The footage is nothing to do with the subject... Why show the Icom 705??? To keep the sad fanbois who buy one happy...? STOP GIVING OUR SECRETS TO RUSSIA, CHINA USA & NORTH KOREA....NO !!!
As I noted in a comment about the Lincolnshire Poacher, the song Cherry Ripe is associated with John Buchan’s World War 1-era spy novel, Mr. Standfast. It’s sung by the heroine Mary Lamington, who is involved with the British intelligence service and eventually marries the hero Richard Hannay (also hero of the better-known novel The Thirty-Nine Steps, set before the war). Use of the song is arguably a way to say, “Yes, obviously we are connected with espionage.”
The station transmitted Sunday to Friday...nice to see they gave the spies the Saturday off 🙂 Excellent stuff by the way. I've been a bit of a numbers station fanboi since the late 70's when I was ~11-12 years old.
The voice inflection thing has a science with it. The football scores on saturday was front and center. As a kid their was a program on tv on a way to predict the next score from the first inflection. It went somthing like, 'Accrington Stanley ONE` This was rising as the second score was less 'Melchester Rovers NIL' and so this would descend.
I’ve just discovered this channel and it’s bloody brilliant. Can’t wait to deep dive into the archive! Thanks for the great content. Really well delivered and edited too!
I want to thank you Growing up in the cold war and having a SW radio as a kid you have answered so many questions I had from the number station's that used to freak me out to the Russian Woodpecker Thank you love your videos
There was an Australian numbers station operating from the city of Melbourne in the 1980s. I remember flicking across 27 mhz cb channels on an old Pace 1000m in my car and hearing a female voice broadcasting groups of 5 numbers. I must have been close to the transmitter where I was listening, as the reason I could hear it on the 27 mhz cb radio would have been IF breakthrough due to the strong signal strength. I wish I had taken more notice of it and followed it up, but I remember being very puzzled at what I was hearing.
It would be an odd choice to transmit out of Melbourne rather than up north, unless they were trying to reach agents operating in Tasmania. The 1980s were interesting times in Tassie, though, so who knows?
As an Aussie, I love that you are covering us. You should look into our development of over the horizon radar. We were, apparently, the first western nation to develop it. Our national science agency developed it, and used their findings to develop wifi and radio telescopes. No one here would have an issue with the UK broadcasting from here, the UK is such an exceptionally close ally.
Another good video. Spy radio is always interesting. Inspired by your great flight videos, I bought a DJI Mini 3 Pro this week. I already know the first antenna I want to circumnavigate. Can't wait!
I had no idea that Lincolnshire Poacher had a "sister" station. Thank you for the video and info. I always look forward to seeing what you do with each of your videos. 73 from Portland, Oregon my friend
interesting you mention simultaneous transmission on 2 frequencies & jamming. A trick I'd heard from WW2 was have 2 receivers & feed each frequencies output to each side of a pair of headphones... the wanted signal being correlated between the 2 is "understood" by your brain to be in the middle of your head, but the jammers didn't tend to be correlated so your brain perceived them to be at the sides so your brain's "spatial filtering" helped dig the wanted signal out of the jamming.
Have you considered putting a little bit of text for each bit of footage with some info, such as the location, type of transmitter/aerial etc? It'd probably head off some less attentive people that haven't noticed the starting disclaimer and spark some interest into other vids you do on the topic. Anyway, love the channel. Cheers.
Would it be possible to add an annotation on screen with the name of each mast or tower that you're showing during the video? It'd be nice to know where each one is.
They’re not too bad, although best avoided by professional drivers (the combination of ingredients results in the bars containing just enough alcohol to register a breathalyser reading, which can be a problem if your licence has a .00 limit).
In 2009 Australia completed switching over to the newly built defence HF communications system. Built by contractor Boeing under project JP 2043 the HF modernisation project or MHFCS replaced existing separate HF systems for the different military branches into one centrally controlled system for all defence users. Strange coincidence that the changeover to MHFCS also saw the end of cherry ripe.
