The Secret Numbers Station That Got Scared

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  • @shodan2958
    @shodan2958 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    The music playing gives a real a competitor to the East German "gongs station" that disappeared shortly before reunification, and the recordings of those are unintentionally creepy as hell.

    • @shodan2958
      @shodan2958 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@fungo6631 The explanation I've been given is the recording was most likely on reel to reel tape and it degraded over the years as presumably it got worn from repeated (probably almost daily) usage. It adds up I guess.

  • @mcgherkinstudios
    @mcgherkinstudios ปีที่แล้ว +15

    This is such a french station.
    German: 10749 10749
    English: 20713 20713
    French: LE HEN IS ABOUT TO LAY UNE EGG!!!

  • @dryadmusic
    @dryadmusic ปีที่แล้ว +44

    Sometime in the late 70s I used to regularly listen to shortwave stations and remember hearing number stations. Once, I tuned into to a station that was broadcasting a man screaming in what sounded like extreme pain. Coincidentally, many years later, a friend of mine (who I didn't know until 1983) told me that he also used to listen to shortwave around the same time and also heard the same screaming. I can only imagine it was a spy who was caught in the act of broadcasting his information, and was tortured and 'used' in this way to send a grim warning to whoever the man spied for. His screams still haunt me to this day.

    • @perunewelpaternain2632
      @perunewelpaternain2632 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      That's messed up.

    • @CAL1MBO
      @CAL1MBO 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I don't personally believe this story, but that's eerie as can be haha. Good one

    • @dryadmusic
      @dryadmusic 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@CAL1MBO Suit yourself, but I'm not in the habit of lying just to get attention. Perhaps it disturbs you so you choose not to believe it...but that's your choice.

    • @pooticus2087
      @pooticus2087 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@dryadmusic you wouldnt happen to remember the signals?

    • @dryadmusic
      @dryadmusic 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@pooticus2087 Do you mean frequency? If so, no I don't. It was around 1979.

  • @g4lmn-ron401
    @g4lmn-ron401 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I remember listening on 6Mhz when I first got interested in SW listening, there was a lot of odd signals around in the 1970s. I miss those times.

  • @thisandthat871
    @thisandthat871 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    Deine deutsche Aussprache ist sehr gut Lewis❤
    Most intruiging a new one on me mate thanks
    Just to sY I really appreciate the amount of research you must have done for the video it's remarkable you should be very proud 👍👍

  • @simonmason8582
    @simonmason8582 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I think that there was some suggestion that the pirate Radio North Sea ship the MEBO 2 was used to broadcast a number station that used Tyrolean Music as a call sign.
    There was also some suggestion that the owners worked for the Stasi.

    • @numberstation
      @numberstation ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The tale of Radio North Sea International is a remarkable one, I think there’s some videos about it here on TH-cam. Real drama on the high seas.

  • @RevMikeBlack
    @RevMikeBlack ปีที่แล้ว +35

    Another great episode! I'm not surprised the French number station had organizational problems. If I'm not mistaken, the director of operations was a young French intelligence officer named Clouseau, who later became Chief Inspector of the Paris police detectives. Witnesses say he wasn't very bright.

    • @adammoss5284
      @adammoss5284 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      especially if one of the messages was “does your dog bite?”

  • @timetraveller6643
    @timetraveller6643 ปีที่แล้ว +80

    This unauthorized recording of an illegal radio broadcast to enemy agents from a hostile power is protected by copyright law.

    • @numberstation
      @numberstation ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I suppose a defence to that would be that it’s not been possible to determine for certain the origin of G1’s transmissions, so it’s not possible to say for certain that it came from a hostile power or was intended for enemy agents.

    • @RCAvhstape
      @RCAvhstape ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I think the composition it was used in is copyrighted.

    • @jean-lucpicard5510
      @jean-lucpicard5510 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Don't think he or I will lose sleep over it.

  • @atlanticx100
    @atlanticx100 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    It would be great if some of these agents if still alive and safe would break cover. Just as some of the code breakers have done from World WW2. It would be a great asset to the history of communication.

