[Spooks] Shortwave at the movies

[jmm]

The 'Lincolnshire Poacher' is E03

See http://www.cvni.net/radio/ for background information about E03 activity.

It transmits in USB from (European) early evening to late evening on three
parallel frequencies.

Among them (from the top of my head :

5746, 6495, 6900, 6959, 7337, 8464, 9251, 1042(3-6), 11545, 12603, 13375,
14487, 15682, 16084.


On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 06:19:33PM -0000, Chris Brand wrote:
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> The following was posted on the British DX Club email list. Cam anyone
> answer it for us?
> I am sure it was well documented at the time Vanilla Sky was released.
> 
> Many thanks
> 
> Chris
> 
> chris brand
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: xeg19@
> To: <bdxc-news@>
> Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2003 2:08 PM
> Subject: [BDXC-UK] Shortwave at the movies
> 
> 
> > Hi all.  Now, here's a little puzzler for anyone with an interest in
> > "spy" stations.
> >
> > Watching the brilliant Tom Cruise film Vanilla Sky for the first
> > time, on DVD last night, there was a scene where a sequence of
> > apparently random numbers was repeated over and over on the
> > soundtrack accompanying the action.  At one point, this moved on to
> > an instrumental version of the folk tune "The Lincolnshire Poacher",
> > repeated several times as well.
> >
> > Now, I seem to recall that this was once the interval signal of one
> > of the more famous "numbers" stations, but can anybody tell me which
> > one? And if somebody could tell me quite why director Cameron Crowe
> > chose to include these small but noticeable details in the movie, I'd
> > love to know too.  Is he a closet SWLer or DXer perchance.
> >
> > Can anyone think of other examples where radio has featured in the
> > plot of films?  Of course, two that come to mind are "Play Misty for
> > Me", and Robin Williams's "Good Morning Vietnam", but I am sure there
> > must be others.
> >
> > Yours intriguedly
> >
> > MARK SAVAGE
> > Eastbourne
> >
> >
> >
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