the same areas of the brain so you shouldnt make your targets try to do both at once since they probably wont do either well.
@@RowanHawkins Thanks. I hope it comes across in the comment that I don’t want to seem like this is a negative criticism of the video. I found this very interesting.
The three notes one happens to use the same 3 notes as at the beginning of the recording where the lady says,
"We're sorry,
But the number you dialed has been disconnected or is no longer in service.
Please check the number and try your call again
"
Thanks for the effort you put into these videos👍
Another awesome compilation - thank you 😀
Here across the pond I have a couple local VHF and UHF unidentified stations that I cannot find FCC licenses for but sound like not just interference, they sound like some sort of data modulation and one or 2 morse code. One is 400 MHz even.
For what it’s worth, I am of the opinion that Spruchnummer is French, perhaps operated by the SDECE as there are a lot of similarities to the Tyrolean music station which I believe was also confirmed to be an SDECE station. The announcers sound virtually identical to my ears. That’s just my opinion though.
I'd really like to learn more about the old radio metallica worldwide station, dr tornado, etc. It's still the reason I always scan just below 40m anytime I have the radio on :)
Always fascinating content, provided in a concise interesting format. This is how RUclips should be done.
Thank's for another interesting video! 🙂
Outstanding my friend.
Great video & very interesting. Was it just me, or did other people have a lot more adverts interrupting the video than usual?
Those are not adverts. They are coded messages.
Piccadilly radio was pretty unknown in Manc
Rubbish! Piccadilly Radio was very popular in Manchester!
Another good one. Can I suggest you do a story on the Russian Diplo Service signals designated as X06 we hear and their various digital mode links that are associated with them.
Hello rodge another good bit of info rodge
The "Three Not Oddity" sounds like what you would hear in the olden days when you called a disconnected telephone number.
I was going through some old amateur QSL cards, and saw lots of that same unmistakable dot matrix printer font you show a few times on this video ... that really takes me back to the '80s.
I'm asking from a place of total ignorance - and complete fascination: how is it that these numbers stations are not identified ? Do they not reside in buildings that can be pinpointed and occupants identified ? These videos started appearing in my feed and I am now trying to learn more about numbers stations.
In some cases, the exact locations are often in private properties or are in government buildings. Some are even in the middle of nowhere (why would you want to drive out there) and even if you did you'd probably find electric fences and such.
Now if you're referring to why these mysterious ones aren't known, that's easy; you have to have a consistent frequency being used constantly or consistently to locate it.
I wonder if, on a timeline, these short lived transmissions could be correlated with known international spook 'operations '?
E24 - Allo Allo - Listen very carefully, I will say this only once.....
This is nighthawk calling 😂
You're SO interesting in your videos. I love when you post a video and click right away!
Not sure if you made them but those drone shots of the antenna towers and wind turbines are awesome! Very cool. 😎
All footage is mine :) cheers
brilliant love it
Very interesting!
The 3 tones at 07:35 sound like a ‘telephone disconnected tone’ but a few tones lower
At least one was located near Magdeburg and the voice was nicknamed 'Magdeburg Mary,' another was known to be in the Harz Mountains: Eine, Swei, Null, Null, Sax // Drei Fumf Acht, Seiben Drei // ad infinitum. Her monotonous voice was good for helping you nod off, but who the transmissions were directed at as far as I am aware was never discovered. It was believed they were a one time code broadcasting a group of five numbers, then the next group of five. What was camouflage and what was the real traffic was also never ascertained as far as I am aware.
It's got me thinking that the "Hitler's Birthday" station could be because the date is 4/20 in the American numbering system. 4/20 is code for cannabis. It's not rare for U.S.A. based pirates to have special broadcasts on that day.
4/20 association has only been for the last 10 years or so. The Station in question was in the late 90's if I recall.
Remember, if a recording doesn't exist it likely pre-dated smartphones. Every phone has a way to record audio and anyone reporting numbers stations now has a fast way to do audio or for the last 10 years or so IQ recordings which characterize the signal far more than a simple audio recording.
@@RowanHawkins420 has been slang for for decades. I was in middle school in the 90s and we all knew what 420 meant back then. I distinctly remember in 6th grade (1996) a teacher saying her birthday was 4/20 we all thought it was hysterical.
