HM01 - The Ultimate Radio Mystery
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Today we look deeper into numbers stations, specifically HM01; a broadcast out of Cuba used for spy networks to communicate.
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Very nice video! I listen to shortwave radio very regularly and I even have a show that is broadcast worldwide on shortwave via radio station WRMI in Florida with 100 kW transmitters. Numbers stations were what got me hooked originally and I hear the Cuban Lady (HM01) all the time at my location in Florida with pretty good reception normally.
Wow it's the shortwave GOAT! You probably get great reception in Florida. I listen to your VORW show whenever it airs and I love it. Thanks for helping keep shortwave alive and well. 73!
@@theVHSvlog That's so awesome!! It's great to have you as a listener - as long as people continue listening to shortwave I'll keep doing my show, there still is an audience in North America!
I was just looking to find videos that would fulfill my craving for whatever these radio things are, an explanation. The last person I'd expect to see in this comments section is yourself. Good to see you here.
So glad to find you here Mr. Brah!! I have watched your videos for years, has made for some great evenings when I am dining alone.!
I’ve commented on several of your videos regarding shortwave, CB, and ham radio.
I’m more of a general electronics nerd, but became interested in frequency standards, which brought me into radio and ham in particular.
It’s something I know you would enjoy! You would be amazed how easy and inexpensive it can be to set up a small tinkering workspace… Complete with project radios, soldering equipment, a multimeter, an oscilloscope, and a few other goodies. Imagine the joy of repairing a radio, then putting it back into daily service!!
If you have any questions feel free to contact me. It’s much simpler than the voodoo it’s made out to be. RF can be complicated at times… But it isn’t black magic like so many complain 😂!
I'm been listening to numbers stations for 50 years. This is the most informative thing I've ever discovered about them. Thanks, and 73s!
When I was 12-13 years old, in the early 1950s, I lived on Okinawa as a US military brat. One of my buddies had a big short-wave radio and antenna. Late at night he would find and let me hear the most amazing sounds, like Chinese and Russian propaganda stations aimed at (for example) Central Asian and North Burma/Laotian tribes (we assumed). They played strange music and speeches in languages I'd never heard before. He lived on an isolated peninsula (Okuma) in the north of the island, and he showed me how he tuned in automobile ignition radio noises, and how he used that to predict the arrival of visitors half an hour in advance. That's how few cars there were in part of Okinawa in those days. I also used to lie in bed at night with my dad's portable on my chest, and tune in the entire Far East. Those were the days.
Hey wasn't that before t.v.
appears like a great childhood experience.
The island must have been so beautiful back then. I was there in 84 and was in an island paradise.
Did you ever meet or hear about Lee Harvey Oswald? He was at the U2 Spy Base in Okinawa I believe in the later 1950's.
I remember setting my alarm clock radio to a random AM frequency and the next morning I was woken up by this numbers station. Needless to say I was extremely creeped out.
Lmao!!!! Imagine if I accidentally found the Buzzer or squeaky wheel?
@@rainbowrailroadcrossing7798 well there's the officialswlchannel that teaches to get on the buzzer channel
@@IodizedNaCL yep they’re very helpful I use a websdr I sorta figured it out
@@rainbowrailroadcrossing7798 i recomend the utwente WebSDR server... on WebSDR
I heard the gongs and chimes numbers station in my dream once and I was scared shitless. I was in a dark interrogation room just in a chair with tunes sticking in me just having it blasted at me.
When I was a kid, my grandfather, a ham radio guru, gave me an old shortwave receiver. I unspooled the thin wire out of a small transformer and ran around under the eaves of the house and back in the window for a giant loop. At night I could get Radio Kiev and Radio South Africa. In the 60's that was a way cool thing. Rest in Peace, W6BQL...
Hmm... Catch any Beyond Midnight?
Norway has forbidden transmission of FM-radiowaves. Crazy, but true.
Ken Jackson and then I rigged a power cord to my looped antenna hoping for better reception. That night the house burned to the ground while my grandpa slept. The End
@@South_0f_Heaven_ You're a special kind of stupid, aren't you...bless your heart...
@Ken Jackson
Was meant as humor, calm down pal. It takes a special kind of stupid to not see that.
As a kid, I'm 73 now, I used to tune our old tube radios to static. Some of the static was VERY interesting and I imagined they were messages from space.
They were.....they are watching you now.
@@Fabformcatering yeah I know. they were over for dinner last night. Eghif told a joke " what do you call an Digga with a Sulillo? ans: "A Zzivcha!" that guys a real card.
As an amateur radio operator for more that 45 years and wireless technology designer for 30 years, I commend you on your nicely done description of the radio spectrum and use.
Thank you!
When Google finally finishes completely turning YT into a social programming machine, SW may be the best method of communication.
Again.
Yes they are moving to make the internet as controlled, censored and limited as TV, newspapers, etc.
@@AffectedArea one fact applys and that fact is The great big Google machine is about moneytiz'n every second and every kb of bandwidth .
