this is the best channel on youtube, period. its like mystery stories channels but these mysteries are real and everyone with antenna and sdr can immerse into this. and the pirate radio stories, the technical side, well, everything. thank you, man!
I don't have any listening gear but I find this channel completely engrossing. Like a little peek into the cold war, spies, weirdos and so on. Nice one.
That final track sounds like a mix of very-slowed-down-music from the movie "Forbidden Planet" and German numbers taken from Kraftwerk's track called "Numbers" on the disc "Computer World". While Kraftwerk used a particular and popular voice chip, the inflections in the number pronunciation, pitches, reverb and rhythms were of their own....craftsmanship.
The last station gives me the same feeling of eerieness that I got from listening to Dad's shortwave radio when I was a kid in the 1960s. The drones, squeals, thumps, clicks, and alien voices (SSB on an AM receiver) in between the normal-sounding AM broadcasters gave me the feeling that "there's something out there." So of course I got a ham radio license. I wanted to be part of that something.
This reminds me of something I used to do when I lived overseas. I knew my communications were being intercepted. I took a page of random numbers from the CRC mathematical handbook and faxed it back to the U.S. There are probable code breakers to this day trying to figure out my communications.
@@RCAvhstape I'd guess staying mobile would be it. Or even funnier yet, put up the needed gear on a weather balloon that can stay aloft for a week or so.
@@KeystoneInvestigations do you know what her preferred "love language" is? If you're being serious there's some books out there built on this premise, that seems to have helped thousands of couples out tremendously. Might be worth checking out
Number stations are so interesting to me. I just find it so cool how all of this has the creep vibe attached to it without even trying. CB AM UHF is something i should have gotten into because it goes hard as fuck
It's an old English folk tune, called "The Lincolnshire Poacher" - hence the name of the station. The Yanks stole the tune for the Civil Disagreement song. Much like your Graduaion song is actually our National Anthem :D
@@davidkgame Actually, the piece we typically use for University graduations is a looped excerpt from Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance No 1, not God Save the King. We did rip that off, though simply to reset it as a patriotic song for reasons I still cannot fathom.
YES! Number stations are getting creepier!!! YESSSSSS!! I love this shit. Question, if I just want to hear number stations in real time, able to explore the different frequencies, what's the minimum hardware I need? Will I need a huge antenna just to pick them up properly? I don't need to broadcast, I just want to be able to freely explore.
I believe that there is an online ‘digital’ radio frequency tuner website. You can also find information relating to the frequency of know numbers stations, along with the time such frequencies are due to broadcast
The last bit sounds a bit like Delia Derbyshire's music and a German Speak n Spell. Specifically reminded me of her track "Falling", from The Dreams (1964)
I speak German fluently myself. Even that voice was creepy, along with that music. However, the one video where you showed the atom alarm, where it said, “Würstchen Alpha, hier ist Würstchen alpha eins. Atomalarm, Atomalarm” was strange, but also kind of funny. It just, didn’t really make sense. Then again, many shortwave transmissions out there.
what a bummer! You put the decrypted sentences on screen without reading them aloud. I can't see the screen as I am totally blind, which means I am left out. I would really appreciate it if you could bear this in mind for future videos, and put any onscreen text into the comments or description fields. TIA
I read in an article that Russian forces in Ukraine still use Morse code over open & unencrypted wireless radio. I don't know if you could physically pick that up without a huge antenna but that might make for an interesting video
I love the closing audio reminds me of signalwave/ broken transmission niche genre of music. This channel is a rabbithole of a very niche interest of mine about shortwave. I have a cheap shortwave receiver which got me by from boredom last December 2021 after we had a month long power outage as an aftermath of being struch by a cat 4 typhoon in central Philippines. All I got were mainstream broadcasts of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, BBC and Filipino shortwave stations.
