🤔🧐I would think.that they have a repeat transmission another day incase that the agent missed it. Things happen, bad radio reception, unable to access radio, things happen.
I'm sure someone does, imagine went to an internet cafe and seen as a weirdo listening to weird noise instead waiting for a few days for the message to repeated again :p
I feel like that's why they repeat. Some only appear once but that one time was for at least a few days. I think too that it's never meant for one person.
I remember reading about a Russian numbers station that would broadcast a message that took like three days to loop and one day someone was listening and they heard a door shut and footsteps and then people realized it wasn't automated, it was someone reading the numbers aloud.
I remember what you were talking about and the story was really interesting. People have actually gone into where it was recorded because the original building was abandoned. It was empty when they went in, but I think they found a short note that was left behind (I may be wrong). I know now that the current locations of the broadcasts are scattered, but they still occur
In eastern Canada, there used to be a shortwave antenna right off of a major highway(until 2012), it was quite a site to see. I just found out recently that the local residents in the nearest town used to hear the transmissions in their plumbing, and appliances, and would sometimes dream in foreign languages, as the site relayed transmissions from Europe. there was a documentary made about it just before they shut down the site called spectres of shortwave.
I am a ham radio operator. Yes, shortwave is VERY addictive. Especially when you can talk back, on the bands I am allowed to talk on. That online receiver is very nice! Granted, there is about a 1-2 second delay, I will find that very useful when I am trying to work that area of the world. BTW, when y'all were talking about bouncing signals around the world, under the right conditions, you can hear your own signal after going all the way around the world. Happy hunting!
d1sgrace this is my other channel. If you take a look I've uploaded a few videos about shortwave. Recently there's been a new station found, very new in fact. Only a week or so ago. It's police sirens and wolves howling and people wailing. It starts randomly and goes randomly, and we don't yet know why. It's on 3460khz LSB usually. You'll be lucky to hear it though. I'll upload the audio to this channel in the next couple of weeks. 3243 USB is interesting called the goose. You'll only hear these channels at night though due to propagation. I you haven't yet, check out Priyom. They have the number station schedule so every station and their times and frequencies are on there. It's so easy to listen to a station when it telling you it'll be on in 10 minutes or so. The video on this channel I've done shows you how, so please take a look and leave a comment. It's late here now, but if you leave me a comment on this channels videos, I'll leave you a reply and hopefully a few more frequencies to try out :)
@@SculpturesArtAndMore man thank you so much! I'll drop a sub and notifs too! thanks for the help fr it's awesome that you're so nice to help out with someone fairly new to the whole shortwave thing!
5:45 That sounds bad because you're in the wrong demodulation mode. The buttons beneath the frequency (CW, LSB, USB, AM, etc.) change the demodulation. The stations with the bright line in the middle are in AM. USB and LSB are upper sideband and lower sideband; they'll have a bright line at one side with the signal above or below. For interesting stations, always check Priyom as you mentioned. Also, the mediumwave band (what we know as AM) from 500-1700 KHz, and the longwave band, which we don't have in the US but Europe uses it, around 140-300 KHz. Those will all be AM. Also, for well-known numbers stations: Buzzer (4625 KHz USB), Pip (3756 KHz AM), and the Squeaky Wheel (3832 KHz LSB). Also check out the frequency ranges of various amateur bands.
@@juliedejonge3931 AM and FM are very similar but FM has larger bandwidth (takes up more space side to side on the waterfall view). AM and FM generally have a bright line surrounded by weaker signals on either side. An easy way to see if you should be using AM or FM is just click between the two and see which mode is the proper width for the signal. CW on the other hand is generally very dim signal that has a very small bandwidth. CW is the mode over which morse code is transmitted. You'd only use it in the off chance that you find morse code being transmitted.
The weirdest station I ever found was a creepy human voice alternating with random animal noises. I only heard ot once, I tried many times and never found it again. It was different times, we had only a state controlled media so scanning the short wave in our old soviet radio for any news from "the other side" felt like contacting aliens. Yeah, I kind of miss the cold war.
I'm not old enough to actually remember the cold war, but sometimes I wish I was able to. Just for hearing all these number stations that have been active during that time.
UVB-76 also reffered to as 'The Buzzer' is a cold war era numbers station that started around the Early 70's, and (I think) is still running today. Frequency: 4625.00 USB
@@Rocky_Railways97yeah one of them is gromel42 a very funny pirate he broadcast / hijacked from a own home made transmitter makes from old soviet union radio tubes
Okay, Brian and Jason I owe both of you guys a beer. Ever since I watched this episode of Modern Rogue I have been obsessed with using the Shortwave Spectrum Tool and, doing other research. I have been decoding Morse code and have even heard the random numbers and names. So thank you guys for the new hobby.
It's worth to point out, those so called Slow Scan TV signals are in fact a Pager signal which is very close to the Websdr receiver. SSTV are usually found on the amateur allocated bands. Also it's best to use the correct modes when listening to this SDR remote receiver. Such as AM for regular broadcast stations, USB or LSB for amateur radio and data modes. And CW for Morse Code, it will improve your listening experience.
a few years ago, I found an old shortwave communications receiver in an abandoned barn (as you do). now im a licenced ham and have 2 big masts in my backyard n a pile of radios. yup, its addictive. something super awesome talking to someone in south Africa or Italy or the middle of the Atlantic. seems trival in the internet age, but its from my Mic, to their speaker, with not much else in between. thanks Ionosphere!
I've been listening to HAM radio on that website for close to 10 years now. The content you find there varies WILDLY, from music and casual conversations to legit creepy stuff. I was once blessed with a conversation between two people discussing pickles and dumplings. I also once caught a "Russian Man" number station in action too.
the amazing duk, Saving him unlocks Strong as a companion, and gives you a piece of clothing that's great for Low-Charisma-Build players that want to pass speech checks too.
Ugh, I got sucked into this stuff a few months back using some cheap(ish) SDR gear... don't get me hooked again! The weirdness is so addictive. There's some super bizarre stuff floating through the airwaves...
all I hear is "come on man, just try it once. I'll even spot you the first hit. What you got to lose?" and yet... I still clicked the link to check it out, because I'm an addict, and I might as well own that. :D
Is it more frustrating knowing some are literally just jibberish, to waste the time of enemy spies trying to decode nothing. Since I think around less than half are counter espionage noise, which you'll also never know which are real and which are bs.