Actually its not a message. Copy and paste into notepad save as a .com file and when you execute the program it will ask for a password in russian.
@@videosuperhighway7655 dude... 7/10. Cool story bro :D
Numbers stations are not new. I can recall being in the Middle East in the 1970s hearing radio stations saying "The following broadcast is for testing purposes only, from the Moscow Radiotelephone Station" And then they would launch in to a series of cipher codes.
Rumor has it that on Christmas Eve many decades ago, they added "greetings to our friends in the CIA."
They know what's going on, we know what's going on, and they know we know. It's a great big game of cat and mouse.
Jacob Brodsky good thing I wouldn't want either one to be getting over on the other
Number statins go back to the 40s. Probably earlier.
As a kid in Australia, I would regularly hear a woman repeating numbers via a walkie talkie in the early 80s. It wasn't until the 90s that I learned that this was a numbers station. They have fascinated me ever since.
You think she was on a walkie talkie or you were using the walkie talkie?
@@CLoak183 I was using the walkie talkie. It was a quite solid toy from a toy store with a radio function as well. I would sometimes turn on the walkie talkie just to listen to the static and the occasional transmissions that came through. I wish I was able to work out the frequency that the walkie talkie used, it might help identify the number station.
raksh9 I has a similar experience when I was a kid in Southern California. This would have been in the late 70’s/early 80’s. Freaked me out.
As a kid in Australia in the late 70s/80s I used to always pick up numbers stations on my parents SW radio, there was quite a few. I'm also certain I remember picking up the Russian Woodpecker on more than one occasion.
@paul austin I still have the toy walkie talkie, I wonder if there is a way to know what frequency it operates at? What makes you say 27 Mhz?
It's sad to say that so many people don't actually know what amateur radio is. I'm 14 and I am so excited about HAM radio. Keep looking forward!
It's such a fun hobby!
I'm 17 and got mine when I was 16. I wish more young people like us would get into it. I try to get friends into it but they just don't want to put in the effort to get licensed...glad to see someone young into it.
73 de KC3LMP
@@joemancino9049 I have to chuckle at hearing someone who's 17, calling someone who's 14, "young." At 60, both seem pretty young to me! :)
Good to see you're interested in amateur radio. I was 13 when I sent for a one valve radio kit (H.A.C.) and my Dad showed me how to solder, about 6 connections, it used 90 Volt and 3 Volt batteries, dropped to 2 Volt with a resistor for the heater, with 2,000 Ω headphones. I remember hearing number stations and this was in the mid-1970's.
I like building stuff and have built lots over the years, valves , then transistors and then i.c.'s., I have my all H.F. i.c. and MOSFET tcvr built 21 years ago, now working on a 19 Set from WW2, restored but tatty and modified to use xtals on transmit for stability. Gone backwards recently and built a one valve xtal C.W. transmitter. I love C.W. and QRP.
73, Bill, G4GHB.
Yayy I thought I was the youngest one who has this interest I’m 22
AA5ID here. I was also fascinated with radio from the time I was a small child. I could travel around the country through AM clear channel signals I received such as WBBM in Chicago. I later discovered my dad’s transistor shortwave radio in his dresser drawer and could travel the world. I loved the mysterious numbers stations, time signals, etc... I listened often to powerful HCJB in Quito, Ecuador. Many years later I would travel to Quito and tour their studios and transmitter sites and I became good friends with their engineers whom I frequently ran phone patches for on our missionary ham radio net. I was even interviewed on HCJB once. That was cool. For several years I had my own shortwave program on Voice of Hope, 17.775 MHz. I even got to hear my program in the jungle of Venezuela as it was beamed from Chatsworth, CA. We were installing an LPFM radio station there. I grew up during the Cold War era and I was intrigued by a shortwave station in Albania, ‘Radio Tirana’. At the time, Albania was a closed communist country. Years later I had the pleasure and privilege of helping put the first Christian FM radio station on the air in Tirana. Our ministry operated a missionary ham radio net on the 10, 15, 20 and 40 meter bands for thirty four years. We ran thousands of phone patches for missionaries overseas to their families here in the U. S. Over 70,000 ham radio operators in 150+ countries checked in on our nets during that time. Radio has been a fun hobby and a useful tool. I have dozens of stories about my experiences with radio. 73 and 99 de AA5ID (Kelly - Midland, TX USA)
shortwave is not a dying medium... shortwave will never completely die
shortwave in digital now DRM nice warm audio
Agreed!
No! I like the crackling sound of HF static in the background as the SW transmission fades in and out!
@@CLoak183 Conditions will improve on the HF Bands at the next solar cycle, there is even a British company called Worlford Electronics, who build and sell kit form transceivers of about 1Watt using simple analogue components (like found in the bottom of an energy saving light bulb). I copied someone using one the length of The UK mobile. I'm on QRZ.COM and have nearly 2000 look-ups! Neither is CB dead or dying there is a regular south England net called The Devils Dyke Net. LOOK THE ANSWER IS IF YOU DON'T LIKE THIS SORT OF THING FXXXXXG PXXS OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!AND DON'T TROLL ON WEB SITES YOU AREN'T INTERESTED IN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@control9179 Dude! Chill bruh.. I'm from the old school. Ham radio going silent because of all the digital platforms, in particular the vhf and uhf bands. Everybody has run off into their own digital closed on air chat rooms! I like old school radio static and all!!
