[HCRA] Numbers Stations - NPR

[Rick Lindquist, N1RL]

Here's a news brief we ran in Oct 2001 on the subject:

 

Number station FOIA request denied by FCC: The FCC has denied an
application for a review of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests
for records regarding so-called "number stations" often heard on HF
frequencies. Michael Ravnitzky filed two FOIA requests for FCC number
stations records. According to the Memorandum Opinion and Order in the
case, released September 28, "number stations use high-power
transmitters to transmit short-wave radio broadcasts of strings of
numbers, sometimes along with sounds ranging from yodeling or a repeated
flute melody to electronic tones or bursts of information-filled noise,
on strange frequencies with no known schedule." The FCC said it had
provided Ravnitzky with records concerning number stations but had
edited portions of the records using an exemption to the
FOIA--"withholding national security information concerning the national
defense or foreign policy properly classified under an executive order."
The FCC also deleted what it considered irrelevant material from the
pages sent to Ravnitzky as well as five pages of correspondence between
the FCC and foreign government offices. Certain e-mail materials were
withheld as "part of a continuing process of agency decision making,"
the FCC said. Number stations are widely believed to be associated with
clandestine espionage operations. The complete FCC MO&O is available on
the FCC
<http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-01-280A1.doc>
Web site. 

 

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Another very interesting website is SpyNumbers...some interesting
numbers

stations information there.  Go figure as for authenticity, but it kept
me

busy for almost an hour.

 

http://www.spynumbers.com

 

73', Mike KB1FWN

 

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Neat stuff Dan - thanks for the info.

 

I dropped by the NPR site in Dan's message. It doesn't say much but be
sure

to listen to the audio version of the broadcast. It's almost 8 minutes
and

well worth the listen.

 

Numbers stations have always been mysterious. Drop by this site and
learn

some more: http://www.irdial.com/conet.htm. And your spouse thinks YOU
don't

have a life!

 

Have fun spinning that SW dial!

 

'73...

 

Jim

 

 

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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4167689

 

This was the story I heard on the way home last Friday. NPR had an

interesting twist on it as they explored the musical aspect of it.
(Wonder

what they would do if we threw them the muzak of CQ WW RTTY?)

 

Dan S.

KO1D

 

 

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