If you have been to a live Kraftwerk concert in the last 20 years or so, the weird tones in that last station match what comes out of their PA for several minutes before they take the stage. The spoken numbers are one of the computer voices that opens their song "Numbers". Based on that, the station was probably put together by a Kraftwerk fan.
The gongs and chimes is heavily influenced by Kraftwerk. The DVD of the live concert Minimum - Maximum plays a sound very similar to this during the DVD menu. It's a slowed down version of the sound from the menu minus the speech synthesizer. The speech synthesizer is also the one Kraftwerk used on the song "Numbers"
speaking of Rabbit Holes--there is one over in Manchester. laughing fit to cry... especially the Gongs and Chimes parody. If you mixed the Gongs and chimes with Attenttion-69 that would be perfect. Makes a person want to go out and do something in your wacky radio world. Thanks for the entertainment.
The 1st/last one is awesome! The TTS voice is the same one used in Numbers by Kraftwork. As for the tones in the background, it sounds like a preset from one of waves synth vst's. It's either from Flowmotion or Codex.
Back in 2006, I caught the very end of a number station in SSB that appeared to be live. I heard somewhere that many of these strange number stations are connected with drug smuggling and other illegal activity?
@jeffk7734 espionage has always been the main thing I heard for numbers stations that only go to plain text with the one time pad of the person receiving the message. I haven't ever heard drug trafficking, and while I wouldn't be terribly surprised, most of these guys probably have pgp set up for them
As several people already pointed out, the last example uses the synthetic speech from Kraftwerk's "Numbers". However, the tones in the background also come from Kraftwerk. They can be heard on various bootleg recordings of some of their live concerts from the 2000s (example: v=LDfTrAhdvGE ) during the show pre-intro as filler sound used for ambiance. And as someone else mentioned, it can also be heard on the Minimum-Maximum DVD in the menus. And as a bonus, their old website played the tones on the landing page, but sped up quite a bit.
The last one's tones are the sounds that Kraftwerk use as the opening of their live concerts, before the music starts. I've heard that same sound when I went to one of their concerts, as well as on a bootleg of one of their concerts. The numbers themselves sound sampled from the track "Numbers". Actually, the audio might be samples entirely from the same bootleg recording of a concert I have XD
The midi music station you mention makes me think, I'd assume it'd be trivial to use some degital mode to send midi control messages over the radio, have people recieve the Ikea equivalent of music to play on their own devices. Not that you'd catch me playing pirate music like that, but it'd be interesting to know how well it works.
15:16 is straight outta this video: th-cam.com/video/r7miXlC0C_s/w-d-xo.html It's the Golf Tip guy from the "cursed" Gold Tip number, which was nothing but a test recording from the number's former owner left behind because he did not pay his bill.
In the 80s when I was at secondary school my mate and neighbors Dad used to park his Artic cab outside their house and we would hide in the cab trolling and abusing CB radio users, who took it seriously enough to drive around hunting us
That one with the Mexican food is interesting. Actually reminds me of one that somehow made its way on to the FM band, with the message, "Pizza Hut / Pizza Hut / Kentucky Fried Chicken /Pizza Hut."
At the beginning of the Ukrainian war I would go onto a Web based SDR (I hope I'm using the right terminology here as I'm not a radiohead) - and I came across some Asian station that might have been from Pyongyang - the music had this nightmarish surreal, distorted, potemkin village false upbeat sense to it. Your intro reminded me of that now
There are so many interesting things to listen to on the radio. It's a pity that I can't listen to the radio because I live in a multi-story panel house.
touching in again about the 'cousin of the buzzer' freq. on 8365 kHz USB the same tone can be heard on 4365 & 6365 kHz, same mode, and can be heard at certain times of the day intermittently (used the twente sdr to listen in) little to no info is out on it, i would love to see the community find out more of what it is cheers mate
Yooo, I wanna know more about that MIDI Radio station. That honestly seems like the kind of thing I'd do if I had the equipment. (Though, maybe I'd do CMF Radio, instead…)
Have you had any success using modern noise reduction techniques on these recordings? Spectral noise removal in izotope RX is really good I haven’t tried it on radio though
this is the best channel on youtube, period. its like mystery stories channels but these mysteries are real and everyone with antenna and sdr can immerse into this. and the pirate radio stories, the technical side, well, everything. thank you, man!