Just some corrections:
The AM broadcast radio signals in the MF band do not just travel along the ground. They tend to do just that during the day, but that is because the D layer in the ionosphere absorbs the lower frequencies when active. At night, ionospheric propagation is perfectly possible in the medium wave band, which is precisely why you can hear AM broadcast stations from all over the world shortly after sunset. This is what allowed you to hear the Chicago radio station - you said yourself... on a summer's night.
You refer to AM as if it is a band. AM is a type of modulation. You can just as easily broadcast FM in the medium wave band, and also, you can broadcast AM in the VHF band. In fact, all air traffic uses AM, and they transmit on VHF. Frequency is the determining factor when it comes to propagation, not modulation type.
Correct. Some ham radio transmitters can use AM.
@@rutabagasteu
I know I'm correct.
When referring to the AM band, that's generally taken to mean the 535-1605 kHz band used for broadcast AM radio. The layperson doesn't know that it's possible to use any modulation scheme on any frequency, if you have enough bandwidth.
Haha yes, and the MUF or Maximum Useable Frequency is determined by the Sun, the Earth, and even Meteors leaving ionised trails.. Boulder Co. is one place that bounces signals from the different reflective layers to help HAM and other (mostly HF operators) determine which frequencies to use for certain propagation paths. Embassies are a "user" for example.
And then there are shadow ops and PSYops. But you know this, too bad that so many do not. Worth truly getting into HAM radio, it might save butt one day. Take care and good luck, de VE7EBA
@@AltheRad "And then there are shadow ops and PSYops"
You sounded almost normal until this point.
Your blend of graphics, audio and text made this both clear and suspenseful. Great job.
Another reason for the difference in AM and FM radio towers is that for FM the Antenna is at the top of the tower, for AM the tower is the antenna and so it has to be resonant for the station's frequency, which means that a tower for a station at 1400 KHZ will be shorter than a tower for station at 550 KHZ. The tower also has a system of radials buried underground and arranged like spokes in a wheel.
I was a pirate radio enthusiast. In high school I designed and built mobile rig that operated on the Broadcast AM band wherein the oscillator on operated when I keyed the transmitter. I could not be tracked unless I was transmitting,which drove the FCC nuts.
I got, “Be sure to drink your Ovaltine”
Dont shoot your eye out.
I came to the comments to say that!
Steve Greenfield Sorry Steve, beat ya to it!
Good one!
haha "Ovaltine" is not common in Cuba this days
Thank you young man. That was a good intro into the subject and simplified enough for the casual listener to follow without loosing too much relevant information. I've been professionally involved with the transmission and reception of radio for nearly 40 years. It is easy to get bogged down with technical detail, but that just puts off none experts and informal hobbyists. Well done and 73!
Been a Ham since I was 15. I'm 72 now. Started with an old Detrola AM-SW receiver that my Dad gave me one summer after my best friend moved away and I was sorta lost. He popped it on my desk and I said " I have a transistor radio". Dad hooked a wire from the back to a screw on the heating register and turned it on. Being all tubes it took a bit to start working. So I tuned it to 1360, WSAI, the local rock station. I said "well ok... it has a nice speaker". Dad then said "throw that switch and tune around on the bottom scale of the dial". I got the BBC. Now that got my attention! I was 12 and was really blown away. Then I discovered 80 meters and kids my age talking to each other... Ham Radio. That old radio opened a world that I still enjoy. It's sitting off to my right on a shelf. The caps are probably all dried out and shorted. One of these days I'll restore it if I can find the schematic.
Hey Jim! That's a fantastic story and I'm glad radio has brought you so much joy over the years. I hope you can restore that radio someday soon
@@theVHSvlog So part 2 to the story.. being a 13 yr old I took it apart.. took the chassis out or the wooden cabinet to see what the bottom looked like. My Mom saw what I did and she said let's strip the old paint off and repaint it. So we did. And we discovered really a really nice burl wood cabinet which I refinished with clear lacquer. She had some cloth that I made a speaker cover out of. That's the way it sits today.
Great job explaining the RF spectrum and numbers stations. I've been a shortwave listener all my life and a ham radio operator since 1973, I remember first hearing numbers stations from eastern Europe in the late 50's. At least one station moved to Cuba by 1964, and that became known as HR 01, so the Russians have been at this a long time. I've also monitored other numbers station that are clearly not Russian and are probably CIA or MI5 operations. It would make sense that what works for the Russians would work for the West too. I wonder if these are regularly monitored by the opposing sides? The frequencies used rarely change so I assume the one time pad really is efficient enough that the messages are uncrackable. The only way to decode them is to catch a spy using a supply of one time pads, and then only for the period the one time pads are in operation, probably not for more than a few days to a week. By the time even the highest speed computer would be able to decode the first message by brute force, a new series of one time pads is in use and you have to start all over. Pretty secure for such a simple system.