Haarp is actually just a really powerful radio station/transmitter to study the ionosphere. Look up ghosts in the air glow (they have a website for it), also there's multiple videos on TH-cam. "Ghosts in the Air Glow is an ionospheric transmission art project using the HAARP Ionospheric Research Instrument to play with the liminal boundaries of earth's atmosphere and outer space" With that being said I'm not sure he would want the massive wave of morons in the comments saying that HAARP is a weapon or other BS conspiracy theories. Tech mind's already did a video on HAARP and the comments are very infuriating
I had no idea there was an Australian equivalent, I’m an aussie myself. It is haunting to hear that song and those tones in that familiar syth. Wonder if anyone knows what Synth was used
Cuban Lady for sure as I've heard it even in Slovakia. Anyway in the night you should catch some because they run high power transmitters in SSB. Oh and by the way EAMs (4724 kHz and other frequencies) should be available as they're global.
Interesting that if depicted correctly, these transmissions are in the Amateur Radio Bands. 14.0 MHz to 14.350 MHz is allocated to the amateur radio service world-wide.
He mentions in nearly every video and description the video is simply random radio related B-roll he shoots himself. Zero relation to the stations being discussed.
I'm not a radio ham but I've watched a few of your uploads on these number stations. What equipment would the agent who received these transmissions have used? My only reference to the subject is having read a few spy novels, but I muck about with electronics so would assume an agent would need something more sophisticated than a hacked SW radio in order to transmit a response? They'd also need something more than a coat hanger for an arial right?
They didn't send a response via radio. It was one way communication with any responses sent via dead drops and likely ending up in a diplomatic pouch. One former spy who later wrote a book on being a double agent after being caught (I can't recall his name but I'm sure someone will) said that responses took months to get back.
Even if the mode of transmission required a program to decode [Ana Belen Montes or Heidrun Anschlag for example] a laptop and radio with shortwave would never look out of place in a home today.
Do you know anything about the supposed “Lincolnshire Poacher” telephone number? It appeared in a Kernel magazine article a while back and I called it from Coventry and it worked fine. Don’t know if it’s a hoax or not
I imagine the only reason a number station would move is because its location was found out. It would stop because it is no longer secure or viable or because the technology was replaced.
I'm surprised they still bother operating numbers stations on shortwave radio while the internet is a thing. Steganography is so easy to do. There's this subreddit, r/kitty. People post cat pictures, and the only title or comment anyone posts is "kitty." Go ahead and tell me someone ain't talking to someone via Outguess or something in those pictures.
This comes up in the comments of every numbers station video. Yes, the internet is a thing, but so is national internet censorship. People in North Korea or Iran can't get onto any Western websites but they can listen to shortwave radio from a smuggled set - or even a perfectly legal one, if Shortwave radios are legal and common in that country. Even if an agent can normally get online, a shortwave numbers station may be a useful backup means of communication. It doesn't go down when a construction worker rips up a fibre optic cable ...
defence.gov.au/id/_Master/docs/NCRP/NT/0106HumptyDooTransmittingStationNT.pdf "The Royal Australian Navy opened the transmitting station in 1982 to replace a facility at Coonawarra East that was destroyed by Cyclone Tracy in 1974. The station supports the Darwin naval base HMAS Coonawarra"
The footage is nothing to do with the subject... Why show the Icom 705??? To keep the sad fanbois who buy one happy...? STOP GIVING OUR SECRETS TO RUSSIA, CHINA USA & NORTH KOREA....NO !!!
Deep breath, kiddo.
Icom? Where? Timestamp
@IdiotInChief He's a well known channel troll
@@TymexComputing 2:43 is where I see an Icom IC-705
What secrets are being given out?
It's well known why the transmitter only lasted 2 months
MI6 received their first Australian electricity bill.