I don't have any listening gear but I find this channel completely engrossing. Like a little peek into the cold war, spies, weirdos and so on. Nice one.
FR
😮😅@@mbenn8168
Can't believe even numbers stations have shitposters.
That final track sounds like a mix of very-slowed-down-music from the movie "Forbidden Planet" and German numbers taken from Kraftwerk's track called "Numbers" on the disc "Computer World". While Kraftwerk used a particular and popular voice chip, the inflections in the number pronunciation, pitches, reverb and rhythms were of their own....craftsmanship.
Das is Richtig, mein Herr. 😅
Drop the Chalupa! 😅
The Voice of Laryngitis went off when
the transmitter went to an ENT doctor. 😅
the noises before the numbers sound like the sounds at the beginning of the track "electric cafe"
Yes, now that you mention it, the footsteps of the id monster.
That fake number station with the Hispanic guy having a Tourettes episode is hilarious.
"Eat me! Eat me!"
why did i think tourettes too 😭😭
Idk @@vlvexx
@@genericcatz go do something with ur life
@@vlvexx what did i do?
The last station gives me the same feeling of eerieness that I got from listening to Dad's shortwave radio when I was a kid in the 1960s. The drones, squeals, thumps, clicks, and alien voices (SSB on an AM receiver) in between the normal-sounding AM broadcasters gave me the feeling that "there's something out there."
So of course I got a ham radio license. I wanted to be part of that something.
😂ikr 73, kq4hcu
The last one, the gong and chimes one, the numbers in German sound like the German counting in the Kraftwerk song "Numbers" / "Nummern".
And these radio emitions are spreading thru the universe representing us all, no wonder no one wants to come 😂
Brilliant we should be scary
@ljubomirculibrk4097 I think I'm detecting deliberate usage of the words "spreading" and "come". Well done
@@ljubomirculibrk4097 radio ejaculations, one might say
Yeah, they’re this clear here, imagine the signal quality at Beta Eridani
@@CaritasGothKaraoke They would be far less clear the farther away you are.
The Bangalore Poacher one cracks me up. Probably some guy in the GTA having some fun. 🍁😁
That sounds like a combination of the East German Gong station and electronic music pioneer’s Kraftwerk with their song
“ Numbers “
Good to hear some Kraftwerk 😊
Number Stations,,,,,,,,Non Stop!
Numbers non stop. Agent pop! 😊😊
Radio activity in the air for you and me
she's a 10 and she's looking good
i'd like to hone her beacon that is understood
@@s90210h for beauty we will pay!
This reminds me of something I used to do when I lived overseas. I knew my communications were being intercepted. I took a page of random numbers from the CRC mathematical handbook and faxed it back to the U.S. There are probable code breakers to this day trying to figure out my communications.
These recordings make me want to make my own fake numbers station. Let's see... I have my old speech synthesizer for my TI-99/4a... let's do this! :D
Also it's super easy-peasy to do in VCV Rack using a modern computer.
You just need a transmitter and a way to avoid getting caught and sent to jail.
@@RCAvhstape I'd guess staying mobile would be it. Or even funnier yet, put up the needed gear on a weather balloon that can stay aloft for a week or so.
@aarong9378 There is a numbers station project for the raspberry pi zero. Think it only works on FM though.
I leave faked coded messages online periodically.
The video title doesn't lie. I walked away terrified. No sleep tonight for this guy. 🙂 Greetings from Arizona.
I love all these videos and you are one of the reasons i have gotten into amature radio and history of pirate radio stations ect
I love stuff like this! Motivates me to get on the radio and listen.
