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
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!
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.
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
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 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..
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
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.
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
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 🙏
"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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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 !
“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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
TH-cam 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?
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
I miss the music.
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
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
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
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.
Ringway Manchester. He's covered all of these already. He's a really good source of info for this stuff.
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
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..
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.
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.
Right up my alley. I find number stations fascinating!
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"
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
Duuuude! I never unsubscribed from your channel! So good to see you again!
I’m gonna make “do not answer” my voice mail message. 🙂
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
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
That's a crazy looking thumbnail. I love it!
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.
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'.
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 🙏
One of my favourite channels of all time!
Dude. I LOVE THE RADIO TRANSMISSION VIDEOS ❤. When I originally found this channel, this was what captured me!
"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 LOVE when you do Number Stations and mysterious signal vids!
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.
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.
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 🎉
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 ?
First one creeped me out to the point where I turned all my lights on and locked my door. Well done 👍
Came here for the Bleep blorp diddle diddle diddle.
Was not disappointed.
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.
unknown radio signals are my favorite mystery
Catch one from decades ago, good times
Often used to determine shortwave radio conditions to various parts of the world during certain times of the day as well ....
3rd broadcast made my body feel fuzzy. 👀
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.
my cats react to the intro, looking around before coming to sit nearby...
They know good content
Dude that helmet looks rad no pun intended
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
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.
I used to listen to these numbers stations as a kid on my shortwave radio.
Fascinating subject. Would love to learn more.
Great video ❤
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.🙂
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.
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.
Love that picture of the PLZT Goggle on the thumbnail.
Actress Lucille Ball picked up radio transmissions on her fillings that led to the capture of Japanese spies in California in 1942.
I love the number station videos! They fascinate me
Ah yes, the "where are you dear general" song
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 !
"Which of these broadcasts do you find to be the most creepy?"
Me: none of them.
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.
In before they change the thumbnail from a star wars looking mask to something like a plane
No choice here- they’re all creepy. Thanks again for the great posts!
“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.
Been waiting for a new video worth it
My son is a US Navy Cryptographic Technician but unfortunately due to his clearance level he can't tell us anything he really does.
That feeling when you're getting your homework assignment broadcast and everyone thinks it's some sort of spy thing.
1:01 Not mysterious at all. That's a encrypted comm for embedded spies.
I've actually heard the Cuban lady very late at night in the middle of the Mojave desert on my AN/GRR-5....
Those are badass. I love the allure of old world tech and the hidden in plain sight.
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.
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..
I love your work. Thank you
Can't beat a number stations vid...
Especially one from Dark5
Was a police dispatcher and if the conditions were right we’d get skip with all kinds of crazy stuff
13 missed calls from dad.
Or 1 missed call from mom
The fact this dude is STILL making vids 10 years later....i used to binge watch you
Fascinating subjec
My favorite TH-cam channel :]
Thanks love your videos what happened to Dark 5 Ancient Mysteries haven't seen it in a while.
good to see you again buddy :')
NOW THIS IS DARK 5!!!
Thank you for making these videos for so many years 🫡
“Underhanded espionage practices”? That’s like saying “frozen ice” or “illegal crime”.
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.
That was so good I subscribed.
I don't answer mysterious radio signals...never have never will
Why
@@metrunacan give away your position
@@gregs7519 yeah I think about it… so the (barely) safer is only reply who you know?
I think the two old sat lights coming back to life is the most interesting.
Nothing the ccp does is "harmless" or 'inadvertent'.
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I would have thought Tequila to be a more appropriate phonetic!
Where can I find a radio good enough to listen to these??
Radio Shack
It's on shortwave radio
Some of these are HF some are VHF so just a good shortwave radio with VHF capability
Number Stations can be creepy. One such movie that did a thing on them is called The Banshee Chapter.
A college, in Atlanta, has a radio station that is obviously broadcasting encrypted code in a techno type "music". It's very strange suspicious...
Fun fact! The opening for Radio Pyongyang is called "Where are you, Dear General?"
Whats the freak Kennith? 'It's way freakier that you would ever want :O '
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.
Jesus Loves You
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 satellite that's been in orbit since 1965 suddenly coming to life is kinda weird.
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Bro u just got a new subscriber!