I'm old enough that I actually drank Ovaltine. I don't remember drinking it much after 1970. I think they went out of business, either that or mom and dad just stopped buying it? It was not too bad but it never completely dissolved if I remember correctly.
UTC actually stands for 'Co-ordinated Universal Time'. The order UTC was picked because in French it would be Temps Universel Coordonné and basically because the French and English can't get along (they claim it's to avoid confusion) and everybody wanted the abbreviation to be the same in all languages they went with one that doesn't work in either language.
This is another great episode from you guys but I swear one of these days there a knock on your doors and a couple of guys in black suits will start asking "questions" about your activities.
Jason Murphy Let's just hope that none of those guys have a russian accent and a black van with guys that are armed with AK's 'cause Modern Rogue is one of my personal favorite on this site.
There's nothing risky or illegal in listening to numbers stations. All of their data is encrypted into a string of numbers, and by comparing the numbers to a one-time pad (only good for one transmission), you can decrypt the data and obtain the message. Without either the pad, or the transcript of the transmission, you can never crack the code.
You guys, this thing is so cool. I fount The Voice of Korea, which is the main North Korean radio station!!!! This is so cool thank you for introducing me to this!
You can also listen to Voice Of Korea online via their homepage (only genuine if the name of the glorious leader is in a larger font size than the rest). You only need to install their custom player software. I mean, what could possibly go wrong? x-D
Also real time intercept of ADS-B signals from aircraft, see them flying towards you on a ADS-B map application then look up in the sky to see it fly overhead.
You can and its called WEFAX "WEATHER FAX" you need the free decoder called FLDIGI to decode it but with UtwenteSDR its hard to get a good a signal unless you record it first and then play it back in FlDigi and you get the image
I found a Conversation coming from a Russian Helicopter between a Man and Woman! Really far at the end of the spectrum. 27000ish or something. Really cool thing.
Pete the Paper Boat DUDE i don’t know if you will see this but omg I found the convo you were talking about, it’s pretty weird and confusing that it’s still broadcasting to this day
I still use shortwave radio and like hunting down various things. I like hooking a spec A up and then running the feed to my computer which produces a waterfall record showing various signal characteristics. One of my favorites is the different OTH radars you can see and then identifying them based upon their RF characteristics. I'm sure someone pointed this out, but you guys are also in the USB mode when browsing through, hence the tone, which is the centerline frequency. The stations where it's news and the like are actually full wave AM signals with a central carrier frequency. Since you guys are in Upper side band, you are only picking up that little bit. You can change to AM mode down there in the menu, set the frequency you want, and the demodulation removes the carrier tone. USB means Upper Side Band. LSB is lower side band Am is amplitude modulation FM is Frequency modulation CW is Carrier wave. Most data signals you pick up are best listened to on USB mode. If you then use the Ham Radio deluxe program, you can take and record the signals yourself, then demodulate them using known modulation modes such as PSK-31 which is a very common modulation method used by Amateur radio enthusiasts.
Best place to bury a body? Everglades, done. Best way to dispose of a body? They could teach everyone how to make piranha solution, which would be a bad idea. But mythbusters pretty much did it already so how bad could it be?
Shortwave listening is fascinating because of the amount of activity on it. For a real hunt try the low bands below the AM commercial band. There is a band down around 165 to 190 Khz that has active users mostly using one watt non-licensed transmitters to usually broadcast beacon signals usually with Morse code in extremely slow rates of perhaps half a minute per dot. The band is referred to as "Lowfer".
I think I might have just found a numbers station, or at least a station that is definitely using some type of code (and a tiny bit of morse code at the end of each "cycle"). You don't hear actual numbers, but they might be what is being encoded, or it might be used for similar purposes.
I looked it up and apparently it's a russian military frequency 4250. There's nothing more cold war than russian code so I think this counts as a find. It sounds like something you might hear on the Death Star.
TheCptCoy Hi! I know I'm a bit late but in case you're still interested, that frequency you found (4250) is indeed a Russian military frequency. The constant beeping is merely the Russians 'reserving' the frequency so to speak. By broadcasting a powerful signal such as the one you heard, nobody will try to use it. Hope you find this interesting!
I've always loved shortwave. When I heard my first numbers station in 1983, I thought it might be somebody testing a transmitter. Then I learned that at a shortwave listeners' club that it was a coded message. At present, I just hear Cuban spy station transmissions in the afternoons. Tune around and you'll often find a Spanish female voice reading off numbers and then some sort of data transmission. The beauty of this system is that the spies are untraceable. The transmitter can reach field operatives using a cheap radio and a pad posted to a special drop box. Even in a place with no Internet, an operative can get the message. That's the beauty of shortwave. No Internet or satellite is required. It also helps to know where the signals will be on the band. I prefer a tuning knob rather than UP/DOWN buttons. Even so, it's thrilling to hear these coded messages.
one of 2 things will happen 1: this is the last we see of these 2 2: Jason starts dressing in black and vomiting all over Brian yelling "HAIL THE DARK LORD!"
i swear iv almost caused me to be single, with sstv.... it was VERY early in the AM when i watched that episode of modern rogues.... and you know i fired up the phone and started sending my self nonsense....... she wasn't amused :-O
Sweet, covering webSDR, so many wasted hours and it's totally worth it. To 1up your setup, you could use a cheap dvbt-dongle (the ones to receive tv broadcasts to a computer) to scan the air transmissions in your local area, the guys at Hak5 covered this in a few segments.
I thought everybody completely forgot about numbers stations and I remembered them a few months ago and I've been waiting for new videos about them for SOOOO LONG thank you guys omfg.
I remember years ago a buddy told me about numbers stations. We found an old radio and fooled around and actually found one. It was here in the Chicago area and the chime was like a midi 'somewhere over the rainbow' then random numbers. Very cool thing to find RIP Gary (1990-2021)
This episode was actually just four of us, but these days we usually have five on board. I try to keep the title card and the description up to date and accurate for each episode as far as who worked on each one.
+Jason Murphy thank you for teaming up the mr brushwood. I have e been watching him for years and yours is a face that compliments his completely. all 5 of you are legends in the making. keep it real but also safe, we want to enjoy you guys for years to come.