Something about getting a Radio Shack book on antennas back in the 80s and have been fascinated ever since. :)
I remember hearing number stations here in the UK when I was a kid, my Dad was a a bit of a ham. He used to monitor Russian morse transmissions as an RAF radio operator in the late 50's... still plays with his short wave rig, he's 83!!
i got myself a shortwave radio relatively recently, so that i could recieve uvb-76, after i heard about it in a youtube video, which seems super cool to me. ill be looking forward to trying to recieve this one
I love shortwave because it is so organic. Not controlled by some huge media conglomerate, and accessible to ordinary people to do what they want. You hear some really weird stuff on shortwave which is what makes it interesting.
I remember the golden age in the 1980s and 1990s when radio propagation was phenomenal. With a three watt AM walkie talkie, I was able to talk from Saskatchewan, Canada to Puebla, Mexico. It was an amazing time to be in a radio hobby. Today, is probably one of the bleakest times to be in a radio hobby. From 15megacycles up to 30 megacycles, there is very little propagation with the solar index being a mere 65. When I was a child, I wanted to be an amateur radio operator so badly. Now, there is not much reason to get my license. Radio propagation is pitiful on a good day. On a bad day, it is nonexistent. Modern times are crushing to any radio hobby, from CB radio all the way up to the most advanced amateur radio modes and power.
Is the change in solar index the main contributing factor?
@@theVHSvlog Yes, we are entering a grand solar minimum in which several solar minimums are happening at once. The ones we are familiar with are the eleven year cycles. But then there are two more that are coinciding with the usual eleven year minimum. Radio propagation is likely the worse it has been ever. Then add to it that modern satellite communication and Internet are completely running all the time and people have lost interest in radio transmitting. To top things off, the HF world wide equipment is very expensive as compared to VHF and UHF equipment. It is a recipie for the bleak times on the radio bands today. Everything from 15 megacycles to the amateur and public UHF frequencies is nearly dead. My once favourite hobby is dying a horrible death.
Today's dismal solar flux index is 66 on 27 April 2019.
Theres also a lot more interference especially 5-42mhz or so from all the electronics people use compared to what we had in the 1980's. The noise floor is much higher than it used to be and most likely will only get worse.
@@davidca96 These are bleak times for any sort of radio hobby.
@@indridcold8433 Not really.. see reply above. Sure it is not GREAT, but it is not that bad either. We just use different techniques.
Nice video and explanation of one time pads (OTP). There are a number of other OTP systems in use which are simpler. We used a different one in the army to send encrypted messages by voice. The interesting bit about OTPs is that they are the only provably perfectly secure uncrackable encryption system that exists providing the messages are short (a function of the length of the pad) and the pads rotate frequently. They are essentially perfect encryption when used properly despite their simplicity. That said, if your pad is compromised then all bets are off.
I am a general class amateur radio operator, and I do a lot of HF DXing around the 20-meter ham band around the center frequency 14.286 MHz and that is the AM calling channel for 20 meters, Ham radio is a very interesting hobby and I have always loved radio as a kid anyway. the way it started out is that I knew a volunteer firefighter that I called Fluffy, and he had a scanner that he would let me listen to the fire band lol, that's where UI discovered the hobby of radio. as time went on, I became an avid CB radio operator and would be on late at nights just listening to the skip roll. then in 2003 things really took off, I got my first license which I still have to this day which was the tech no code. then in I think 2007 I upgraded and have been general class since. I really cannot get enough of the hobby in other words lol. 20 years as of October 19 this year.
Got my start on good ol CB,.... Shooting skip on SSB was fun. It was illegal at one time but now its perfectly legal!!!
Same as me mate
I still run on old 1970's era CB in my semi truck.
some of those tones remind me of the tapes I used to use on my BBC acorn computer to program it
Amazing to see a radio related mystery, good job man
*listens to the opening 90's VCR tape techno beat* duuuuude.... Nostalgia!
HM01 contains Cut! This move can be taught to one of your Pokemon!
Relatively new ham operator, fueled by fascination with how numerous and far reaching radio transmissions are. I'm by no means an RF engineer, but this sort of stuff is what keeps me so interested in learning more and experimenting with a technology that is in practically everything we use now! Thanks for posting!
🐖ham
As a South African radio amateur, I was amazed to see your example of amateur radio frequency spectrum allocation being......for the South African radio amateur! I love HF radio and though my sons aren't interested in it at all (we use internet, Dad) I agree with you that HF radio will still work when all else fails. Nice video, btw - thanks!
Thank you! Hopefully your sons will come around to it someday!
Great video, I appreciate the explanations regarding radio frequencies and different kinds of transmissions. Numbers stations scare the hell out of me, and for some sick reason, I always watch these videos late at night. There’s an eerie otherworldly quality to them, it taps into something primal, makes you feel as though eyes are all around you.