OOOOOOORGASM
The predecessor to pornhub.🤣
No help from my wife in that area! ☹
@@KeystoneInvestigations do you know what her preferred "love language" is?
If you're being serious there's some books out there built on this premise, that seems to have helped thousands of couples out tremendously. Might be worth checking out
death grips reference
It's also awkward that it's a guy poorly speaking in a falsetto voice.. 😂
Number stations are so interesting to me. I just find it so cool how all of this has the creep vibe attached to it without even trying. CB AM UHF is something i should have gotten into because it goes hard as fuck
The song at 14:06 is a US Civil War song called "The New York Volunteer." Tennessee Ernie Ford has a good recording of it.
It's an old English folk tune, called "The Lincolnshire Poacher" - hence the name of the station. The Yanks stole the tune for the Civil Disagreement song. Much like your Graduaion song is actually our National Anthem :D
@@davidkgame Actually, the piece we typically use for University graduations is a looped excerpt from Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance No 1, not God Save the King. We did rip that off, though simply to reset it as a patriotic song for reasons I still cannot fathom.
YES! Number stations are getting creepier!!! YESSSSSS!!
I love this shit. Question, if I just want to hear number stations in real time, able to explore the different frequencies, what's the minimum hardware I need? Will I need a huge antenna just to pick them up properly? I don't need to broadcast, I just want to be able to freely explore.
I believe that there is an online ‘digital’ radio frequency tuner website.
You can also find information relating to the frequency of know numbers stations, along with the time such frequencies are due to broadcast
Du brauchst ein Weltempfänger zum Beispiel Tecsun 808 und circa 9 Meter Kabel/ Draht, was du aus dem Fenster hängen lässt und los geht 😁
The Mexican food number station made me bust out laughing! And I became a member! Thanks for the great content!❤
The last bit sounds a bit like Delia Derbyshire's music and a German Speak n Spell. Specifically reminded me of her track "Falling", from The Dreams (1964)
I speak German fluently myself. Even that voice was creepy, along with that music. However, the one video where you showed the atom alarm, where it said, “Würstchen Alpha, hier ist Würstchen alpha eins. Atomalarm, Atomalarm” was strange, but also kind of funny. It just, didn’t really make sense. Then again, many shortwave transmissions out there.
Cheers!
Kraftwerk and Steely Dan in a Ringway video. The perfect trifecta
Somehow, the "on-purpose" creepy numbers stations aren't as creepy as those stations that are creepy accidentally...
The Gongs and Chimes parody is using samples from Numbers by Kraftwerk.
Bro...i absolutely love your channel...thank u for the interesting and sometimes spooky videos...very very cool
Thanks!
Thank you so much!
what a bummer! You put the decrypted sentences on screen without reading them aloud. I can't see the screen as I am totally blind, which means I am left out. I would really appreciate it if you could bear this in mind for future videos, and put any onscreen text into the comments or description fields. TIA
I read in an article that Russian forces in Ukraine still use Morse code over open & unencrypted wireless radio. I don't know if you could physically pick that up without a huge antenna but that might make for an interesting video
I must be really, really tough, Lewis.
I felt no fear, but did get this sudden inexplicable urge to listen to Kraftwerk.
The closing audio is so eerie...LOVE IT! 👌
I love the closing audio reminds me of signalwave/ broken transmission niche genre of music. This channel is a rabbithole of a very niche interest of mine about shortwave. I have a cheap shortwave receiver which got me by from boredom last December 2021 after we had a month long power outage as an aftermath of being struch by a cat 4 typhoon in central Philippines. All I got were mainstream broadcasts of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, BBC and Filipino shortwave stations.
The number station with goat sounds probably worked on behalf of Taliban 😅
Or Goat Molester Radio on 43 m of late😂
If you have been to a live Kraftwerk concert in the last 20 years or so, the weird tones in that last station match what comes out of their PA for several minutes before they take the stage. The spoken numbers are one of the computer voices that opens their song "Numbers". Based on that, the station was probably put together by a Kraftwerk fan.
ooh more strange signals, I love your channel! Keep them coming!
