[FARC] interesting article

[Joseph M. Durnal]

Interesting content but the article quality wasn't that great.  I've been
following this.

Have you ever heard a "numbers" station?  I have.  Numbers stations send
seemingly random numbers via CW on HF.  They are often 5 number groups, but
I've heard the number groups as large as 8 before.

I have a whole page of 5 number groups that I copied near the top of 40
meters one morning (a strange place to hear code). They are good code
practice, because a lot of the numbers stations I've heard were slower,
machine sent CW.

So why doesn't the government do anything about it?  Well, there isn't much
they can do, in fact, I wouldn't rule out that the US government doesn't
send messages this way.  The numbers are likely an encrypted message using a
one time pad cipher.  Unless you have the answer key, they are just random
numbers.  Yes, cryptography is one of my other hobbies, one that is
completely incompatible with ham radio!

73 de Joseph Durnal NE3R

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Anthony C <n1ig at hotmail.com> wrote:

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