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Article #620555Re: 1963--nuclear weapon alarm system
From: Peter Flass
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 14:00
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 14:00
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JimP <solo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 11 Feb 2018 10:49:36 GMT, Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote: > >> On 2018-02-10, Andreas Kohlbach <a...@spamfence.net> wrote: >> >> [22 lines snipped] >> >>> I love Number Stations. No idea what their purpose is today, just loving >>> them. :-) >>> >>> Could put up my own station, announcing random numbers. Having some three >>> letter agencies wasting their time investigating. *g* >> >> *laugh8 What a marvellous idea!!! >> >> I've a radio amatuer licence - I wonder what the authorities would think >> of a synthesised voice announcing random 5 letter groups? > > In the U.S., which I know you aren't here, its illegal for cryptic > coded messages to be sent by ham radio operators. > > Saw an argument about this on a ham radio forum. Was digital 'plain > speech' ? What about CW ? etc. I just ignored it except for randomly > reading one or two posts. Surprised they're still arguing this. Digital packet radio has been around "forever", based on the AlohaNet. The KA9Q tcp/ip package was developed, as the name suggests for ham radio. > >> Talking of which, when number stations started, how was the voice generated? >> Surely they didn't have someone sit there and read them out? Although >> given the kinds of country that did it, it would surprise me. > > My little understanding of it is that now its a computer voice, but > people did it years ago. > > -- Pete
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