    • @mor4y
      @mor4y ปีที่แล้ว +17

      I mean a couple of old folk in the UK did that, and we locked them up, so I wouldn't hold your breath
      I think one was a woman who had worked for the stasi, who just randomly announced it one day about a decade ago, I'd have to go dig the story out unless any other passing commenters can remember it before I do! :)

    • @jean-lucpicard5510
      @jean-lucpicard5510 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@mor4yif its the one I'm thinking of, she wasn't put in prison, as she was in her 80s. Probably Dead by now.

  • @CRCinAU
    @CRCinAU ปีที่แล้ว +29

    How on earth does someone claim a copyright over stuff that they recorded from a source that wasn't them? ie a recorded radio transmission. If that isn't misuse of the copyright system in TH-cam, I don't know what is....

    • @fermitupoupon1754
      @fermitupoupon1754 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      It's most likely about the music in the broadcasts, not the actual broadcasts themselves. I'm just assuming that the French intelligence agency that allegedly made these broadcasts, did not file for permission to broadcast that record of the jodeling king.
      This would now likely fall under the purview of the GEMA, who are notoriously litigious, and who also care extremely little about fair use, like in this case of preserving a historical recording.

  • @theposguy1435
    @theposguy1435 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    That's pretty neat i've never heard of that number station before

  • @Flipdrivel
    @Flipdrivel ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Excellent video (and German pronunciation!) but the idea of someone recording a radio transmission and then claiming copyright in the recording is absurd. There's no rights in pressing "record". If I record something off the BBC can I then prevent anyone else airing the same pirated recording on the grounds I somehow own it? If I photocopy a textbook or download an image do I have "copyright" in the results? Of course not, I'm the one committing an act of piracy. But given that the government that made the content is hardly going to sue, I think you'll be all right.

  • @dickbrocke
    @dickbrocke ปีที่แล้ว +6

    "Our hen is about to lay an egg" (about 4 minutes and a half in).
    I've done my research on this French "East German" number station too. Some of these messages WERE able to be deciphered (and translated to English for those who don't "speakin' de Deutsch").
    The above-mentioned message mentioned in this clip reads as follows: "Our rooster is going to lay an egg".

  • @warmpondwater1610
    @warmpondwater1610 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The TH-cam channel SektorSiebenBlau has the Conet version posted, so a friend tells me. Zahlensender/Number Station "G01" ("Tyrolean Music Station") (F) (1971)

  • @michaelnuk
    @michaelnuk ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Awesome video as usual. Number stations are always fascinating

  • @markaz2kk
    @markaz2kk ปีที่แล้ว

    Listening to these from so long ago is amazing!

  • @mrfrog8502
    @mrfrog8502 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Excellent German pronunciation. Well done Lewis 👍

  • @mfaizsyahmi
    @mfaizsyahmi ปีที่แล้ว +9

    How the heck can somebody claim copyright on numbers station broadcasts? Specific recordings I do get: if it's their antennae picking the signal off the air, their equipment demodulating the EM, their equipment putting the soundwaves on tape, then copies of that tape would be copyrighted. But other people could've done the same, and then each holds a copyright of the respective soundwaves on their respective tapes. Then surely some of those would've been put into public domain by now.

    • @RCAvhstape
      @RCAvhstape ปีที่แล้ว

      If it's used as part of a copyrighted composition. If you made your own recording of the same signal you can do as wish.

  • @user-co8uy5rb2s
    @user-co8uy5rb2s 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    00:30-- the radio nerd in me is just fascinated with what appear to be all kinds of horizontal dipole antennas.

  • @jonathankleinow2073
    @jonathankleinow2073 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    I'm sure it's already been litigated to death, but it still confuses me how someone can copyright a recording of something broadcast by someone else. Seems like the copyright should be with the mysterious transmitter, not Akin Fernandez.