Oh just great! Like I _needed_ another time-consuming thing to become obsessed with! I'd be worse than Brian. Great thing about those codes is that they are totally unbreakable because, unless you're one of the very few people in the know about that particular usage of the number/word/phrase/nursery rhyme _at the time period it's being used_ by that particular station, there's no way to understand it. "73" can mean different things to different people on different days listening to different radio stations and there's no way anyone else listening in can tell if that particular message means "instructions waiting at the dead drop", "all clear to assassinate the target", "your cover has been blown" or "come home, your wife misses you."
dude,your not lying.that shortwave radio is hella addictive.so i'm at the computer with headphones looking for numbers stations,ET,Czechoslovakian sports radio,anything really.my wife needing my attention pulls out the headphone jack and blaring out the speakers,which are of coarse turned to 11,comes white noise with intermittent whistles and beeps.the look of confusion on her face was priceless.i think she thought i had finally snapped.
experimental audio engineer and music producer/sound designer here. that shortwave website is a goldmine. thank you so much. this is an alietoric noise music dream come true, and so much more. so many instruments, wavetables, weird samples and processed fx will come out of this.
Another interesting thing is that China has a jammer to interfere with the Taiwan Voice of Hope stations. There's also some stations telling people to rise up against their government.
When I was a kid, I used to sleep outside in a tent all summer, and my Dad had made a Heathkit radio that I kept in that tent. I used to listen to all kinds of stuff, and came across a few numbers stations when playing with the short wave portion. It also had FM, AM, Police, Aviation and others, but all I ever got was Cool AM stations way far away (WOWO Ft Wayne is the only one I recall by call leters) and occasionally unknown SW stations. 99.5 WRNO New Orleans used to broadcast SW, might still.
Wowow! The Shortwave Spectrum Tool is so so freakin' cool!!! I have a Grundig SW radio but haven't used it to troll SW in years... this tool brings back all the "magic" of scrolling thru SW frequencies I enjoyed!
Oh man, just got done with this. You are in for a treat. There is so much crap in that small section. That's not even all of it. There's stuff clear up to like 440mhz! This starts at about 1.8mhz, just above am radio, then there's stuff all over. If you're looking for data, look up the ham band plan and it will tell you what's where. There's Morse code, any kind of digital you want including digital voice now! There's AM like what you show with a line and fuzzy on each side, or ssb which is just AM that's been chopped in half. It'll just look like half of the AM. If you get in touch, I can even transmit you a live sstv picture to one of these for your show. This is just my thing, and I'm excited to help
No it's not. Doppler effect only occurs when a source or reciever is moving in the direction of transmission. So unless the listening station is a satellite or the broadcasts do come from space, it's intentional.
came here straight from a video of the Lincolnshire poacher broadcast, it was such a trip to hear you two listening to it at the start of the video 😵💫
Reksrat nah I got it from metal gear. (And I'm not just one of those twats who thinks they know mg because I only played 5. I'm playing them all. Just sayin'.)
This. Most were turned off in the early/mid 2000's as internet access and mobile/cell phones largely replaced the role of traditional numbers stations.
A little late to the show but in the early weeks of the Ukraine conflict I Intercepted a few instances of people using nato phonetic mixed with Russian speech. Some of it was distinctly military language.
We had numbers stations out of new York years ago. Some of you may not remember we deported a group of Russians. I sorta suspected the signals I was hearing was more localized. Weeks or a couple months later- my suspicions were indeed confirmed. There are Signals being transmitted in secret in our home towns. Someone in their attic or cellar to someone in the woods or from a corporate building for example. Sending out sensitive data and its happening as you read this. The fun is in the CATCH indeed! Never knowing whom or where its being sent.
I had an Emerson short wave radio receiver growing up in the Eighties, you ran a wire from it to the window screen at night, it was no joke, it was alive! I spoke German at the time and I'd hear all kinds of stuff from East Germany, Russia, Czechoslovakia, you name it. I haven't had a shortwave since 1995, I'd love to get another one.
Haha next week: Jason: Let's check in on Brian, shall we? >_> Brian: 😳😨😨😨 (notices Jason) ☹️😠 GET OOUUUTT!! Jason: (zooms out and closes the door) . . . Brian's busy, at the moment. We'll check back in next week! :D . . . 😰 😹 I could see this happening. A series just on this.
I was really hoping you would bring up the Twente Online SDR, it's the easiest way to capture that one notorious number station in Russia, and many others.
This is so awesome! I used to listen to those number channels as a child, usually in the dark at night before bedtime thinking, "Wow, I ve got no idea what this is, but those could be secret messages for spies!" How cool that other people listened to this too! Thank you so much for this video, I'm going to try this, thank you so much for all the info!!!😄🇮🇪👍🍀
I'm addicted!! I've looked things up, and have an old radio scanner. I just need to identify which sounds are radar antenna, and broadcast signals now. I'm needing out!
That's an unusually low frequency for a numbers station. It's not much above the 160m amateur band and mw am broadcast radio. It isn't as reliable for international broadcasting. Not bad at night but too much D layer atmospheric attenuation but even at night it wouldn't be as good as the higher shortwave frequencies.
I use that SDR receiver from the University of Twente, and I agree, it's highly addictive to listen to! Most recently I picked up the Container Over The Horizon radar from Russia, it's a slightly faster version of the old DUGA 3 "Russian Woodpecker" OTH radar that was shut down in the 1990's.
I've spent hours listening to the Buzzer, The Pip and the Squeaky Wheel live. Haven't caught any of the rare voice transmissions though. Ran across a numbers station earlier today reading off 5 figure groups In English. I didn't notate the frequency though. :(
this is basically like being able to hear EVERYTHING but "everything" also involve not-interested parts, this is a cool way to hide information honestly xd
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I wonder if a spy has ever missed their message and gone on to these forums to see if someone recorded it.
🤔🧐I would think.that they have a repeat transmission another day incase that the agent missed it. Things happen, bad radio reception, unable to access radio, things happen.
I'm sure someone does, imagine went to an internet cafe and seen as a weirdo listening to weird noise instead waiting for a few days for the message to repeated again :p
I feel like that's why they repeat. Some only appear once but that one time was for at least a few days. I think too that it's never meant for one person.