Okay, time to turn on all the lights in my apartment. Yay!
Beautiful content. Please do more on radio. Maybe more SDR and encryption stuff?
Appreciate you man.
This definitely caught my attention. Great vid.
Short wave is hardly a dying medium.
Where I lived as a teenager was out in the woods, and there was a cul de sac dead end even further out in the woods, where my buddy and I found what we called the Alien Station; it broad cast randomly, and sounded like this but with scrambled voices as well; used to pick it up faintly from my old house too... Wonder if it was military or something; given how many bases are around Nova Scotia...
Were you in Nova Scotia when you heard this station?
That's interesting. It probably _is_ alien.
CrazyBear65 Like some Mexicans hiding in them there woods?
where at? i'd love to find it on Google Earth.
@@CrazyBear65 Yes,that makes the most sense. Case closed.
When I was a kid (I’m 61 and yes we had radios) we had a GE radio with AM/FM/SW bands. I remember tuning it to TV he SW band and hearing some of this late at night. I remember thinking I’d found something pretty mysterious and possibly ominous, but I had no clue what. Now I know.
Im 61 as well had a SW radio when i was 10 i could pick up base ball games in ireland
Barry Goldwater, at the helm of his own amateur radio station, K7UGA, starting around 3:41
1432CW Big Collins 75s3c
I thought that was him.
@@JesseWright68 >>> Ditto!
I didn't know Berry was a Jew... Ty
@@manjsher3094 >>> ??
Great video! Hope your stuff gets more traction.
Amazing analysis and video quality! This video deserves WAY more views.
Thank you!
Why did I have to learn about this ! Another wormhole of awesomeness, thank
I used to listen to this station back when it didn't use digital tones in college, in the early 2000s.... was just that "lady" calling numbers, occasionally would also be broadcast with morse. (V02a or M08a) Only way I picked it up in Gulf Coast FL was a very, very long makeshift antenna attached to my shortwave receiver. That, along with the religious broadcasts the radio picked up, always brought me to a slightly creepy feeling when I caught them. Thanks for bringing that back to mind, cheers!
Sounds like Brother Stair has crawled yet another one's skin
Very cool video! Been a licensed Ham since '77, and used to listen to the numbers stations as well. But in my case, since of course I couldn't make sense of what I was hearing, I listened as a sleep aid. I have chronic insomnia, and at the time, the droney characteristics of the numbers station voices used to lull me to sleep!
hey from warsaw indiana!
i lived in chesterland in the 70’s, and remember am 1100 as “3 W E” back then, with Lannigan in the Morning. I still to this day tune in am 1100 in the early mornings before sunrise on my commute to work! I was particularly proud back in the day of the AM/FM transistor radio i got as a xmas gift (from Santa) with the 1 ear piece and a collapsible/folding antenna. i figured it out early, and listened at night on am to stations all over north america, charting station call letters and locations from canada to south america. cklw out of detroit/windsor was my favorite at the time, playing “the great 8” format, mostly Motown. later in the navy, expanded to HF, vatican and bbc radio, and vhf uhf, utilizing hf “cell calls” as we flew trans oceanic and world wide aboard P-3 orion patrol aircraft. i love radio and the role it continues to play in my life :) thanks for the post!
Hello! Your experience in radio sounds fantastic and I'm glad you continue to listen. Funny thing, my friend who just graduated college is now an urban planner in Warsaw. Great small town!
it is a nice area. i work in the orthopedic industry. warsaw is a hub of that. as a kid, i had the radio, a stamp collection, a globe and an encyclopedia. through these i learned about the world, then got the chance to travel and see the world. i hope the same for you
my fav fm station of course WMMS
HM01 - Cut
- Type: Normal.
- Category: Physical.
- PP: 30 (max 48).
- Power: 50.
- Accuracy: 95%.
My dude! This is great stuff.
You own all those radios?
Very nice piece, I’m in North East Ohio also, and have done a bit of amateur at Broadcast radio work. And I have visited some of those government number stations on the East Coast. And many of the other places that say that they listen to us ;-)
Subscribed, thanks for making this video. It was very informative, well put together, not filmed with a potato and best of all your very easy to listen to. Thanks again
Thanks Cameron that means a lot!
Brings back memories of my few years as a KL-47/SGA-3 operator at a remote RRF in the Pacific.
That's just someone trying to load level 2 of Outrun on C64 are 30+ years. It'll finish loading soon.
Commadore 64 . Used to download games from around the world back in the 80's. X modem transfer. I had the first one meg hard drive on the block. Or in the state.
AH!!!
thanks for this video!!!
i used to pick this or something like it up as a kid on my marshall halfstack at certain times and if i faced a certain way with my guitar
pretty sure this is it, tho
the voice was familiar
i would sit in my room and listen to it
dad would come by and sit down and listen as well
regardless, thanks again
That's incredible I've never heard of someone picking up a shortwave numbers station on a guitar! Glad the mystery is solved
Nice explanation of the frequencies and of numbers stations, particularly. We learned one time only pads in the Signal Corps. Nice to see VROW is a fan of yours, too. I like WRMI.