@@RowanHawkins420 goes back to the 60s
Loved the Allo Allo series in my early and pre-teens.
This is very cool, wished I was around and got into shortwave sooner!
Fantastic.
as number stations weren't mysterious enough now we had unsolved ones, and that made me scared a bit
this would be a good addition to the Conet project
Im loving this spooky intro music, its making me feel nostalgic for oddsworld abes Odyssey
Wery interesting channel👍
I've been late to comment on your last 5 videos(October is a busy month for me with birthdays, an anniversary, parties, passing out candy because they took the time, it's the least I can do... Plus the wife n dogs love kids)
But I just gotta say, these videos have been awesome!
Again not a radio guy(well I've been using 915mhz playing with LoRa, but that's my computers talking to each other or to microcontrollers with sensors) and I really enjoy these...
I hope someday you do a SDR or just radios and computers you don't need a license for video... Or a "what it takes to become an operator in (UK, US, and wherever most your viewers are), as *ID REALLY LOVE THOSE VIDEOS* but I won't hold my breath.. just hope you'd make em... Yeah others have, but I love your channel, trust it, and enjoy how you make your videos...
As this channel is the reason I even recently decided to play with LoRa radio modules, and keep thinking about dropping the cash into a meshtastic setup(even though you never have talked about it.. a way to communicate using phones without buying SIM cards/subscriptions for old n current phones, or using homemade electronic devices to get the messages n send them... Pretty cool IMO)
Sorry long winded half off topic half "please make these videos" comment
When I really just also wanna say thanks for making the videos you do
But also I'm engaging videos for algorithm, and to let others into diy communications know about LoRa
But still thanks... This channel is slowly bringing me into the fold... And before it did... It still was awesome enough that a person uninterested and unknowledgeable about radios could watch and keep up..
Till they made me wanna become more knowledgeable and even mess around with adding radios to my favorite hobby (electronics, computers, networking) and adding some radio stuff to my projects..
So I know how wet my garden is, the temperature and a bunch of other stuff, without walking outside, and just checking a webpage that puts all the data updated(every hour) in one place...
So I'm slowly getting there...
Thinking about buying some handhelds soon...
One day I'll get my license...
And all from this channel...
Thank you for every video! And making them for radio experts to Novices to "knowing only what an antenna does" people...
The whole social radio spectrum
No one cares
@@AbbasAhmed-wl8bu ok.. it's engagement with the video... Meaning the algorithm will see that people who watch comment and thus it's something to show others
So if no one cares it doesn't bother me
Tho I appreciate you engaging my comment... Makes these videos go further
So reply with how little you care
@@JaykPuten tell us a cool story no one cares what you had for lunch
@@AbbasAhmed-wl8bu a long long time ago, back when nabu was under an attack
I remember me and qui qon gin, tried to talk the federation in...to maybe cutting them a little slack
Their response it didn't thrill us
They locked the door and tried to kill us
...
...
We were saying bye bye little Anakin guy
Maybe Vader, someday later, now he's just a small fry
Here's to you Mrs. Robinson, heaven holds a place for those who pray
Hey hey hey
If birds over rainbows, why oh why then, can't I?
And while I was suffocating from hypoxia, and hallucinating from a 105°f fever, I remember slowly losing all my worries...
The last being of hanging on for the sake of my wife... So I looked at that... Colorless, almost black hole person shaped thing, that even light didn't escape from, and saying "I.. ok... I'll give up"
Till I woke with a broken rib and the doctor saying "he's been out 5 minutes... He should be..."
And the nurse replied "who cares what he had for lunch? I was about to ask his family if he's an organ donor"
"You should still ask, he'll not show brain activity "
And as I flipped him the bird, he said "can he hear me? Sir I said I DONT CARE WHAT YOU HAD FOR LUNCH! you would normally have been dead 5 minutes, you're lucky I didn't declare it... So no one really cares you had bird for lunch!"
@@AbbasAhmed-wl8buobviously you care. You have taken time out of your busy RUclips channel to make a comment that nobody really cares about. See the irony there? 😂
What's up with E24 and E26?
