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I love your information Lewis, but could you get your wife/partner to do the voice- overs? Sounding like Gary Nevillle dropping off a 36 hour speed rush is just... well crap actually and detracts from the research you conducted. Most international readers would have no idea of the GN remark anyway, but you get it... Boost your ratings = cash Lewis! 😊
Yes because Gary Neville has hardly been a success has he? He's amassed a fortune on and off the pitch, noted to be worth in excess of 20 million quid a man who continues to make a very nice addition to this sum by using his voice? It's always the people who make no content who say stuff like this.
In 2002, I was deployed in Kosovo as part of the NATO mission. To pass the time, I brought my Ten Tec RX-320 and spent hours scanning between bands. One night, I stumbled upon a female voice with a vaguely British accent reading letters in the standard phonetic alphabet. As the chief of plans operations and security for Area Support Group Falcon, I recorded the transmission on a mini-CD and checked in with the G2 of the MNB-East headquarters, which was led by the British. However, he had no idea what it meant and assured me that a British number station wouldn't have a British-sounding voice reading the code. He even suggested it could be the Mossad. Listening to your recordings, I realized that the transmission sounded almost exactly the same. The voice would interject administrative instructions like "Message begins" or "Message repeats." It later dawned on me that Kosovo was a hub of spying activity at that time, which made this experience one of the most surreal moments I had during my time in the Army. It was strange to realize that there was a secret and clandestine world operating around us while I listened to this peculiar transmission in a Seahut.
Strange clandestine world!? Of course there is! This week the pentagon leak revealed Mossad participation in the attempt to oust their prime minister while the cia attempting a color revolution in Israel! Heads up there’s one going on here!
Awesome story. It is almost surreal. The world of espionage is all around us. Even in civvy street. To wit, back when I was doing my articles I had to collect files from another attorney's office. Him and I shot the shit for a bit but I noticed he had a ton of cccp militaria in his office which struck me as peculiar. Months later I can't remember how I came across it, but this guy had picture posted of him shaking hands with RU officials like ambassadors or attachés etc and I have no doubt over the years that he had some connection to them.
About 20 years ago I was sitting at home in my quiet apartment, had my computer off but speakers were still on. About 4am local time a very faint message starts going through my speakers, was able to make it a little louder by turning up the volume. Something about a guy had just arrived in town and was on his way to drop something off. Then another guy came on and said come on by right now. It was as if something in the frequency of my speakers had intercepted a radio transmission from the mob. Never had anything strange like that happen since and its something I wont forget. This video kinda reminds me of that.
Strong radio frquency nearby will often get into powered computer speakers. I'm guessing it would've been someone right near you in your apartment building. Happens to me frequently when I transmit hf radio signals. I even had a paper shredder with an automatic feature that would be activated by strong rf signals from my radio getting onto the shredder circuit.
It's called audio circuit rectification. A portion of the amplifying transistor acts as a diode detector and the speaker wire as an antenna tuned to the length of the wire. As state below, the signal would have to be quite close, certainly within a few hundred feet at most.
@@Superacerc Ha, what you typed reminded me of the Nokia-era mobile phones, and just how much "DOODOO-DOO DOODOO-DOO DRRRRRRR" noise they could shove out of most electronic devices with a speaker, sometimes even if the speakers themselves were turned to the lowest volume setting..
@AcuraLvR 82 @@joelashdod7712 I used to hear Deutsche Welle in Russian in winter afternoons on my Modecom PC speakers muted. They had a very strong signal on 7145 kHz, and that's what the speakers were picking up. Off shortwave. To be clear, I'm in Poland, relatively close to Polish-Belarusian border, and I believe the transmitter was in Germany (Wertachtal?).
Very informative video of the MOSSAD message stations. One thing to point out which I observed in its final years of transmission on short wave. They were constantly targeted by jamming presumed to be from Iran. The most common type I noticed was the bubble type jammer which was also used to target other stations from outside Iran transmitting in the national Farsi language. I think the constant jamming was too much for the recipients to get a clear signal for decoding messages which might be why the shortwave transmissions eventually ended.
As a former IDF soldier, I have many friends who have worked on collecting information from foreign number stations during SIGINT operations on a Beechcraft type aircraft. They don’t know anything about E05 but they were military intelligence and not Mossad.
I was at Ft. Bragg in the mid 90s. I have a small table top shortwave radio and I heard a similar voice to E10. The difference was the group contained a numeral and was an EXTREMELY strong signal. IIRC, "Kilo Papa Alpha Two" was often and strong.
Fascinating subject, I have a small SW Radio, haven’t listened in a minute, but this so cool to me. The Cold War spy operations were just awesome to hear how it was operated, and what they had to do to receive messages in a phone booth, a dead rat, etc. They had to drive in a maze in a city to make sure that they weren’t followed. Just awesome!