    • @relwalretep
      @relwalretep ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Unless they have permission from the (C) owner... 🤔🤔🤔

    • @bobroberts2371
      @bobroberts2371 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I think it has something to do with " If the recording comes from site X, then X claims the copyright under a body of work. If the recording comes from another source, site X does not have the CR." Also, apparently, there is a whole industry around people claiming CR then filing CR strikes through YT so they can get ad $$ .

    • @mor4y
      @mor4y ปีที่แล้ว +14

      ​@Bob Roberts about a year ago the copyright thing on TH-cam was crazy , a few prominent youtubers uploaded silent black videos to show how even they were hit by about a dozen claims each from dodgy companies trying to cash grab.

    • @mfaizsyahmi
      @mfaizsyahmi ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@bobroberts2371 its mind boggling how such blatant acts of fraud are just allowed to happen in the open, and the status quo is entirely standing by the fraudsters' side.
      Time to remind ourselves that it's not YT's copyright system that's broken, it's the world's (referencing Tom Scott's video)

    • @absalomdraconis
      @absalomdraconis ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@fungo6631 : There was at least one occasion of impersonation of some major game company to get videos taken down, as I recall around the time said company was working up to a new release. In that case, the perp got sued by the company.

  • @Simon_Rafferty
    @Simon_Rafferty ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Someone (another Ham) once told me the numbers etc were a red-herring. That the data was encoded in differences between the upper & lower sidebands. I don't know if it's true - but it kind of makes sense, hiding in plain sight. G7DMQ

  • @Teknophobe
    @Teknophobe ปีที่แล้ว

    Enjoyed this, Lewis. Gratitude.

  • @wisteela
    @wisteela ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Fantastic. I've so got to sample that from the start for one of my tracks. I'm also going to see if I can find that album they used.

  • @0therun1t21
    @0therun1t21 ปีที่แล้ว

    I would be so glued to this waiting for background noise.

  • @onesandzeros
    @onesandzeros ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Thanks Lewis, very interesting. If that Stasi facility isn't the most ominous thing I've ever seen...

    • @trespire
      @trespire ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Brutalist architecture.

    • @adammoss5284
      @adammoss5284 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Mielkesender...

  • @MM0IMC
    @MM0IMC ปีที่แล้ว +4

    6:33 I wonder if they paid royalties? 🤔😂

  • @blu3_enjoy
    @blu3_enjoy ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Makes me think of "Farewell" case. Very interesting

  • @myriaddsystems
    @myriaddsystems ปีที่แล้ว

    Another superb documentary

  • @OxfordShortwaveLog
    @OxfordShortwaveLog ปีที่แล้ว

    Another great story told, Lewis!

  • @bradmiley
    @bradmiley ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Another excellent video Ringway! I'm a UK VHF/UHF Amateur, and an SWL since I was about 6, when my Uncle fixed up an old Pye valve set for me in the 70s.
    When CONET started, I got hold of a copy (which answered a lot of questions about old SW oddities!) and I loaned it to a friend of mine who creates Electronic Dance Music. He created an extended play single, I think around 14 minutes long, using and layering these samples. I used to play it a lot in the car - when in car CD players were a thing (remember those days?) and really enjoyed it. Like I said, it was never an album track, only a single. Since I know you to be a fan of the EDM yourself, I wonder if you might fancy a listen. It's good fun to try and see how many you can spot - and he's never committed to giving me the correct number of different numbers/spy stations. I think guessing is better than knowing anyway.
    Should you fancy a listen, I could maybe email you an MP3 version, if you drop me your address.
    As ever, excellent video - I love your vids on numbers/spies/oddities - your quality is always A1 and well-researched. Should you ever fancy a chat, I'm in the North myself, but more to the east of the "spine of the UK"!
    73s, and keep up the top notch work!
    Brad.