The gongs and chimes is heavily influenced by Kraftwerk. The DVD of the live concert Minimum - Maximum plays a sound very similar to this during the DVD menu. It's a slowed down version of the sound from the menu minus the speech synthesizer. The speech synthesizer is also the one Kraftwerk used on the song "Numbers"
Excellent work as usual!
speaking of Rabbit Holes--there is one over in Manchester. laughing fit to cry... especially the Gongs and Chimes parody. If you mixed the Gongs and chimes with Attenttion-69 that would be perfect. Makes a person want to go out and do something in your wacky radio world. Thanks for the entertainment.
I wonder if drug cartels would ever utilize this kind of communication?
Attention 69 sounds like Tourette's Guy.😂
Exelente tu canal!!!
Felicitaciones!!!
The last one looks like the mashup of numbers by kraftwerk and the music kraftwerk plays before their shows begin, i loved it!
The present day equivalent ? High power stations with beam antennas shouting 59 continuously ? They seem to proliferate mainly at weekends 73 .
You need to check out the K1MAN story...crazy dude outta maine.
Wasn't there some French Canadian guy who used to broadcast on 20m, swearing and arguing with people for hours?
8:30 - Sounded French to me, apart from a possible "ok" near the start
The 1st/last one is awesome! The TTS voice is the same one used in Numbers by Kraftwork. As for the tones in the background, it sounds like a preset from one of waves synth vst's. It's either from Flowmotion or Codex.
forgot to clarify in Numbers, It's the TTS voice reading the German numbers.
Brother Stair looks like Alec Guinness as Obi Won Kenobi.
Evil pervert he was.
Back in 2006, I caught the very end of a number station in SSB that appeared to be live. I heard somewhere that many of these strange number stations are connected with drug smuggling and other illegal activity?
@jeffk7734 espionage has always been the main thing I heard for numbers stations that only go to plain text with the one time pad of the person receiving the message.
I haven't ever heard drug trafficking, and while I wouldn't be terribly surprised, most of these guys probably have pgp set up for them
Hi Lewis, good stuff as always. Thank you 😊
Brother Stair was a really winner 🏆,
with serial assault charges against
him in the past in South Carolina. 😅
i live about 10 minutes from east st.louis :) all on the iillinois side of the river :)
As several people already pointed out, the last example uses the synthetic speech from Kraftwerk's "Numbers". However, the tones in the background also come from Kraftwerk. They can be heard on various bootleg recordings of some of their live concerts from the 2000s (example: v=LDfTrAhdvGE ) during the show pre-intro as filler sound used for ambiance. And as someone else mentioned, it can also be heard on the Minimum-Maximum DVD in the menus. And as a bonus, their old website played the tones on the landing page, but sped up quite a bit.
The music box is creepy
The last one's tones are the sounds that Kraftwerk use as the opening of their live concerts, before the music starts. I've heard that same sound when I went to one of their concerts, as well as on a bootleg of one of their concerts. The numbers themselves sound sampled from the track "Numbers".
Actually, the audio might be samples entirely from the same bootleg recording of a concert I have XD
Nice overview, God bless.
The voice reading numbers on the last station are samples from the Kraftwerk song "numbers"
The midi music station you mention makes me think, I'd assume it'd be trivial to use some degital mode to send midi control messages over the radio, have people recieve the Ikea equivalent of music to play on their own devices.
Not that you'd catch me playing pirate music like that, but it'd be interesting to know how well it works.
15:16 is straight outta this video: th-cam.com/video/r7miXlC0C_s/w-d-xo.html It's the Golf Tip guy from the "cursed" Gold Tip number, which was nothing but a test recording from the number's former owner left behind because he did not pay his bill.
giving me the spookies before my bedtime hell yeah. Gonna bash a load of cheese too and have cool alien dreams.
