[Scan-DC] number stations?

[Chris Smolinski]

>there was an interesting story on NPR's All things Considered this 
>afternoon 12 Nov, re: number stations--folks just transmitting 
>series of numbers, etc with no ID and at seemingly random times
>
>I have heard of this before, I think it has even been mentioned on the list. 
>
>anyone hear these things here in DC?  
>

Yes, quite easy to hear. Visit www.spynumbers.com

Also, I thought I'd mention to the list that there is an irc chat 
channel devoted to radio monitoring, here's the blurb I posted to 
another list about it:

An update for those of you who don't have an irc client, you can 
access the #wunclub channel through a web based chat, as well as a 
java based chat. Visit http://www.zirc.org/chat/ and pick your 
nickname, and type in #wunclub for the channel name.

As many of you know, several of us folks log on to  IRC to exchange 
real time loggings and listening tips, as well as idle chat while 
conditions are poor ;-)

There is the #monitor channel, hosted on the ircnet network which, as 
some of you who have tried to connect to #monitor have discovered, is 
not a very stable network, and also it was very difficult to get 
access to it if you are not in Europe. There had also been some 
problems with certain people mis-using the channel.

There now is a solution. #wunclub has been created on the zirc 
network. The zirc network is very stable, and has many servers. I 
have never had a problem accessing it here in the US, and there is 
good access from Europe and the rest of the world as well. Also, 
#wunclub has a link to #monitor on ircnet, so messages are passed 
between the two channels.

If you log onto the channel, and there doesn't seem to be any 
activity, just introduce yourself. There's almost always a few people 
lurking. Any radio related discussions are welcome, from longwave 
thru medium wave, shortwave, and into VHF/UHF and satellites. Utility 
stations, pirates, SWBC stations, etc. If it's radio related, it's 
welcome on #wunclub.

You can get a full list of zirc irc servers here: 
http://www.zirc.org/servers/?n=n

You can use the irc.zirc.org server, it redirects your irc client to 
a working server.

You'll need an irc client of course to get onto irc. Do some web 
searching if you don't have one, there's lots of them out there for 
Windows, Mac, Linux, etc.


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Chris Smolinski
Black Cat Systems
http://www.blackcatsystems.com