Numbers station
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A numbers station is a type of shortwave radio station characterized by unusual broadcasts, reading out lists of numbers or incomprehensible coded messages.
Description
The voices are often created by speech synthesis and are transmitted in a wide variety of languages. The voices are usually female, although sometimes men's or children's voices are used.
Some voices are synthesized and created by machines; however, some stations used to have live readers.
Many numbers stations went off the air due to the end of the Cold War in 1989, but many still operate and some have even continued operations but changed schedules and operators.
See also
- Cuban Five
- Letter beacon
- Lincolnshire Poacher (numbers station)
- Ana Montes
- Secret broadcast
- The Numbers Station (movie)
- UVB-76
- Warrenton Training Center
- Yosemite Sam (shortwave)