They would almost certainly have way a to request a retransmission if missed. At least they did in The Americans.
@@CHIIIEEEEEEEEFFFFSSS but how are they gonna know they missed one haha?
*turns on short wave radio*
"We've been trying to contact you about your car's extended warranty."
*turns off short wave radio*
Just bought some deodorant and found a note with that.
That’s the same thing about me
I got this message “this is your last warning press 1 to be in our do not call or try to speak with a expert to extend your cars warranty”
Holy shit bro lol
I remember reading about a Russian numbers station that would broadcast a message that took like three days to loop and one day someone was listening and they heard a door shut and footsteps and then people realized it wasn't automated, it was someone reading the numbers aloud.
I remember what you were talking about and the story was really interesting. People have actually gone into where it was recorded because the original building was abandoned. It was empty when they went in, but I think they found a short note that was left behind (I may be wrong). I know now that the current locations of the broadcasts are scattered, but they still occur
Chris Connolly bro I thought those footsteps were in his house before I finished reading lmao
i believe thats station UVB-76, AKA "The Buzzer". Check it out. always a fun google rabbit hole for me, this stuff.
@@Wiresgalore Next to it on freq 4628CW is the russian aird defense data transmit
@@Wiresgalore Although УВБ-76 is not really a Numbers station but mostly a Military radio where they send orders to formations and commanders etc.
In eastern Canada, there used to be a shortwave antenna right off of a major highway(until 2012), it was quite a site to see. I just found out recently that the local residents in the nearest town used to hear the transmissions in their plumbing, and appliances, and would sometimes dream in foreign languages, as the site relayed transmissions from Europe. there was a documentary made about it just before they shut down the site called spectres of shortwave.
I am a ham radio operator. Yes, shortwave is VERY addictive. Especially when you can talk back, on the bands I am allowed to talk on. That online receiver is very nice! Granted, there is about a 1-2 second delay, I will find that very useful when I am trying to work that area of the world. BTW, when y'all were talking about bouncing signals around the world, under the right conditions, you can hear your own signal after going all the way around the world. Happy hunting!
THE NUMBERS MASON! WHAT DO THEY MEAN?
Christian Hinz omg yesssss
Christian Hinz You killed him. No one else.
I was looking for this.
I don't know.
THE NUMBERS, JASON!
you should make a hour Long video just messing around on short wave Radio.
Oh, man... Don't tempt me...
The Modern Rogue JUST DO IT ;)
Hawk_ Eye yeah...he should do that...but also trying to broadcast one...number station by modern rogue
freq 14078.13 it plays some kind of morse code. and on 14077.82 it plays the same thing but with some changes. You need to check this out guys!
DONT LET YOUR DREAMS BE DREAMS!
I know I’m late but so far I’ve found Morse code, footsteps crunching in snow, whales, this is insanely fun
I found some
Found anything else? I can tell you some good frequencies
@@LawnBowlerUK no I haven't found anything really cool actually! what frequencies are good??
d1sgrace this is my other channel. If you take a look I've uploaded a few videos about shortwave. Recently there's been a new station found, very new in fact. Only a week or so ago. It's police sirens and wolves howling and people wailing. It starts randomly and goes randomly, and we don't yet know why. It's on 3460khz LSB usually. You'll be lucky to hear it though. I'll upload the audio to this channel in the next couple of weeks. 3243 USB is interesting called the goose. You'll only hear these channels at night though due to propagation.
I you haven't yet, check out Priyom. They have the number station schedule so every station and their times and frequencies are on there. It's so easy to listen to a station when it telling you it'll be on in 10 minutes or so. The video on this channel I've done shows you how, so please take a look and leave a comment. It's late here now, but if you leave me a comment on this channels videos, I'll leave you a reply and hopefully a few more frequencies to try out :)
@@SculpturesArtAndMore man thank you so much! I'll drop a sub and notifs too! thanks for the help fr it's awesome that you're so nice to help out with someone fairly new to the whole shortwave thing!
5:45 That sounds bad because you're in the wrong demodulation mode. The buttons beneath the frequency (CW, LSB, USB, AM, etc.) change the demodulation. The stations with the bright line in the middle are in AM. USB and LSB are upper sideband and lower sideband; they'll have a bright line at one side with the signal above or below.
For interesting stations, always check Priyom as you mentioned. Also, the mediumwave band (what we know as AM) from 500-1700 KHz, and the longwave band, which we don't have in the US but Europe uses it, around 140-300 KHz. Those will all be AM. Also, for well-known numbers stations: Buzzer (4625 KHz USB), Pip (3756 KHz AM), and the Squeaky Wheel (3832 KHz LSB). Also check out the frequency ranges of various amateur bands.
Wow
I know everything now
This is a bunch of useful info. Thank you for posting it!
But I also have a question: what about CW and FM? How do we know where to use these two modes?
@@juliedejonge3931 AM and FM are very similar but FM has larger bandwidth (takes up more space side to side on the waterfall view). AM and FM generally have a bright line surrounded by weaker signals on either side. An easy way to see if you should be using AM or FM is just click between the two and see which mode is the proper width for the signal.
CW on the other hand is generally very dim signal that has a very small bandwidth. CW is the mode over which morse code is transmitted. You'd only use it in the off chance that you find morse code being transmitted.
The weirdest station I ever found was a creepy human voice alternating with random animal noises. I only heard ot once, I tried many times and never found it again. It was different times, we had only a state controlled media so scanning the short wave in our old soviet radio for any news from "the other side" felt like contacting aliens. Yeah, I kind of miss the cold war.
woah, that’s cool
I'm not old enough to actually remember the cold war, but sometimes I wish I was able to. Just for hearing all these number stations that have been active during that time.
bet this dude is no longer with us lol
@@tacobell5150 Still here
Found it.
UVB-76 also reffered to as 'The Buzzer' is a cold war era numbers station that started around the Early 70's, and (I think) is still running today. Frequency: 4625.00 USB
YEA IT WORKS
Per the website it is not adibule during the daytime
@@coopersmith2291 Which is normal for the frequency.
