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Article #620554Re: 1963--nuclear weapon alarm system
From: JimP
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 13:30
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 13:30
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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. >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.
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