Like just a name and image and not really any explanation to it...
The three tones on G04 reminds me of the song "Nachrichten" by Kraftwerk from theyer 1975 album "Radio-Aktivität" where they played a bunch of different radio stations over one another. It could be a simplified version of one of the jingles you here there.
Thanks for this, fascinating. The inflection of E27 sounds possibly Estonian to me.
superb
Oh yeah keep them coming
Has the purpose of Enigma XM/Whales/Backwards Music Station ever been determined?
If the outro music here exists as a full track, I would love to listen to it. Is there a link to it somewhere? If it doesn’t exist, it needs to be finished… I think it’s brilliant.
G20 is a Hungarian speaking German. At least that is what this - pretty unmistakable - accent sounds like.
I've been looking for ages for the crazy repetitive trumpet tune That used to be found at various M.W frequencies towards the late 1970's.
This is why I watch !
Even more mysterious
Sounds like coded messages for certain ops however limited they can change whenever they want would be interested to find out if any have been decoded
Wow I had no ide of the volume of the clandestine broadcast stations that there were!
Regarding G23 -- I wonder if it said:
*_"Mein Fuhrer! I can walk!!"_* 😉
For those that do not know, those are the last spoken words -- minus the closing theme -- from the EXCELLENT Stanley Kubrick film, *DR. STRANGELOVE (Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb),* released in 1964.
No fighting in the War Room!
@@nowster"How many times have I told you boys, no messin' around on the airplane!"
*_"...we don't really want to start a nuclear war unless we absolutely have to..."_* 😉
*EDIT→* One more...😊
*_"WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL THE WORLD, EH?!"_*
10:02 dont rule out Lichtenstein 😂
10:04 The male voice has Czech accent, so we could exclude Switzerland and Austria.
I thought it was Czech too however a lot of native Hungarian speakers here in the comments are adamant that it's a Hungarian speaking German.
Off topic,but I recall hearing on recall hearing on AM radio years ago a odd warbling sound. Turns out it was the planet Jupiter with it's very fast rotation generating radio frequencies.At least that what Ive read.
I wonder if the point of the music preamble is that you can leave the radio on loud while you go about your day, and then quickly rush to put in headphones when the transmission starts?
3 Note Oddity has a very similar tone pattern to the US POTS DTMF Tone system when you dial a bad number that is not in service. DO DEEE DAH - Were sorry, but the number you have dialed is either disconnected or not in service.
whats the name of music at the begining
My guess is that these messages were meant for the Paraguayan Submarine Forces.
I dont know why but these are spooky for me to listen😂.
G20 is clearly a Hungarian speaking german
@8:00 "Zwo", "Fünnef" 😂 In case you wonder that means 2 5
You can always COUNT on _some_ NUMBER STATIONS being unidentifiable.
{Please don't hit me...😉}
Whats the tune at the start of the video?
When I was kid I found a numbers station as was extremely confused.
I'd get weird messages on pay phones too
The one deemed to come from Central Asia, the voice had a very Iranian accent to my ears.
Austrian here, G20 doesn't sound like austrian or swiss german to me
I agree. I'm English but lived in Austria and Germany. Sounds Czech to me.
What about really spooky signals !
1:47 But sometimes they pronounced differently to ensure perfect word comprehensibility.
German number stations says "fünnef" instead "fünf" and "neuen" instead "neun".
Based on the very distinctive tones, it seems clear that the Three-Note Oddity was operated by the American Telephone & Telegraph Corporation.
if it is hard to locate and just shows up occrasionly, it might origin from a spy ship.
I think you're right. If I were trying to reach my spies without giving away my transmitting source, I would definitely use mobile units. Otherwise, your transmitting location would be discovered in a matter of days, if not hours. I would be transmitting the same signal from several different mobile locations at the same time. Actually, I think that since 1990, most of these signals are decoys to keep adversarial governments busy monitoring them. Let's face it, since the downfall of the Soviets, most European countries don't even have spy networks. Today there are much easier and cheaper ways to get info to spies. When was the last time that you heard in the news about someone being caught with a one-shot code pad?