There has been pirate stations trying to going on top of the Buzzer
@@Rocky_Railways97yeah one of them is gromel42 a very funny pirate he broadcast / hijacked from a own home made transmitter makes from old soviet union radio tubes
Okay, Brian and Jason I owe both of you guys a beer. Ever since I watched this episode of Modern Rogue I have been obsessed with using the Shortwave Spectrum Tool and, doing other research. I have been decoding Morse code and have even heard the random numbers and names. So thank you guys for the new hobby.
Awesome!!
It's worth to point out, those so called Slow Scan TV signals are in fact a Pager signal which is very close to the Websdr receiver. SSTV are usually found on the amateur allocated bands. Also it's best to use the correct modes when listening to this SDR remote receiver. Such as AM for regular broadcast stations, USB or LSB for amateur radio and data modes. And CW for Morse Code, it will improve your listening experience.
a few years ago, I found an old shortwave communications receiver in an abandoned barn (as you do). now im a licenced ham and have 2 big masts in my backyard n a pile of radios. yup, its addictive. something super awesome talking to someone in south Africa or Italy or the middle of the Atlantic. seems trival in the internet age, but its from my Mic, to their speaker, with not much else in between. thanks Ionosphere!
I've been listening to HAM radio on that website for close to 10 years now. The content you find there varies WILDLY, from music and casual conversations to legit creepy stuff. I was once blessed with a conversation between two people discussing pickles and dumplings. I also once caught a "Russian Man" number station in action too.
Okay but if you run across one where there's a guy trapped by Super Mutants at Trinity Tower, just skip it. He's a total loser.
Lena Oxton its not worth saving him
the amazing duk, Saving him unlocks Strong as a companion, and gives you a piece of clothing that's great for Low-Charisma-Build players that want to pass speech checks too.
Fuckin hate that quest
@@lenaoxton3999 Why would I want a filthy disgusting mutant as a companion? The only good mutant is a dead one. Ad victoriam.
He is
Ugh, I got sucked into this stuff a few months back using some cheap(ish) SDR gear... don't get me hooked again! The weirdness is so addictive. There's some super bizarre stuff floating through the airwaves...
dude, just try that web-based radio... just for a bit. It's really extraordinary and I'm sure it won't hook you...
all I hear is "come on man, just try it once. I'll even spot you the first hit. What you got to lose?" and yet... I still clicked the link to check it out, because I'm an addict, and I might as well own that. :D
What have you done to me
*just take on puff, you'll see, it feels great" lol
I want to try, what kind of equipment do I need? Cheap preferably 😂
it’s so frustrating that SOMEONE knows what’s being sent on those and they’ll never tell us
it's not frustrating, it is the goal of number stations.
Is it more frustrating knowing some are literally just jibberish, to waste the time of enemy spies trying to decode nothing. Since I think around less than half are counter espionage noise, which you'll also never know which are real and which are bs.
I decoded one of those messages once. It said to drink Ovaltine.
A crummy commercial ? 😡
Sunnuvabitch!!!
HA!!! Found the spy!!
My secret decoder pin is useless!!!
I'm old enough that I actually drank Ovaltine. I don't remember drinking it much after 1970. I think they went out of business, either that or mom and dad just stopped buying it? It was not too bad but it never completely dissolved if I remember correctly.
UTC actually stands for 'Co-ordinated Universal Time'. The order UTC was picked because in French it would be Temps Universel Coordonné and basically because the French and English can't get along (they claim it's to avoid confusion) and everybody wanted the abbreviation to be the same in all languages they went with one that doesn't work in either language.
THE NUMBERS, MASON. WHAT DO THEY MEAN?
DJCDavisDubstep I THOUGHT THE SAME THING
DJCDavisDubstep I loved and miss bo1 days
The numbers *Jason*
REEEEEESSSSSNNNNOOOOOVVV
This is another great episode from you guys but I swear one of these days there a knock on your doors and a couple of guys in black suits will start asking "questions" about your activities.
It's only a matter of time.
Jason Murphy Let's just hope that none of those guys have a russian accent and a black van with guys that are armed with AK's 'cause Modern Rogue is one of my personal favorite on this site.
Bloodangel.13 I recognise your profile pic, if I said 'sunstone' would you keep going?
There's nothing risky or illegal in listening to numbers stations. All of their data is encrypted into a string of numbers, and by comparing the numbers to a one-time pad (only good for one transmission), you can decrypt the data and obtain the message. Without either the pad, or the transcript of the transmission, you can never crack the code.
@PG21justus It's Ally's "AllyCat" profile pic.
@Josh Rice But If they do. They'll be in a world of trouble.
i would watch a youtube stream of you guys doing this.
10/10
Tim Combs Me too
Listen to UVB-76
It’s a Russian radio station that has very weird noises but very rarely you can hear people talking
BZZZZT
might be the scariest one
If it silences the Game will be over
@@Overlanding_Exploring Except it stops multiple times a year for maintenance, and up to several times a day to transmit voice messages lmao
yea 4625 kHz
You have opened a can of worms, this truly is addicting!
so much fun, right??
yeah im actually going to that website cause im bored and sick
@@ModernRogue did you two ever get a ham license?
English isn’t easy for everyone huh? *addictive
@@imprwikiimprwiki6898 what can you expect, some native English speakers still confuse "your" with "you're".
There's a spy out there taking a break and watching this, going SH*T THEY'RE ONTO ME
There actually sending assassins to your neighborhood to silence you and make you disappear
The Modern Rouge: The Number Station series, WE NEED THIS
HenryS Steam I really think we should.
Then Just DO IT
*insert Shia LeBouf motivational speech*
“Modern rouge”
Ok baguette boi
"i feel like my nose is about to start bleeding" that had me dying.
You guys, this thing is so cool. I fount The Voice of Korea, which is the main North Korean radio station!!!! This is so cool thank you for introducing me to this!
You can also listen to Voice Of Korea online via their homepage (only genuine if the name of the glorious leader is in a larger font size than the rest). You only need to install their custom player software. I mean, what could possibly go wrong? x-D
I found them too. I listen to them from russia
An episode on getting a HAM radio licence would be interesting
yes! that's on the list, for sure.
@@ModernRogue Please!!!!!!!!
@@ModernRogue 2 years later, were still waiting...
You should try to intercept NOAA weather satellite images using SDR
oh, wow--
Also real time intercept of ADS-B signals from aircraft, see them flying towards you on a ADS-B map application then look up in the sky to see it fly overhead.
