[Spooks] History - 5 Digit Station in Fort Lauderdale, FL

Eric er1c.net at gmail.com
Fri May 31 14:53:01 EDT 2019


So yesterday I was looking through a few old Monitoring Times issues. I
came across something I don’t know how I missed all these years…

Apparently, there was a 5 digit Numbers Station “slightly West of the
North-Western Fort Lauderdale city limits”. Now, I know about many of the
other sites around here (and have visited some several times), but this one
escaped me. Havana Moon said it was a 5 digit station on 5135khz @ 0500z.
Link to PDF, Column is on page 33. <
https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Monitoring-TImes/1980s/Monitoring-Times-1986-02.pdf
>

Now if this was a true 5 digit station, I would suspect a ham radio station
type set up in somebody’s residential house (Cuban in nature). If it was a
3/2 station, then I would suspect a more elaborate setup (DEA, FBI, etc).
Working on the assumption that it was a 3/2 station, the only suitable
location I could think of was the old WOM receive site where the Central
Broward Park is now located. If you have Google Earth, punch in: 26.144284,
-80.198969 and go back in time to 2/95 and you can see the antenna farm.
Today, only a vertical conical antenna exists (and a few wooden poles from
days gone by). Google Map link: <
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Central+Broward+Park+%26+Broward+County+Stadium/@26.1443986,-80.1988915,242m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x88d906d0a78cad71:0x319db80f642d78b6!8m2!3d26.139978!4d-80.198734
>

Does anybody remember any other info on this location? I know I am beating
a 33 year old dead horse, but since I live here I would love to check it
out…


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