    • @carb0n22
      @carb0n22 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      If you wouldn’t mind, I’d also like to hear it. I produce some music and has only been thinking the other day I should use number station samples

    • @bradmiley
      @bradmiley ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@carb0n22 Hello! Of course we could arrange that. Technically, I think this would be classed a "White Label", as it was made *for* me as a gift in, if I recall, around 2010ish. It was a one off single, never an album track, but I checked with him (just courtesy really!) and he's happy for you to have a listen. Like I said it's around 14 minutes or so, and has a more "stripped down" sound than he usually creates - so I could hear the samples 😀
      How do I, you know, *get* it to you? It will be the MP3 version, but I recall it's a high bitrate (sounds great in the car as it's fully binaural - he's pretty obsessed with binaural sound so there you go). Any other questions or whatever, just fire away. Cheers, Brad.

    • @Zanith50
      @Zanith50 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      that be a funny plot in a movie ,someone making a dance track of numbers stations and it awakes sleeper agents in the club :P

    • @bradmiley
      @bradmiley ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Zanith50 Oh it would! Ha ha!! The idea of all these people just dancing, then suddenly 30% of the crowd stands still a couple of seconds, and makes a bee line for the exits. As weapons slide almost from nowhere into their hands, they all split towards different embassies and legations! Fantastic. A bit like in that recent Bourne-based series...
      That would be some cool viewing! 👍

    • @5Hydroxytryptophan
      @5Hydroxytryptophan ปีที่แล้ว +2

      How about uploading the track on YT? I think there are some people interested here. It would be appreciated.

  • @coral-ci6zx
    @coral-ci6zx ปีที่แล้ว

    One of your best.

  • @bielanski2493
    @bielanski2493 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What a lovely Hoch-Deutsch pronunciation you have!

  • @fretlessfender
    @fretlessfender 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Somehow those sentences remind me of the code messages used during WW2. Especially those used in.prelude to D-Day. Loose sentences without meaning to the ear of the enemy...

  • @highpath4776
    @highpath4776 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Hans, Nezzen, and BompsADaizy, we are going on a Cruise ?

  • @konstkarapanpro
    @konstkarapanpro ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Didn't expect such good German accent

  • @Datznet
    @Datznet ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I can tell you that the location was not "Burgin" but Burg, a town near Magdeburg in Saxony-Anhalt. The sentences were total nonsense. Their aim was to distract Western intelligence services and keep them busy trying to make any sense out of them. Very similar nonsense-messages had been embedded in popular music channels operated by the East-German Stasi, for the same reason, and to attract public listeners. It worked, many young people in the West listened to the Stasi radio, firstly because of their good brand new music mix (they didn't care about copyrights, of course), and because the frequently embedded eerie voice messages gave it a clandestine exciting touch.

  • @StrawberryKitten
    @StrawberryKitten ปีที่แล้ว +3

    4:14 You CAN play it here... They cannot copyright it since they aren't the authors lol

    • @RingwayManchester
      @RingwayManchester  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Well I CANT’T because I tried and got a copyright claim from the conet project

    • @StrawberryKitten
      @StrawberryKitten ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@RingwayManchester They are abusing the system then.

  • @railtech1536
    @railtech1536 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    You pronounced the German very well.

  • @non-human3072
    @non-human3072 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    How do you own a copyright of a mixed tape recorded off "free-to-air" broadcast?

  • @bac1111967
    @bac1111967 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Brilliant as usual. I love all this...

  • @snakezdewiggle6084
    @snakezdewiggle6084 ปีที่แล้ว

    That was cool, thankz.
    I've never heard anyone alud to the stations attempting to be purposely uninteresting, which is obvious if think about it.
    ;)

  • @Bluelagoonstudios
    @Bluelagoonstudios ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Sounds like Bavarian language, but then it has to be transmitted from Munich or in the neighborhood.

    • @felixlohrer9600
      @felixlohrer9600 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Rather sounds to me as the speaker lived in Alsace. That would fit to the theory the sender was operated by French.

  • @outaspaceman
    @outaspaceman 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wonder if I can get Franzl Lang’s hit tunes on CD..? 🤔

  • @DavidPanda417
    @DavidPanda417 ปีที่แล้ว

    The magazine may have been "Popular Communications".