You can and its called WEFAX "WEATHER FAX" you need the free decoder called FLDIGI to decode it but with UtwenteSDR its hard to get a good a signal unless you record it first and then play it back in FlDigi and you get the image
I saw another youtuber from Montreal do that with a GOES, it's probably easier from Austin because it's closer to the equator.
I found a Conversation coming from a Russian Helicopter between a Man and Woman! Really far at the end of the spectrum. 27000ish or something. Really cool thing.
Pete the Paper Boat DUDE i don’t know if you will see this but omg I found the convo you were talking about, it’s pretty weird and confusing that it’s still broadcasting to this day
For anyone who wants to listen, 27122.44 am
@@alanpalayoor9251 that's just people talking on CB, nothing cryptic
niemand gelooft dat ik engels ben Well it’s still pretty lit, thanks for informing me!
I put 271 and heard a conversation going on, language i dont understand but still fascinating
Damnit I'm addicted to this channel.
Thank you!
Clever Name Here You're welcome!
I still use shortwave radio and like hunting down various things. I like hooking a spec A up and then running the feed to my computer which produces a waterfall record showing various signal characteristics. One of my favorites is the different OTH radars you can see and then identifying them based upon their RF characteristics.
I'm sure someone pointed this out, but you guys are also in the USB mode when browsing through, hence the tone, which is the centerline frequency. The stations where it's news and the like are actually full wave AM signals with a central carrier frequency. Since you guys are in Upper side band, you are only picking up that little bit. You can change to AM mode down there in the menu, set the frequency you want, and the demodulation removes the carrier tone.
USB means Upper Side Band.
LSB is lower side band
Am is amplitude modulation
FM is Frequency modulation
CW is Carrier wave.
Most data signals you pick up are best listened to on USB mode. If you then use the Ham Radio deluxe program, you can take and record the signals yourself, then demodulate them using known modulation modes such as PSK-31 which is a very common modulation method used by Amateur radio enthusiasts.
Yeah lol it was kinda hard to watch them do that
@@NorthRoyalton Yes it truely was xD
Ive adored number stations for years. Im so glad more people find them fascinating. :)
How to find the dark web and how to find number stations what next from these guys "best places to burry a body"
It's . . . it's crossed my mind.
Best place to bury a body? Everglades, done.
Best way to dispose of a body? They could teach everyone how to make piranha solution, which would be a bad idea. But mythbusters pretty much did it already so how bad could it be?
Nah, Siri has that one covered!
Best place to burry a body
Page 2 of google search results
Jason Murphy Sooooo erm I'm calling the police
Shortwave listening is fascinating because of the amount of activity on it. For a real hunt try the low bands below the AM commercial band. There is a band down around 165 to 190 Khz that has active users mostly using one watt non-licensed transmitters to usually broadcast beacon signals usually with Morse code in extremely slow rates of perhaps half a minute per dot. The band is referred to as "Lowfer".
I think I might have just found a numbers station, or at least a station that is definitely using some type of code (and a tiny bit of morse code at the end of each "cycle"). You don't hear actual numbers, but they might be what is being encoded, or it might be used for similar purposes.
I looked it up and apparently it's a russian military frequency 4250. There's nothing more cold war than russian code so I think this counts as a find.
It sounds like something you might hear on the Death Star.
Try recording on a Pentium III laptop running XP. I have a few recordings using that back in '05
TheCptCoy Hi! I know I'm a bit late but in case you're still interested, that frequency you found (4250) is indeed a Russian military frequency. The constant beeping is merely the Russians 'reserving' the frequency so to speak. By broadcasting a powerful signal such as the one you heard, nobody will try to use it. Hope you find this interesting!
Wait can they trace back your frequency of your phone and call you?
@@the123king lol! I still use a WinXP PC!!!
These sets of videos last year set me on a path. I am now a general class amatuer radio operator. Thanks for giving me a hobby
I've always loved shortwave. When I heard my first numbers station in 1983, I thought it might be somebody testing a transmitter. Then I learned that at a shortwave listeners' club that it was a coded message. At present, I just hear Cuban spy station transmissions in the afternoons. Tune around and you'll often find a Spanish female voice reading off numbers and then some sort of data transmission. The beauty of this system is that the spies are untraceable. The transmitter can reach field operatives using a cheap radio and a pad posted to a special drop box. Even in a place with no Internet, an operative can get the message. That's the beauty of shortwave. No Internet or satellite is required. It also helps to know where the signals will be on the band. I prefer a tuning knob rather than UP/DOWN buttons. Even so, it's thrilling to hear these coded messages.
one of 2 things will happen
1: this is the last we see of these 2
2: Jason starts dressing in black and vomiting all over Brian yelling "HAIL THE DARK LORD!"
Item 2 is actually how I greet him all the time.
hmmm
remind me to invite you to my sisters house. im sure she would love that hehe
Cool: I just found a SSTV station at 4581.55! Man, this thing is addictive: shortwave.themodernrogue.com
The Modern Rogue y'all always cover very interesting topics, cheers to you two 🍻
The Modern Rogue cool
i swear iv almost caused me to be single, with sstv.... it was VERY early in the AM when i watched that episode of modern rogues.... and you know i fired up the phone and started sending my self nonsense....... she wasn't amused :-O
Thanks, KDK5-12.
Sweet, covering webSDR, so many wasted hours and it's totally worth it.
To 1up your setup, you could use a cheap dvbt-dongle (the ones to receive tv broadcasts to a computer) to scan the air transmissions in your local area, the guys at Hak5 covered this in a few segments.
I just heard "LAUNCH, LAUNCH, LAUNCH" is that NASA or ww3?
jinxmaster1 both?
what frequency?
Toriyama bringing Launch back confirmed?
I think its you trying to create something.
jinxmaster1 Thats just me trying to run csgo on my toaster
I thought everybody completely forgot about numbers stations and I remembered them a few months ago and I've been waiting for new videos about them for SOOOO LONG thank you guys omfg.
"you felt scared and alone, because the world was going to end at any minute" welcome to 2020
I was just watching wondering if shortwave radio is the future of free speech. :s
welcome to 2022
KM6FPP checking in. :) SDR IS LIFE.