Your introduction reminded me of something my dad told me: he did ham radio during WW2. They weren’t allowed to broadcast (for obvious reasons) so they transmitted through their city’s power grid.
if we did that today, they would lynch us, i mean LYNCH 💀
I used to listen in the 80s before the days of Internet so had no idea what I was hearing the Lincolnshire Porchester the Gongs etc used to scare the hell out of me wondering what it was and of course the Russian woodpecker lol loved the video mate
Thank you! I really wish I could catch the gongs being broadcast live one last time
@@theVHSvlog I know mate it was so dark and had no idea what it was but sounded sinister lol
Yeah, the woodpecker. Soviet over the horizon radar. That thing was a total pain.
@@JCO2002 it was mate and even used to interrupted listing to the old UK police broadcasts on fm when conditions were right it was a pain
@@carlgriffiths8482 For sure. Years ago, I lived in a very rural part of Canada. Got 2 TV channels poorly, at best. No internet, of course. So it was SW much of the time with a pretty good receiver and a very long antenna. BBC, DW, crazy stuff like Radio Albania. Loved it. But that bloody woodpecker would pound through large sections of the HF band at times. Didn't find out what it was until years later.
Used to get Germany back when i was a kid, on an old Hammerlund receiver.
Hi my man... Really appreciate your detailed explanation of radio & specifically short wave... Number's station are incredibly interesting & intriguing, keep up the good work... R 🇦🇺
Thanks Robbie! 👍
Incredible work, fantastic level of depth. +1 subscriber.
In the 70's and 80's I heard lots of number stations as a kid. The most interesting one was in Spanish and was as manual as could be. The transmitter would turn on at the beginning of the group, a man would read the numbers, then the transmitter would turn off at the end of the group, over and over. Apparently he was using a press-to-talk transceiver like a ham radio operator would use. These kinds of amateur number stations were probably used for drug trafficking or some other illegal communications.
These days the only number station I hear is the hybrid HM01. It comes in as strong as Radio Havana.
There is a reason HM01 comes in as well as RHC... it is likely being broadcast from the very same transmitter
@@neilpatrickhairless Was I too subtle in hinting that?
I'm from Ohio to. Pleased to meet you. Subbed. Great information.
Always a HAM fan for decades . There is Plenty much to learn out there all the stuff going on.Thanks for great video ! ! ! 🆒👍😃📚
Thanks for the overview of these stations. I used to work as a computer tech and got called to someone's desk to troubleshoot what appeared to be one of these numbers stations being picked up by her computer somehow. The "talker" was a female and calling out the numbers in English. I could not tell if English was her first language, though. I am embarrassed to say, that although I have an undergrad degree in Physics, I could not figure out exactly how her computer was picking it up. The computer case is essentially a Faraday box and made to eliminate, as much as possible, any EMI. She sat near a reinforced pillar so I though that may have acted as an antenna and collected a strong enough signal to reflect, or bounce, the incoming signal. I rotated her computer case to see if there was any directional changes, but nothing dramatic there. Her only connection from the computer was Cat5 Ethernet. Cat5 is twisted pair to eliminate EMI. So how her computer picked it up, I don't know. I replaced her computer with an identical, newly imaged one and she no longer had the problem. So virus type infection? Any ideas on how this signal could be broadcast through her computer?
I have one problem with my computer only when I transmit in our 70 MHz band. it causes it to freeze. I guess it's picking up R.F. on the cables. 10 MHz causes my outdoor security light to come on.
Bill, G4GHB.
There’s a big radio in Mexico that gives coded messages to drug runners . I’ve heard it on my ham monitor
How do you know it's coming out of Mexico? How do you know they're giving messages to "drug runners"? "ham monitor"(?) What frequencies are you listening on and when?
incubusman421 I had a Stryker cb with Ham Chanel’s . I asked a Mexican trucker what that was and he told me. She would be on all night giving codes . I didn’t have a frequency meter
Sounds really similar to the sound old dial up modems would make when connecting
On the "Frequency Allocation and The Electromagnetic Spectrum" chart towards the beginning of your video the "Increasing Range | Decreasing Bandwith" text on both ends of the spectrum is throwing me off... Shouldn't it read "Decreasing Range | Increasing Bandwith" on the right end? Had to re-watch that part like four times 'cause i couldn't stop thinking about that, lol...
But more importantly, i want to thank you for creating and posting this vid, theVHSvlog. Am nearing 50 and have yet to dabble in HAM radio. Though you had built upon the work of a few others your video teaches *so* much in just a short period. It was well-presented and quite entertaining to boot! Thanks again.
Thanks for explaining that station's purpose and for an interesting video. I plan on posting the link to my friends. I first heard HM01 back in the summer of 2016. 73, Bruce VE6XTC.
I thought your video was nicely done and equally well narrated. It was entertaining. 73's Mike K8MB.
So, at 9:50 I am looking at your analyzer. It appears to be a full double-side band AM modulation with eight subchannels of data, probably frequency shift keyed, but maybe PSK.