Possibly one of the most famous stations, of course, after Wilco used the "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" transmission in the song "Poor Places," and as the inspiration for the title of the album.
Fun fact: E10 sounds like "Eitan" which is a common Hebrew name meaning "Strong", "Powerful", "Substantial", "Meaningful". I suspect E10A is called that way because in Hebrew, adding the -a suffix to names sometimes makes them feminine, "Eitana" is not a name but "Etna" is.
I would venture that false-starting the message some minutes before the planned time may have been a way to wake-up any operative that might have dozed off while waiting for his assignment.
Excellent video, Lewis, that is some fascinating stuff! I didn't even know Mossad was in the numbers game, but I guess why wouldn't they be? You're making me want to start scanning the bands again, cheers!
I enjoy your content on a regular basis, so thanks very much! could you perhaps do a video explanation of the differences and reasons for using suppressed carriers vs the opposite and modulation methods and so on? I know there's always Wikipedia, but that's way too technical in many ways. anyway, thanks 😊
I think most Mossad messages could actually be rashei teivot (1st letter of each word in a phrase) using NATO alphabet. Hebrew uses it a lot. It can get quite confusing as it is in Hebrew, and can get even worse if you take it to Latin script.
Wow, E10 was the 1st numbers station I've ever found on shortwave! You could only imagine how spooky it was to stumble upon that lady reading strange "codewords" on & on 😆 Certainly their H3E/CUSB modulation helped 😉 I do remember a few of their identifiers but very few frequencies sadly. I know ULX was on 4880 kHz, colliding with SW Radio Africa which beamed to Zimbabwe in late 2000s, and there even was a period it was jammed with a cacophonous 8-note music sample. Unfortunately my searches on that jammer never resulted in any recordings of that jammer 😢 although there were articles about VOA broadcasts to Zimbabwe also suffering from jamming. Another E10 frequency I remember was 7540 kHz. This one collided with one of Firedrake frequencies deployed against Radio Free Asia Mandarin Chinese service. There was a time I used to listen to Firedrake a lot, just didn't know other shortwave radio enthusiasts were calling it Firedrake... By the way, the 2 after the ID normally indicated NO message was to follow - as opposed to what you said in the video. The ID would've been repeated twice every couple of seconds from 5 minutes to TOH/BOH to maybe a minute to, and if there was no 2 in that ID, this callup would resume at TOH/BOH, this time repeating the ID continuously, until a message began. At least that's how I remember these things 😉 I'm surely missing E10. It made the SW bands so much spookier, more interesting, and, well... more addictive 😅
Hey I've asked before but Ill do it one more time. Can you make a video outlining the basics of getting into radio like tips and equipment for someone on a budget?
This brought back memories of listening to my Globe Patrol shortwave set or my Realistic DX400 in the 70s and 80s. I live near DC, and I’m very sure I heard this station way back in the day.
I think that a "number station" has a peculiar problem: it is not fully "lawful" and so it cannot obtain an "exclusive" frequence and so it is necessary to shift frequencies very often and, by doing so, it cannot declare its own name in a jingle ( f. e, "Radio one o one, Radio Montecarlo, RAI radio televisione italiana"). So the broadcasters must find a way to be rapidly identified by a "due" listener, but at the same time without revealing in open form their identity
Text Text. That is what I copied. Also, many of the lower frequency schedules were intended for local countries. Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Egypt, and the Saini desert. Spent thousands of hours when living in The Buffer Zones recording and analyzing the signals. Troop movements and ships traveling up the Suez were of great interest to Israel and others.
Used to hear these all the time in the early 90's when I was in England. I'd be tuning around and often hear the lady with "Ooniform, leema, Xray" or "Yankee, hotel fokestrot."
Maybe all females sound similar broadcasting on numbers stations, but am I alone in thinking this sounds very like the ‘Lost Cosmonaut’ recording made by the Battista brothers in 1961? I know it’s rumoured to be a forgery, and listening to these I am relieved to think that it is so. Any information people have on this subject is greatly appreciated. 🙏
GIven the possibility , already feasible in the '80-ies, of recognizing human voices and connecting them to precise identities (with the risk of abductions and harsh interrogations...) , these radios have been using electronically synthetized voices, more often female because they can be better heard
Isnt it the Mossad antenna located in Sarona Complex? Im just throwing the guess since i go past it almost everyday. If not i would still like you to talk about it once
You mean the Ministry of Defense complex. Probably not. Back in the day these transmissions were likely relayed from the headquarters to high-power shortwave facilities elsewhere in the country. Those are too large to be built in the middle of a city.
E10 is probably best known outside of SWL circles for being sampled on the Wilco album “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot” which obviously gets its name from one of the station identifiers.