Nice!! Holy crap it's an amazing place. I'm glad we haven't crashed it yet :-)
I prefer analog radios my self call sign is ZS6RDH
Shannon do you do any DMR?
8:03. Great Job you found the wop. It was already a famous radio.
Care to give some info?
Hey, I had been following this channel for a while, and I just saw that episode of Fool Us that you were in, that was awesome!
Ian Mitchell Also the guy from scam school
Right on! Glad you liked it.
The Modern Rogue do a stream of this so that people can tell you frequencies live
Max Mick I don't think this is that kinda channel...
UVB 76 aka. The Buzzer, is on 4625.00 kHz.
4625 usb
suck a cool thing
I remember years ago a buddy told me about numbers stations. We found an old radio and fooled around and actually found one. It was here in the Chicago area and the chime was like a midi 'somewhere over the rainbow' then random numbers. Very cool thing to find RIP Gary (1990-2021)
Your videos are awesome. How many people does it take to film / produce them?
It just feels like you have so many people working on them! They're produced like a high end tv show.
Tommy Callaway Thanks! There are 5 of us
Thanks for the answer. Keep it up - your channel is freakin blowing up.
This episode was actually just four of us, but these days we usually have five on board. I try to keep the title card and the description up to date and accurate for each episode as far as who worked on each one.
+Jason Murphy thank you for teaming up the mr brushwood. I have e been watching him for years and yours is a face that compliments his completely. all 5 of you are legends in the making. keep it real but also safe, we want to enjoy you guys for years to come.
Your videos are just absolutely amazing! These things you discuss are just amazing! Keep up the amazing videos!
Thanks!!
Oh just great! Like I _needed_ another time-consuming thing to become obsessed with! I'd be worse than Brian.
Great thing about those codes is that they are totally unbreakable because, unless you're one of the very few people in the know about that particular usage of the number/word/phrase/nursery rhyme _at the time period it's being used_ by that particular station, there's no way to understand it.
"73" can mean different things to different people on different days listening to different radio stations and there's no way anyone else listening in can tell if that particular message means "instructions waiting at the dead drop", "all clear to assassinate the target", "your cover has been blown" or "come home, your wife misses you."
“THE NUMBERS MASON WHAT DO THEY MEAN “
- JASON HUDSON
........ *breathing hard* where am I?
*Heavy fast breathing* ......WHERE’S REZNOV?!
dude,your not lying.that shortwave radio is hella addictive.so i'm at the computer with headphones looking for numbers stations,ET,Czechoslovakian sports radio,anything really.my wife needing my attention pulls out the headphone jack and blaring out the speakers,which are of coarse turned to 11,comes white noise with intermittent whistles and beeps.the look of confusion on her face was priceless.i think she thought i had finally snapped.
right?? It's like a black hole you get sucked into, exploring around.
THE NUMBERS, MASON! WHAT DO THEY MEAN?!
I don't know.
They spell disaster for you.
@@dentalhams Numbers ordered mason to kill JFK
9:18 "John Has A Long Mustache. John Has A Long Mustache."
Great Classic movie ❗️
📻🙂
I really love diving into these secreta all around us, makes me wanna be part of it, of some secret, dark, dangerous life, like a spy, or something.
experimental audio engineer and music producer/sound designer here. that shortwave website is a goldmine. thank you so much. this is an alietoric noise music dream come true, and so much more. so many instruments, wavetables, weird samples and processed fx will come out of this.
Can't believe this video is 6 years old! One of my favs
Another interesting thing is that China has a jammer to interfere with the Taiwan Voice of Hope stations. There's also some stations telling people to rise up against their government.
I was wondering why I couldnt hear those stations
*****
cool I've seen some of your videos
Found someone sending out nothing but E E E E E E E E
Edit: Nope. User error.
just now? got a frequency?
7027.3kHz
huh. Sounds like morse code to me.
It decodes to E E E E E E E. Scratch that. I can't get this automatic decoder to read it write.
haha, np
Surprised you didn't talk about the weird number-station-esque youtube channels, e.g. Webdriver Torso
Didn't know about that, but I'm definitely curious.
www.cracked.com/article_22242_5-baffling-mysteries-with-silly-explanations.html
webdriver is on that
I eat ass and fap to webdriver torso vids every day.
Webdriver Torso is just a diagnostics channel run by TH-cam itself to test upload quality.
+sweiland75 tha's what the government wants you to think
When I was a kid, I used to sleep outside in a tent all summer, and my Dad had made a Heathkit radio that I kept in that tent. I used to listen to all kinds of stuff, and came across a few numbers stations when playing with the short wave portion. It also had FM, AM, Police, Aviation and others, but all I ever got was Cool AM stations way far away (WOWO Ft Wayne is the only one I recall by call leters) and occasionally unknown SW stations. 99.5 WRNO New Orleans used to broadcast SW, might still.
Wowow! The Shortwave Spectrum Tool is so so freakin' cool!!! I have a Grundig SW radio but haven't used it to troll SW in years... this tool brings back all the "magic" of scrolling thru SW frequencies I enjoyed!
Oh man, just got done with this. You are in for a treat. There is so much crap in that small section. That's not even all of it. There's stuff clear up to like 440mhz! This starts at about 1.8mhz, just above am radio, then there's stuff all over. If you're looking for data, look up the ham band plan and it will tell you what's where. There's Morse code, any kind of digital you want including digital voice now! There's AM like what you show with a line and fuzzy on each side, or ssb which is just AM that's been chopped in half. It'll just look like half of the AM. If you get in touch, I can even transmit you a live sstv picture to one of these for your show. This is just my thing, and I'm excited to help
Dude, that thing is a magical black hole of time. It's like exploring a shadow world out there!
The Modern Rogue As much as I enjoy my ham license, I really hate how it makes all the clocks in the house run faster.
"they transmit tones so you know you are getting close"
No, it's called Doppler shift.
No it's not. Doppler effect only occurs when a source or reciever is moving in the direction of transmission. So unless the listening station is a satellite or the broadcasts do come from space, it's intentional.
I'm pretty sure that's just how DSB AM works, even Citizens Band radios do that
I was so intrigued by number stations many years ago they’re so creepy and mysterious!!!