And sounds like SSTV or ASCii digitized.
@Cindy Klenk sigint?
@Cindy Klenk Totally. :) Another one who gets it, thank you. Yes indeed it is so very interrresting. Been out of it for a bit now but some things root deep within, like deciphering truth. Coms via ELF etc. Passcodes verified by HF old school. Offshores etc. S-Ops ELInt and tracking under very stressful conditions makes ya stronger.
Glad there are new ones who care. CYA all the time when doing active pen-testing, & you be good. Stay on the light side and be able to use the darkside. Choose battles wisely, and use all the tools available. Secure your home and home gear. Keep work and home separated if possible. Use different e-mails for any work and never use them at home. Good wishes from a 72 Y.O.
@Cindy Klenk Should have guessed there were clues,Like not many know of enigma etc.
I don't need to buy much of anything anymore retired and like you still kickin ass as needed in MANY ways hahaaa. Some are more scary than others and I really meant it about the cloud stuff. Me too music, helped a pal build a 48 Ft. double ended ketch out of ferrocement and chicken wire, put in a hellish lightning rod came straight down mast to under water dispersal rail. Never saw it hit myself but wanted to see a pic of that at least.
Trusteer status is something not so easy to fool. And as long as someone is not harming anything, I generally leave them to figure it out by themselves. But if they are clearly doing wrong, I also feel it is necessary to help keep this away from general mis-informative use. or propagating it. As in, if I stand downwind, I should not be surprised to find some traces of foulness near a waste recycle plant. Or my nose got burned out (check fuses). Same on the net some things are just so not right. Used to do Meteor backbounce on ionized trails on vhf. And used to live waaaaaay up North, we used the Aurora a lot depending on MUF. And yes the Ru pulser OTH Radar on HF used to "P" me off when they were on the HAM bands with their wide bandwidth pulses. Had ducting from all over too. Built a DigitalTermiinal Node translater had it hooked up to a Commodore VIC20 of all things. Went from 300 Baud to 1200. then got a Commodore 64 and the World changed. There was only a few stations on the 2M. links between just a few neo "internet creators" using those protocols that then evolved into the Mil/Te..as Instruments versions to prevent collisions on various networks. A long way from Cisco's, Harris' and SEL's, now there's Wah-hey or sumpin liike that to contend with. I used to run phone patches for the "outposts" to their families. 73
@Cindy Klenk Actually, you are fine. I was just "playing ignorant." I spent 11 years as a Navy cryptologist working for the NSA. CTR1(SW). I was never an "amateur." Be blessed. :)
Love the logo! Big fan of 70s, 80s logos. Good job on the NS topic. Nice Kenwood. Love the Fisher at 01:48.
I really enjoyed this! Great video and thank you for your efforts. Superb! 😀
Thanks Rich!
Booted up an HM!
It contained CUT!
Teach CUT to a POKéMON?
The exact comment I was looking for.
Keep up the excellent work! 👍✨
Those of us who remember the 60's are familiar with AM night time propagation. The most powerful AM stations in the USA are limited to 50,000 watts. In the 60's Wolfman Jack came to us all over the USA from 250,000 watt Mexican border stations. The first of which identified itself as being in del Rio Texas.
As I understood it the transmitters were in Ciudad Acuna, Mexico and the business offices and studio were in Del Rio, Texas.
@@USXPOP They were in various border towns in México, Acuña was XERL if I recall correctly, XERF was in Juárez. My brother and I worked those two when we were kids in Pennsylvania. Those border blasters were originally the brainchild of John Brinkley, a quack con artist from Kansas (I think it was Kansas) who was selling goat testicle pills (not even making that up) and got shut down so he went over the border to blast his ads back into the US.
this is great . i have heard this all my life but i never knew exactly how it worked , or exactly what it was .. if you haven't already i would appreciate a video of all the weird sounds
Absolute Love this!
Thanks for explaining numbers stations. I've heard them on the air, or heard about them but had no details. VE3VCG
Great video! 36 dislikes from FlatEarthers, I guess.
Haha thank you!
Curvature of the Earth? What curvature?? FM transmissions drop off because signal power logarithmically drops off the further it travels. The tall transmission towers provide homes for high flying birds. I observed it myself!
haha
The universe is flat...
LOL.. so true!!
I enjoy stuff like this. Thanks for putting it up I love radios my self you never know what you will hear next I thank its cool
SUPER COOL! You did a great job on this video...I'm already checking out the links to try on my TECSUN.
Radio is better than TV, it always has more channels
And radio offers much better programming as well. It makes you smarter instead of dumber.
Radio has always been superior to TV, always will be. Radio frees the imagination, television imprisons it.
I miss shortwave listening during the Cold War. THAT was awesome! Now, it's mostly religious broadcasting.
Radio Tirana was one of my favorites.... and yours? "good night, dear Listeners" Bill in Bellows Falls, Vermont.