  • @markcancellara
    @markcancellara ปีที่แล้ว

    the same music was used on the UK game show "the price is right "

  • @bobsoldrecords1503
    @bobsoldrecords1503 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I was hoping you'd do a video about this station.

  • @TheOnlyInformant
    @TheOnlyInformant ปีที่แล้ว +1

    For some reason I want you to read numbers to me in a numbers station way

  • @Allan_aka_RocKITEman
    @Allan_aka_RocKITEman 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    @RingwayManchester >>> Great video...👍

  • @stratojet94
    @stratojet94 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ah tyrolean music station, one of my favorite. There was a conspiracy that those involved in the lockerbie bombing where broadcasting this to Stasi agents from Radio Nordsee Internationals platform, before it was revealed to be run by the French

  • @Cedrikkkk
    @Cedrikkkk ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Damn, your German pronunciation is excellent!

  • @herby4215
    @herby4215 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The radar station of villa Benedetta, Livorno, Italy is very strange stories

  • @kabalu
    @kabalu ปีที่แล้ว

    oh, eine Kuschelstation

  • @miauwgabriel3547
    @miauwgabriel3547 ปีที่แล้ว

    Imagine if the soviets would have responded to the broadcast from SDECE.

  • @tykjpelk
    @tykjpelk ปีที่แล้ว

    It's hilarious to me that their method of staying inconspicuous was to blast Franzl Lang.

  • @NaoPb
    @NaoPb ปีที่แล้ว

    In the thumbnail for this video there is some sort of building or an antennae disguised as a building? What was that about? It kind of reminds me of those WWII forts at sea but different.

    • @GuybrushThriftweed
      @GuybrushThriftweed ปีที่แล้ว

      I was fascinated by it too😅 I believe it's Brockenhaus HWN 9

  • @w75525
    @w75525 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Please could you put some text on screen to indicate what the masts you're showing in the video are called? Edit: future videos I mean.

  • @TheBlackob
    @TheBlackob 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    If no goverment ever acknowledged numbers stations, how do we know who operated them, like in this case?

  • @karlament6939
    @karlament6939 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wee- my kind of a radio station a yodel station sit at the control-room monitoring their big transmitter and having a few beers and a big-shot German Stein yodel yodel

  • @winstonchurchill6506
    @winstonchurchill6506 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Gutten tag to you as well

  • @BarneySaysHi
    @BarneySaysHi 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You speak German very well!

  • @coral-ci6zx
    @coral-ci6zx ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks!

  • @Mike-James
    @Mike-James ปีที่แล้ว

    Those type of spoken messages was used by the BBC in the 40s.

  • @drahtfunker
    @drahtfunker ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Your german pronunciation 💪🏻

  • @jasoncarswell7458
    @jasoncarswell7458 ปีที่แล้ว

    Franzl is the man, he yodeled for freedom.

  • @penerusluckyarul23n
    @penerusluckyarul23n ปีที่แล้ว

    Secret Number

  • @5roundsrapid263
    @5roundsrapid263 ปีที่แล้ว

    You’re not part German are you? Dein Sprechen ist fantastich!

  • @klhaldane
    @klhaldane ปีที่แล้ว

    Secret yodelling stations... They have to operate underground for fear of retaliation.
    But were they bad at running the station, or really good at looking amateur? "Nothing to see here, just somebody with one Tyrolean LP and a level 1 German phrasebook".

  • @heitorvrb
    @heitorvrb ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Found out and then they waved the white flag. They were French indeed.

    • @jiversteve
      @jiversteve ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Continuing the myth and showing how ignorant you are!

  • @emptybucket1988
    @emptybucket1988 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Your German 😲

  • @SpyStaMia
    @SpyStaMia 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    2:19 - 6660 kHz. That’s too funny … 👹

  • @mx338
    @mx338 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You know it's a fake German number station/ because Northern/Eastern Germans wouldn't play Bavarian folk music.