Same here. For me it still doesn't pass, I'm as intrigued as I used to be years ago.
Thanks for a new addiction, been scanning the water fall for 2 days now! Come across some interesting stuff!
came here straight from a video of the Lincolnshire poacher broadcast, it was such a trip to hear you two listening to it at the start of the video 😵💫
Am I the only one who only knows what numbers stations because of Black Ops 1
Nah, me too.
More people know about number stations because of Black Ops 1 than people who are actually interested in this stuff. Afraid not.
Reksrat nah I got it from metal gear. (And I'm not just one of those twats who thinks they know mg because I only played 5. I'm playing them all. Just sayin'.)
This. Most were turned off in the early/mid 2000's as internet access and mobile/cell phones largely replaced the role of traditional numbers stations.
yes because you are the only human being who has played black ops
A little late to the show but in the early weeks of the Ukraine conflict I Intercepted a few instances of people using nato phonetic mixed with Russian speech. Some of it was distinctly military language.
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UVB-76 is my favorite, it's supposedly a "Dead Man's Switch" for supposed nuclear retaliations
is that the buzzer?
The Modern Rogue yeah! Granted, the lore behind it is much more interesting than the station itself.
4625 kHz
The idea that the Cold Wars, plural, are over, or rather that modern shadow wars aren't always continuously evolving, is so quaint.
at 09:05 they hear a russian speech, saying:
{something indistinct x2} 0 0 4 3
... ноль ноль четвёрка тройка
Sounds like coordinates
@@qhxoexcci nope.
Русский?
8:18 It's confirmed! Jason Murphy is turned on by shortwave radio!
We had numbers stations out of new York years ago. Some of you may not remember we deported a group of Russians. I sorta suspected the signals I was hearing was more localized. Weeks or a couple months later- my suspicions were indeed confirmed. There are Signals being transmitted in secret in our home towns. Someone in their attic or cellar to someone in the woods or from a corporate building for example. Sending out sensitive data and its happening as you read this. The fun is in the CATCH indeed! Never knowing whom or where its being sent.
I had an Emerson short wave radio receiver growing up in the Eighties, you ran a wire from it to the window screen at night, it was no joke, it was alive! I spoke German at the time and I'd hear all kinds of stuff from East Germany, Russia, Czechoslovakia, you name it. I haven't had a shortwave since 1995, I'd love to get another one.
Best youtube channel I've subscribed to in a long time. Not one bad video!
Brushwood needs to get his Amateur Radio license and host a field day with Adam Curry.
Haha next week:
Jason: Let's check in on Brian, shall we? >_>
Brian: 😳😨😨😨 (notices Jason) ☹️😠 GET OOUUUTT!!
Jason: (zooms out and closes the door) . . . Brian's busy, at the moment. We'll check back in next week! :D . . . 😰
😹 I could see this happening. A series just on this.
Lori Wolfcat I literally had to drag him away so we could film more.
I was really hoping you would bring up the Twente Online SDR, it's the easiest way to capture that one notorious number station in Russia, and many others.
What area of the spectrum should I be at if I want to find them
This is so awesome! I used to listen to those number channels as a child, usually in the dark at night before bedtime thinking, "Wow, I ve got no idea what this is, but those could be secret messages for spies!" How cool that other people listened to this too! Thank you so much for this video, I'm going to try this, thank you so much for all the info!!!😄🇮🇪👍🍀
I'm addicted!! I've looked things up, and have an old radio scanner. I just need to identify which sounds are radar antenna, and broadcast signals now. I'm needing out!
"I miss the Cold War."
@HamAndShortwaveRadio well
The numbers mason! What do they mean?!?!?
@@Qira I REMEMBER! *AAAAAAAAA* VORKUTA!!!!!
Number station right now on 1924khz at 1:50UTC on march 27th...using the SDR radio from Twente....university...
That's an unusually low frequency for a numbers station. It's not much above the 160m amateur band and mw am broadcast radio. It isn't as reliable for international broadcasting. Not bad at night but too much D layer atmospheric attenuation but even at night it wouldn't be as good as the higher shortwave frequencies.
I was meant to say too much D layer atmospheric attenuation during the day.
7:02 - Microsoft Edge attempts to weasel it's way into the number one spot.
One of our favorite episodes
I use that SDR receiver from the University of Twente, and I agree, it's highly addictive to listen to! Most recently I picked up the Container Over The Horizon radar from Russia, it's a slightly faster version of the old DUGA 3 "Russian Woodpecker" OTH radar that was shut down in the 1990's.
you should listen to ubv-76 the buzzer
yeah, that one's got some haunting lore around it.
I've spent hours listening to the Buzzer, The Pip and the Squeaky Wheel live. Haven't caught any of the rare voice transmissions though. Ran across a numbers station earlier today reading off 5 figure groups In English. I didn't notate the frequency though. :(
"Legitimate content like propaganda."
Found a weird distorted voice one at 254.51 on USB.
Logan Rodrigues go back to 252 it's some French station
252 KHz is a Longwave station, either RTÉ Radio 1 (Ireland), or Radio Algeria. Change from USB to AM and you'll copy it better.
@@ado75 They shut down RTE radio 1 on longwave a few years ago
My dad was a Ham radio operator in the Navy this is so awesome
You guys rock, thanks for the link to the swr. I found it like 2 yrs ago and lost it when my phone died. I use to listen to all the time.
Ever heard of the TH-cam channel "Webdriver Torso"? It's just a huge, unsolved mystery.
no, but this sounds awesome. Link me?
it has been explained 50k times so not really a huge mystery
It has been explained many times.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webdriver_Torso
*Looks up "webdriver torso"*
Me: okayyy...
*Looks up "Luna"*
Screen: OKAY I R NORMAL NOWZ
Me: ???????
there's too many normies on the website looking for "number stations" >"hey guys i found this number station, *puts frequency for a pager* "
Universal Time Code?
More like Temps Universel Coordonné (Coordinated Universal Time)
We're dumb.
Correct. UTC. There are others yet all similar, GMT and Sidereal Time. The earth day is not a perfect 24hrs. Hence leap years.
What is really cool is decoding CW, from the Ham bands...I think this program will do it...
this is basically like being able to hear EVERYTHING but "everything" also involve not-interested parts, this is a cool way to hide information honestly xd