Shortwave has become very active again during the new cold war
I was a radio geek as a kid too and still am, pretty much. In the 1960’s, during the Cold War there mysterious numbers stations all over the shortwave spectrum. I had a shortwave program for several years on KVOH (17.775 MHz) in Simi Valley, CA. I have heard a variety of strange things on the airwaves. Meteor scatter affecting U. S. FM broadcast stations was one. Pretty cool.
Thanks for the great video...well thought out and explained perfect for those who have no idea about radio... The best quality comes from enjoyment of the subject! ;)
Thank you!
I spent 60 years of my life. With the wonder lust that shortwave provides. I've met many strange stations. Even the one that uses a real to real setup. Ie record msg. Then play it" backwards"in" reverse" at ten times the speed. A real nasty" trick "on the unaware operator. And some times dismissed as qrm. A pour man's encryption all analog. Kv4li
Such transmissions are used to minimize the probability of intercept. Ie burst transmission. There were clandestine transmitters in water proof containers scattered throughout europe in the event of a Soviet invasion. The stay behind irregulars would encode messages via keypad and it would be burst transmitted on HF.
@@videosuperhighway7655 you. Are right it was so fast. Mater of a few seconds then slowed down then the op reversed the msg . Then on to linguistics. It was so fast I missed it. Thought it was qrm . Learned to listen more carefully.
Should have spent the 60 years learning to spell
@@mikecastellon3022 got that! right the auto correct on this rig is just crazy /reel gets to be real. Ah this thing is Chinese. Also got mugged out back my home , and lucky to walk. Just learning to use my right hand again. A whopping 85% so far. I'll take it. so much distraction radio is good therapy. So bear with with me recently learned to copy my pre attack.signature. getting better. I look funny as I walk a bout my shack. Head held at a angle
It's a real hoot. I'll win though. by the by. I had 2 attempts on my life. And neighbors get mad now when they see me carrying a six shooter and have a carry permit I don't think I will take another ass beating and live. But I'll take one with me. To hell if nessary. Good life to you , oh this is a geto with trees kv4li. Once again the radio let's me roam cant move fast. But we can listen can't we.
@@mikecastellon3022 ha ha ha ...OMG LMAO!
The way things are going with internet censorship .I can see short wave radio doing a come back. I piped up the diesel pipe supply lines for two emergency generators at RAF Chicksands, Bedfordshire ,UK in 1884.Two big diesel electric motors the size the railway locomotives. This American intelligence base has a huge circular steel antenna structure that can be seen for miles. They listened to radio messages right across the eastern block countries. Short Wave free speech broadcasting ,with new technology will be the next revolution. Cuba authorities does not allow anyone visiting Cuba to bring in short personnel Wave Radios.
I live in New Zealand and I am a ham radio operator and I speak to Europe almost every night. It’s a super fun hobby and so is listening to shortwave broadcast
So cool... That site is crazy... I got stuck there for an hour listening... You rock...
Its located on a ship off the coast of Cuba known as the "rusalka"
Any source? Would love to see the ship
haha, rusalka is a fairy tale character name in Czech (or maybe even other slavic countries)
@@SpenserRoger play black ops 1 and you'll find out
I'm guessing RUSALKA is the Russian electronic monitoring vessel parked in the harbor in Cuba.
They don’t know about the bo1 reference
E-skip on the FM band is literally the best thing ever but it’s becoming less frequent and that makes me sad
I had an early morning radio show on NYU's AM station that ran from 6am to 8am on Tuesdays...precisely when the fire alarm in our ancient Journalism building would undergo its weekly test. I got really good at guessing when it would go off and timing my mic breaks to avoid it lol.
I picked ft8 digital messages from 60+ countries, thousands of miles away using only a 20$ SDR and a random wire antenna. Also I hear HM01 all the time.
With an sdr its easy to scan and find wirrd signals
omg dude i just clicked on your channel an thought this sounds interesting, then bamb youre from ohio. wtam 1100 i listen to them all the time so funny. i live in canton, near the hall of fame. just wanted to say hi.
Hey Sonny! Thanks for stopping by
In the 90s I remember having fun tuning to obscure stations with an old, vintage tube radio, it had a very decent audio and could do SW, all the signals and weird noises along with morse beeps or other computer interferences, everything, and eventually found some weird radio echoing numbers.
Thus said, still trust that more than TOR network for secret communications. Just don't get caught. Memorize the deciphering codes and anyone with even an old CB or a talkie can send you a secret message.
Very cool. Always wanted to investigate those strange radio signals. My dad had a Grundig radio with short wave. It did peak my curiosity.
Heard this one many times. Few years ago I found out that they were using an old unused american freq, and broadcasted on that one because their normal freqs were being jammed.
Read the title as "Hidden machine 01" like the pokemon TMs. Lol
Interesting one though. Nice upload
I only came here to find a comment like this because after reading the title I thought it was the HM Surf from Pokemon
Lol hm01 is cut I think. Respect
Great video - thanks! Nice intro to ham radio to boot 😎 73!
this video is blessed by the algorithm™. it's been popping up in my recommendations for many months now.