I always wondered if the numbers groups referred to a "Person" and a "Dead Drop" pickup/meet location
A bit like an Espionage version of Fred, Goto these What3Words
Im going to purchase a good, portable shortwave radio with a range from 1.6 though 25 megahertz!! That's all there is to it.
I can hardly understand a single word or the numbers they're saying. Being a secret agent in those days must have been a tough job.
Wow I’m behind on the times.
Numbers stations? What are these?
(Now scrolling your channel to learn more)
Me too lol
Given that the sound quality of most of these stations is so poor, how could the people for whom the messages were intended understand them?
Presumably the intended recipients were closer to the transmitters than the guys in UK recording all this stuff.
@@RCAvhstape Makes sense.
Depends on the objective of the broadcast ie resources may have been sent to detect/ track the broadcast moving them away from actual mission actors.
Many local police and fire agencies around me use the 1948 AARL alphabet, I do not know why though
Do the Three Note Oddity and German Gong & Bells both share the same prerecorded speech system?
Yes, Sprach-Morse-Maschine
this one sounds like those SIT tones you hear when you try to dial a wrong formatted code lol. doo doing ding, the number you have dialed, is not in the correct format, please hang up, and try your call again. something like that but instead of that intercept, a string of numbers lol.
Does anyone else think that the reader for EV01 sounded South Asian? My guess is Pakistani (for context I'm of Indian origin). The bad quality of the sound made it hard for me to confirm but at least to my ear that's what it sounded like.
The way they spoke the word "India" sounded to me like an Indian persons accent, is Urdu read right to left?
@@matt.willoughby yes, Urdu is read right to left, like Arabic
The voice sounded South African to me, thick Afrikaans accent.
Achtung Achtung Ende Ende …….. ich bin direkt an dem ehemaligen Eisernen Vorhang. Very close to the Former CSSR ans GDR border.
I’d really love you to stare down the conet project and have them prove their copyright 😂
I listening to them back in the 1970's
Starting at about 07:33 in this video:
After the three tones, I was expecting to hear an automated message that starts *_"We're sorry..."_*
That sounds something like a standard {USA?} automated landline telephone message you get when you misdial a phone number, or a phone number is no longer in service. Really.
It's called a Special Information Tone (SIT) and is defined by ITU-T standards.
Is it just me... Or is it super creepy, that people would randomly broadcast numbers on air!!!
Like the whole, Numbers to probably send a hidden message..... Whats so private, air'd over transmission, that it needs to be hidden in code?!?!
Creeps me out lol
Has no one ever come forward who used to operate these stations? You'd think there'd be a few people willing to talk this long after the collapse of communism.
Secrecy is drilled into people who do espionage and intelligence work like you can’t believe. I recently heard a short talk by someone who was involved in doing interviews with folks who were involved in the anti-apartheid movement during the 70s and 80s. They said people who were involved in things like helping people to cross borders to get away from state security. But, the moment you ask them questions pertaining to things like how members of their organisation communicated or who came up with a particular idea, they just clam up. It’s decades since they were involved in that work and many of the people they worked with are long gone, but the reflexive instinct to protect the organisation is still so deeply ingrained that they won’t talk about something that was considered sensitive information 40+ years ago.
Yes. There have been a few, mainly from West German operators broadcasting into the Soviet Union.
6:40 it sounds a bit like "czenglish", anyone has the same opinion?
The transmission which broadcast "Ender Ender" could that be Danish Security ?
Uploaded 4 minutes ago, I'm impressed by myself.
Hmm 2mins in looks like the masts in Bolton near the m61? 8.25 we know where that is lol
The antenna videos often have nothing to do with the text of this program. They're just beautiful, not necessarily relevant.
Many of the antenna photos are for VHF and UHF stations, but the program is about HF stations. VHF and UHF antennas are more photogenic, though, than a simple wire dipole or long wire.
ev01 seems to have a khazastani accent to me.
Twelve days back, YT, what the f? I pressed the bell to receive updates on new videos from RUclips, not to receive notifications at your convenience (12 days later).
There is no information about E24 Allo Allo?
Nothing at all
I assume you had to be listening very carefully as they said things only once.
Ev01 sounds like Dr No
Do any number stations still exist?
Yes lots do
G20 sounds like a native Italian speaker speaking German