The Secret Numbers Station That Got Scared 

The music playing gives a real a competitor to the East German "gongs station" that disappeared shortly before reunification, and the recordings of those are unintentionally creepy as hell.

This is such a french station. German: 10749 10749 English: 20713 20713 French: LE HEN IS ABOUT TO LAY UNE EGG!!!

Sometime in the late 70s I used to regularly listen to shortwave stations and remember hearing number stations. Once, I tuned into to a station that was broadcasting a man screaming in what sounded like extreme pain. Coincidentally, many years later, a friend of mine (who I didn't know until 1983) told me that he also used to listen to shortwave around the same time and also heard the same screaming. I can only imagine it was a spy who was caught in the act of broadcasting his information, and was tortured and 'used' in this way to send a grim warning to whoever the man spied for. His screams still haunt me to this day.

I remember listening on 6Mhz when I first got interested in SW listening, there was a lot of odd signals around in the 1970s. I miss those times.

Deine deutsche Aussprache ist sehr gut Lewis❤ Most intruiging a new one on me mate thanks Just to sY I really appreciate the amount of research you must have done for the video it's remarkable you should be very proud 👍👍

Another great episode! I'm not surprised the French number station had organizational problems. If I'm not mistaken, the director of operations was a young French intelligence officer named Clouseau, who later became Chief Inspector of the Paris police detectives. Witnesses say he wasn't very bright.

I think that there was some suggestion that the pirate Radio North Sea ship the MEBO 2 was used to broadcast a number station that used Tyrolean Music as a call sign. There was also some suggestion that the owners worked for the Stasi.

It would be great if some of these agents if still alive and safe would break cover. Just as some of the code breakers have done from World WW2. It would be a great asset to the history of communication.

How on earth does someone claim a copyright over stuff that they recorded from a source that wasn't them? ie a recorded radio transmission. If that isn't misuse of the copyright system in RU-vid, I don't know what is....

This unauthorized recording of an illegal radio broadcast to enemy agents from a hostile power is protected by copyright law.

Excellent video (and German pronunciation!) but the idea of someone recording a radio transmission and then claiming copyright in the recording is absurd. There's no rights in pressing "record". If I record something off the BBC can I then prevent anyone else airing the same pirated recording on the grounds I somehow own it? If I photocopy a textbook or download an image do I have "copyright" in the results? Of course not, I'm the one committing an act of piracy. But given that the government that made the content is hardly going to sue, I think you'll be all right.

How the heck can somebody claim copyright on numbers station broadcasts? Specific recordings I do get: if it's their antennae picking the signal off the air, their equipment demodulating the EM, their equipment putting the soundwaves on tape, then copies of that tape would be copyrighted. But other people could've done the same, and then each holds a copyright of the respective soundwaves on their respective tapes. Then surely some of those would've been put into public domain by now.

The RU-vid channel SektorSiebenBlau has the Conet version posted, so a friend tells me. Zahlensender/Number Station "G01" ("Tyrolean Music Station") (F) (1971)

"Our hen is about to lay an egg" (about 4 minutes and a half in). I've done my research on this French "East German" number station too. Some of these messages WERE able to be deciphered (and translated to English for those who don't "speakin' de Deutsch"). The above-mentioned message mentioned in this clip reads as follows: "Our rooster is going to lay an egg".

I'm sure it's already been litigated to death, but it still confuses me how someone can copyright a recording of something broadcast by someone else. Seems like the copyright should be with the mysterious transmitter, not Akin Fernandez.

Someone (another Ham) once told me the numbers etc were a red-herring. That the data was encoded in differences between the upper & lower sidebands. I don't know if it's true - but it kind of makes sense, hiding in plain sight. G7DMQ

Excellent German pronunciation. Well done Lewis 👍

That's pretty neat i've never heard of that number station before

Thanks Lewis, very interesting. If that Stasi facility isn't the most ominous thing I've ever seen...