🤣🤣😂😂
So sad it's true...and hilarious!🤣
Electricity would be less expensive in Austraila if they burned tires and garbage to make electricity... 😎👍
As I noted in a comment about the Lincolnshire Poacher, the song Cherry Ripe is associated with John Buchan’s World War 1-era spy novel, Mr. Standfast. It’s sung by the heroine Mary Lamington, who is involved with the British intelligence service and eventually marries the hero Richard Hannay (also hero of the better-known novel The Thirty-Nine Steps, set before the war). Use of the song is arguably a way to say, “Yes, obviously we are connected with espionage.”
‘Mr Standfast’ was also a work name used by George Smiley.
Interesting... This is a great tidbit to pull out next time we watch "Victor/Victoria."
British arrogance knows no bounds
@@bielanski2493 I was going to say- I know it from Julie Andrew’s singing it in the movie. You learn something new every day
@@justjennie7394 Don't forget the c-... the co-... the cockroach!!
The station transmitted Sunday to Friday...nice to see they gave the spies the Saturday off 🙂
Excellent stuff by the way. I've been a bit of a numbers station fanboi since the late 70's when I was ~11-12 years old.
I love Cherry Ripe. It's pieces of desiccated coconut and glazed cherries all covered in dark chocolate.
The voice inflection thing has a science with it. The football scores on saturday was front and center. As a kid their was a program on tv on a way to predict the next score from the first inflection. It went somthing like, 'Accrington Stanley ONE` This was rising as the second score was less 'Melchester Rovers NIL' and so this would descend.
Motherwell nil. Partick Thistle nil.
@@eadweard. That is a sure flatliner...............
It's also the natural way most people read a 2-line picture macro meme. Top line with a rising inflection, delivery line with a descending inflection.
I’ve just discovered this channel and it’s bloody brilliant. Can’t wait to deep dive into the archive! Thanks for the great content. Really well delivered and edited too!
Thanks Stephan! Enjoy! There’s plenty to be getting on with haha
I want to thank you Growing up in the cold war and having a SW radio as a kid you have answered so many questions I had from the number station's that used to freak me out to the Russian Woodpecker Thank you love your videos
There was an Australian numbers station operating from the city of Melbourne in the 1980s. I remember flicking across 27 mhz cb channels on an old Pace 1000m in my car and hearing a female voice broadcasting groups of 5 numbers. I must have been close to the transmitter where I was listening, as the reason I could hear it on the 27 mhz cb radio would have been IF breakthrough due to the strong signal strength. I wish I had taken more notice of it and followed it up, but I remember being very puzzled at what I was hearing.
Probably a Bingo caller using a cheap wireless mic down at the RSL.
@@AdamSWL I'd go along with that theory, but I don't recall any mention of little ducks or fat ladies on the transmissions :0)
It would be an odd choice to transmit out of Melbourne rather than up north, unless they were trying to reach agents operating in Tasmania. The 1980s were interesting times in Tassie, though, so who knows?
As an Aussie, I love that you are covering us. You should look into our development of over the horizon radar. We were, apparently, the first western nation to develop it. Our national science agency developed it, and used their findings to develop wifi and radio telescopes. No one here would have an issue with the UK broadcasting from here, the UK is such an exceptionally close ally.
Yeah, that radar is a mickey mouse bit of gear, let me tell you.
DSTO engineers in the 1973. Stolen by the yanks.
The USA is Australia's biggest enemy.
I can say those cherry ripe bars are pretty good
Love your channel
I hope by "pretty good" you mean truly awful. Theres a reason they were discontinued.
@@kaymish6178 they're still available. I don't like 'em myself though. Coconut and cherries are a waste of chocolate in my opinion.
Another good video. Spy radio is always interesting. Inspired by your great flight videos, I bought a DJI Mini 3 Pro this week. I already know the first antenna I want to circumnavigate. Can't wait!