Wasn't it sharing frequencies with the maritime station 4XZ Haifa Radio ? Just like the French number station using the frequencies of FAV22 morse training station.
Regarding the other topic on accent, what I find funny is your pronunciation of sxedule, instead of my usual hearing of skedule. Btw, sxedule would be a more intuitive pronunciation for a brazilian, because for us, ch sounds exactly as x does.
Yeah that's actually something that's slightly contentious here in the UK! Most people say 'shed-ule' and others say 'sked-ule'. I think the sked- variant is actually an Americanism, but it has crept into some British English speakers' vocabulary. As far as I know, the 'shed' variant is the 'official' British English way to say it.
@@simonmason8582 I've also noticed things like that, and some younger people at my workplace even say 'zee' instead of 'zed' now. A personal pet hate of mine is British people saying 'season' instead of 'series' when referring to a TV series.
@@goose300183 it looks like I kicked a hornet's nest. Also, thanks for reminding me of the shed, something that all radio aficcionados should know, hahaha
Someone already asked this in a post. If they are not using these "number stations" now how are they communicating? Also, in the old days, I went to Washington, D.C. and noticed that many embassies had antennaes and microwave antennaes up on their roofs. Now, there is nothing up on those roofs that I can see from Google. Are they communicating by a hidden method or by satellite uplink? Someone please answer. I am very curious. Thank you.
I imagine most of what used to be done by numbers stations is done on the Internet these days. Probably not even using secret squirrel stuff like Tor - there are a million ways field agents could receive one-way communications by knowing which line to read on some completely innocuous website somewhere that's maintained by Mossad or whatever relevant agency they work for.
There are now so many ways of communicating these messages that SW seems extremely archaic and expensive. Interesting that 2006 coincided with the increasing popularity of Skype and other voice services where it would be trivial to leave recordings of encoded messages to be accessed via telephony or computer-based communication services
WhatsApp, Signal, TOR, custom VPN and a live OS. Take your pick of any two and you have what the NSA call (according to the Snowden leaks) a "near total loss of ability" to be monitored. Even if you do want to go the old radio route, SDR means you can listen in from your smartphone, no need for any big fancy antenna or radio equipment that makes you stick out.
@@TheCptES So then, let us say that the American Embassy in Moscow wants to communicate with the State Department in Washington, D.C. They are essentially communicating by encrypted email servers. I can't imagine they use TOR or WhatsApp! I think that is unbelievable. In the old days you would see these spy movies and the embassy was sending messages by Telex terminals. Can anyone direct me to a video which shows how they communicate. Thanks!
I think if I was running a spy outfit: 1) I would have some new "number stations" transmitting random nonsense to keep the other guys busily listening in. 2) I would want to hide messages in what seemed to be uninteresting content like radio plays and classical music. 3) I would hire some fake psychics (are there any other kind) and prime them to mention the other guys secret stuff now and then just to weird out the other side a bit.
There is almost nothing that is more secure than a one time pad. It's why numbers stations transmit in the red instead of encrypted. Even computer encryption is more easily cracked than a set of well made one time pads.
Don't even need 10kW for that. In theory, one could do that. People with amateur equipment have intercepted and interfered with russian transmitters operating in or near the amateur bands...
@@weedfreer if I'm referring to the actual place Quebec I would pronounce it kwee bek or kwuh bek but the NATO (or ICAO or ITU) phonetic for Q is normally kee bek or keh beck
Pgp, deepweb, actually meeting irl,or my favorite hiding a little paper inside their penis and having the other person suck it out and with a series of snowballing until it reaches the right person
If we knew that, they'd be pretty bad at the whole spycraft thing. Realistically, with the rise of smartphones, secure VPN's and Tor you could handle any and all transmissions through the internet. What's more out of place in a house these days, a large FM radio and antenna or a tablet computer? HM01, the Cuban spy station uses digital data transmissions to send out the message (encrypted via OTP) in a plain text document anyone with DIGTRX can download.
Unlikely, these messages use one time pads and should never be reused which then gives unbreakable security as long as the receiving agent is not physically compromised.
yes, the mohel rabbis suck blood from circumsied d🍌ck, known as mezizsh b'peh. there is a video on the net where a rabbi explains the importance thereof, i've seen that video yeaes ago and havent forgotten my breakfast comming back up.
no there is a very very big error here : austria always cooperated with the CIA and the Mossad and the french number station of the HnA in austria was very probable a numbber station sent from austria exklusivve for the mossad. the mossad did have numberstation sent from sender fleckendorf near ansfelden upper austria... these number stations miss in your video" !!! but veryy good video what is presented in the video.. bti the austria mossad coopperatiion on number stations misses !