Awesome video as usual. Number stations are always fascinating

Another excellent video Ringway! I'm a UK VHF/UHF Amateur, and an SWL since I was about 6, when my Uncle fixed up an old Pye valve set for me in the 70s. When CONET started, I got hold of a copy (which answered a lot of questions about old SW oddities!) and I loaned it to a friend of mine who creates Electronic Dance Music. He created an extended play single, I think around 14 minutes long, using and layering these samples. I used to play it a lot in the car - when in car CD players were a thing (remember those days?) and really enjoyed it. Like I said, it was never an album track, only a single. Since I know you to be a fan of the EDM yourself, I wonder if you might fancy a listen. It's good fun to try and see how many you can spot - and he's never committed to giving me the correct number of different numbers/spy stations. I think guessing is better than knowing anyway. Should you fancy a listen, I could maybe email you an MP3 version, if you drop me your address. As ever, excellent video - I love your vids on numbers/spies/oddities - your quality is always A1 and well-researched. Should you ever fancy a chat, I'm in the North myself, but more to the east of the "spine of the UK"! 73s, and keep up the top notch work! Brad.

I would be so glued to this waiting for background noise.

Makes me think of "Farewell" case. Very interesting

Listening to these from so long ago is amazing!

I can tell you that the location was not "Burgin" but Burg, a town near Magdeburg in Saxony-Anhalt. The sentences were total nonsense. Their aim was to distract Western intelligence services and keep them busy trying to make any sense out of them. Very similar nonsense-messages had been embedded in popular music channels operated by the East-German Stasi, for the same reason, and to attract public listeners. It worked, many young people in the West listened to the Stasi radio, firstly because of their good brand new music mix (they didn't care about copyrights, of course), and because the frequently embedded eerie voice messages gave it a clandestine exciting touch.

6:33 I wonder if they paid royalties? 🤔😂

Fantastic. I've so got to sample that from the start for one of my tracks. I'm also going to see if I can find that album they used.

00:30-- the radio nerd in me is just fascinated with what appear to be all kinds of horizontal dipole antennas.

Enjoyed this, Lewis. Gratitude.

Somehow those sentences remind me of the code messages used during WW2. Especially those used in.prelude to D-Day. Loose sentences without meaning to the ear of the enemy...

4:14 You CAN play it here... They cannot copyright it since they aren't the authors lol

Hans, Nezzen, and BompsADaizy, we are going on a Cruise ?

What a lovely Hoch-Deutsch pronunciation you have!

Another superb documentary

Didn't expect such good German accent

How do you own a copyright of a mixed tape recorded off "free-to-air" broadcast?

Sounds like Bavarian language, but then it has to be transmitted from Munich or in the neighborhood.

Another great story told, Lewis!

You pronounced the German very well.

The magazine may have been "Popular Communications".

That was cool, thankz. I've never heard anyone alud to the stations attempting to be purposely uninteresting, which is obvious if think about it. ;)

Ah tyrolean music station, one of my favorite. There was a conspiracy that those involved in the lockerbie bombing where broadcasting this to Stasi agents from Radio Nordsee Internationals platform, before it was revealed to be run by the French

Damn, your German pronunciation is excellent!

Brilliant as usual. I love all this...

the same music was used on the UK game show "the price is right "

The radar station of villa Benedetta, Livorno, Italy is very strange stories

One of your best.

For some reason I want you to read numbers to me in a numbers station way

I was hoping you'd do a video about this station.

Imagine if the soviets would have responded to the broadcast from SDECE.

It's hilarious to me that their method of staying inconspicuous was to blast Franzl Lang.

@RingwayManchester >>> Great video...👍

Wee- my kind of a radio station a yodel station sit at the control-room monitoring their big transmitter and having a few beers and a big-shot German Stein yodel yodel

oh, eine Kuschelstation

Wonder if I can get Franzl Lang’s hit tunes on CD..? 🤔

If no goverment ever acknowledged numbers stations, how do we know who operated them, like in this case?

Found out and then they waved the white flag. They were French indeed.

You speak German very well!

Please could you put some text on screen to indicate what the masts you're showing in the video are called? Edit: future videos I mean.

Gutten tag to you as well

Your german pronunciation 💪🏻

Those type of spoken messages was used by the BBC in the 40s.

Franzl is the man, he yodeled for freedom.

Secret Number

Secret yodelling stations... They have to operate underground for fear of retaliation. But were they bad at running the station, or really good at looking amateur? "Nothing to see here, just somebody with one Tyrolean LP and a level 1 German phrasebook".

In the thumbnail for this video there is some sort of building or an antennae disguised as a building? What was that about? It kind of reminds me of those WWII forts at sea but different.

You’re not part German are you? Dein Sprechen ist fantastich!

Thanks!

2:19 - 6660 kHz. That’s too funny … 👹

Your German 😲

You know it's a fake German number station/ because Northern/Eastern Germans wouldn't play Bavarian folk music.