Appreciating these number stations vids from you dude, keep ‘em coming! 🙏😌
I had no idea that Lincolnshire Poacher had a "sister" station. Thank you for the video and info. I always look forward to seeing what you do with each of your videos. 73 from Portland, Oregon my friend
Hmmm. That Australian site looks like it might be be built inside some sort of circular array...😀
Thunder Dome?
@@spacewolfjr Two men enter....one man leaves!
@@AdamSWL Bust a deal, spin the wheel!
@@RCAvhstape GULAG!!! GULAG!!!
interesting you mention simultaneous transmission on 2 frequencies & jamming. A trick I'd heard from WW2 was have 2 receivers & feed each frequencies output to each side of a pair of headphones... the wanted signal being correlated between the 2 is "understood" by your brain to be in the middle of your head, but the jammers didn't tend to be correlated so your brain perceived them to be at the sides so your brain's "spatial filtering" helped dig the wanted signal out of the jamming.
Have you considered putting a little bit of text for each bit of footage with some info, such as the location, type of transmitter/aerial etc? It'd probably head off some less attentive people that haven't noticed the starting disclaimer and spark some interest into other vids you do on the topic. Anyway, love the channel. Cheers.
I asked last time too. Hopefully he sees this comment and considers it.
Mission was either A: complete or B: Compromised . Either way , this channel is awesome . And I love to learn of this stuff. Really cool
Would it be possible to add an annotation on screen with the name of each mast or tower that you're showing during the video? It'd be nice to know where each one is.
These are fascinating. I grew up as the Cold War fizzled out, and I love digging into the history of what went on. If we only knew the half of it...
Nice one lewis have a good weekend
i remember them early youtube day's the lincolnshire poacher was all over youtube.
Those chocolate bars sound really nice.
As far as mass produced choccy goes, yeah they’re my fave
They’re not too bad, although best avoided by professional drivers (the combination of ingredients results in the bars containing just enough alcohol to register a breathalyser reading, which can be a problem if your licence has a .00 limit).
@@AlexOnTheBus 😮
Last broadcast on my birthday. Nice. Wicked vid as always dude very informative 👍
so fascinating! I live near Oldbury so it was odd seeing it referenced in such an obscure and enigmatic way! haha :)
very good video as always !
In 2009 Australia completed switching over to the newly built defence HF communications system. Built by contractor Boeing under project JP 2043 the HF modernisation project or MHFCS replaced existing separate HF systems for the different military branches into one centrally controlled system for all defence users.
Strange coincidence that the changeover to MHFCS also saw the end of cherry ripe.
Also Linchonshire poacher was also hiding in the finger of fudge advert, No coincince or was it also hiding messages in the advert.
Oh man, yes!
I remember hearing these number stations on short wave in the 80's while messing about with my radio.
More cool videos Lewis many thanks👍
Holy engagement, Batman!
Bob Marley has a lot to answer for
We're 👍jammin
Another fascinating video 👍
@6:00 lol sounds like a drunk trying to play happy birthday to you :P
Hey can you do a video about haarp? I know its not a radio station but i really want it
Haarp is actually just a really powerful radio station/transmitter to study the ionosphere.
Look up ghosts in the air glow (they have a website for it), also there's multiple videos on TH-cam.
"Ghosts in the Air Glow is an ionospheric transmission art project using the HAARP Ionospheric Research Instrument to play with the liminal boundaries of earth's atmosphere and outer space"
With that being said
I'm not sure he would want the massive wave of morons in the comments saying that HAARP is a weapon or other BS conspiracy theories.
Tech mind's already did a video on HAARP and the comments are very infuriating
I had no idea there was an Australian equivalent, I’m an aussie myself.
It is haunting to hear that song and those tones in that familiar syth. Wonder if anyone knows what Synth was used
Are there any numbers stations to hear in the central US? I'd say Europeans are lucky in this respect.