Excellent, Thank You 👍
In the 80s when I was at secondary school my mate and neighbors Dad used to park his Artic cab outside their house and we would hide in the cab trolling and abusing CB radio users, who took it seriously enough to drive around hunting us
6:52 "Depressing philosophical discussions"
Sounds like most of the religious programming already out there.
Sounds like half of the comments in TH-cam..
I like how someone did a parody of a parody.
"Wir fahr'n fahr'n fahr'n auf der Autobahn..."
That one with the Mexican food is interesting.
Actually reminds me of one that somehow made its way on to the FM band, with the message, "Pizza Hut / Pizza Hut / Kentucky Fried Chicken /Pizza Hut."
My son, who is a USN nuc told me it's nothing to worry about.
Of late we have had a Hawaiian numbers station running on 43 m. Nice to see your covering some North American content. Thx THW
Every time you upload a video on number station I firstly pull the like button and then watch the video😂
At the beginning of the Ukrainian war I would go onto a Web based SDR (I hope I'm using the right terminology here as I'm not a radiohead) - and I came across some Asian station that might have been from Pyongyang - the music had this nightmarish surreal, distorted, potemkin village false upbeat sense to it. Your intro reminded me of that now
There are so many interesting things to listen to on the radio. It's a pity that I can't listen to the radio because I live in a multi-story panel house.
That should not keep you from listening in the least. Why do you think you cant put up a hidden antenna and listen?
The gongs and chimes reminds me of Forbidden Planet!
The Poacher parody sounds like the numbers are sampled from TV ads in the Toronto area.
The idea of a numbers station using Roman numerals made me laugh out loud 🤣
Thank you for this information 🙌
touching in again about the 'cousin of the buzzer' freq. on 8365 kHz USB
the same tone can be heard on 4365 & 6365 kHz, same mode, and can be heard at certain times of the day intermittently (used the twente sdr to listen in)
little to no info is out on it, i would love to see the community find out more of what it is
cheers mate
Dada number stations are audio gold ..love it
For the last recording, as anyone consider that the person could be using Numbers by Kraftwerk or using the same synthesized voice?
Before the Dark Web it was SW that carried the Dark stuff ;-)
Hey, what AI model you were using for the background image?
Kraftwerk ~ Numbers (station)
Thanks RM. Another Video Full of Great Information and Secrets**** Take Care.
I would start numbers transmission soon. What frequency do you prefer to listen on and language ? Let me know in comments.
That last one would be good for a Halloween episode
8:40...sounds like it's back masked. Try playing backwards.
Bro what is the intro recoding? sounds like the best ambient album ever created
Were did you buy the radio you use in the vod?
Curious, sure. But "Terrifying"? I'm not the least bit worried. Maybe ya' had to be there?
Bangalore poachers numbers arent totally random, i heard some local area codes in there! sounded like the clips were taken from local radio and tv ads
That American broadcast where you can't understand the phrase sounds to me like it's playing backwards
Thats some Kraftwork mix in there somewhere, or at least thats what it sounds like to me
Yep it was definitely snippets from the song Numbers. 😊
Yooo, I wanna know more about that MIDI Radio station. That honestly seems like the kind of thing I'd do if I had the equipment. (Though, maybe I'd do CMF Radio, instead…)
Have you had any success using modern noise reduction techniques on these recordings? Spectral noise removal in izotope RX is really good I haven’t tried it on radio though
Thanks for the tip! I’ll give it a go
What is that spectogram device you used?
one day i hope to make a pirate station that has its own story like podcast to listen to, next to numbers when " not operating"
8:29 After the music box I can hear "Charlie", , "Charlie", "one". "four", "decontasyon", "", "I again." Then the message is repeated.
that opener just sounds like someone left their og xbox running
I wished I could afford to do more. But awesome video dude
Time to fire up my old valve turn dial radio, used to hear some weird crap on that classic piece .
i love the number station with the music box thats so creepy
The music box at 8:15 is playing Edelweiss.