Cuban Lady for sure as I've heard it even in Slovakia. Anyway in the night you should catch some because they run high power transmitters in SSB. Oh and by the way EAMs (4724 kHz and other frequencies) should be available as they're global.
That numbers station is at middle point, Northern Territory
Thanks for sharing
Cherry ripe here in Aus is the same as a Ruffle bar in the uk... Regards from Down under
Aussie Aussie Aussie!
Oi Oi Oi 🤣
I love how TH-cam offered to translate "Aussie Aussie Aussie, Oi Oi Oi" to English :)
@@3rdalbum haha
Random Lewis, but any idea where that cool black and white picture, from Conet Project, of antenna etc was taken ?
Wow so that site in Australia is indeed the location of cherry ripe??? I was wondering if it actually was. How were you able to confirm this?
Interesting that if depicted correctly, these transmissions are in the Amateur Radio Bands. 14.0 MHz to 14.350 MHz is allocated to the amateur radio service world-wide.
He mentions in nearly every video and description the video is simply random radio related B-roll he shoots himself. Zero relation to the stations being discussed.
All this HF stuff is making me contemplate taking the next level test for my Amateur License. I always enjoy your videos. Keep it up! KC3AIL
The way this guy talks is perfect for watching videos
Some peoples voices, although the content is good just are too jarring 😂
Maybe Parliament stopped funding both stations...
I'm not a radio ham but I've watched a few of your uploads on these number stations. What equipment would the agent who received these transmissions have used? My only reference to the subject is having read a few spy novels, but I muck about with electronics so would assume an agent would need something more sophisticated than a hacked SW radio in order to transmit a response? They'd also need something more than a coat hanger for an arial right?
Usually just a regular shortwave set, nothing that would cause suspicion if captured
They didn't send a response via radio. It was one way communication with any responses sent via dead drops and likely ending up in a diplomatic pouch. One former spy who later wrote a book on being a double agent after being caught (I can't recall his name but I'm sure someone will) said that responses took months to get back.
Even if the mode of transmission required a program to decode [Ana Belen Montes or Heidrun Anschlag for example] a laptop and radio with shortwave would never look out of place in a home today.
Do you know anything about the supposed “Lincolnshire Poacher” telephone number? It appeared in a Kernel magazine article a while back and I called it from Coventry and it worked fine. Don’t know if it’s a hoax or not
From reading online looks to be a hoax. On Reddit people explain why it links to a guy who lived in Aldershot. Who was big into this sort of thing.
God damn I am in australia and if a hear this song I feel like it’s the end of the world
Named after the famous cadbury chocolate bar
2009 and China - anything to do with Hong Kong ?
Can you do a video on the wow signal?
Woomera?
I'm hungry.
Wow /)
I imagine the only reason a number station would move is because its location was found out. It would stop because it is no longer secure or viable or because the technology was replaced.
I'm surprised they still bother operating numbers stations on shortwave radio while the internet is a thing. Steganography is so easy to do. There's this subreddit, r/kitty. People post cat pictures, and the only title or comment anyone posts is "kitty." Go ahead and tell me someone ain't talking to someone via Outguess or something in those pictures.
This comes up in the comments of every numbers station video. Yes, the internet is a thing, but so is national internet censorship. People in North Korea or Iran can't get onto any Western websites but they can listen to shortwave radio from a smuggled set - or even a perfectly legal one, if Shortwave radios are legal and common in that country.
Even if an agent can normally get online, a shortwave numbers station may be a useful backup means of communication. It doesn't go down when a construction worker rips up a fibre optic cable ...
Ahh another "but the internet" comment. The internet is unreliable and easily blocked.
defence.gov.au/id/_Master/docs/NCRP/NT/0106HumptyDooTransmittingStationNT.pdf "The Royal Australian Navy opened the transmitting station in
1982 to replace a facility at Coonawarra East that was destroyed by Cyclone Tracy in 1974. The station supports the Darwin naval base HMAS Coonawarra"