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Once Upon a Time in Berlin: The Wall--Conet Project

submitted by rickegee

1 decade 7 years 9 months 1 week ago

Politics

For more than 30 years the Shortwave radio spectrum has been used by intelligence agencies to transmit secret messages. These messages are transmitted by hundreds of Numbers Stations.

Shortwave Numbers Stations are a perfect method of anonymous, one way communication. Spies located anywhere in the world can be communicated to by their masters via small, locally available, and unmodified Shortwave receivers. The encryption system used by Numbers Stations, known as a one time pad is unbreakable. Combine this with the fact that it is almost impossible to track down the message recipients once they are inserted into the enemy country, it becomes clear just how powerful the Numbers Station system is.

These stations use very rigid schedules, and transmit in many different languages, employing male and female voices repeating strings of numbers or phonetic letters day and night, all year round.

The voices are of varying pitches and intonation; there is even a German station (The Swedish Rhapsody) that transmits a female child's voice.

12 Comments

up-for footage, stock or not, great vibe going into it....

now watching the whole thing in its entirety...of the essence of some moment...wow trippy-hippity-dippity

woahhhhhhhhhaaaaa!

plastiquemonkey

ACHT!!

stereolab used this voice somewhere in "transient random noise bursts with announcements".

what an amazing post...

i really love this one. I should have held off on posting it until the collectives were formed.

plastiquemonkey

once it's *saved, you can add it to spanning time.

Saving this video from queue deletion, sending it to the top of the queue for one more try. Originally submitted on Friday 16th February 2007 (save called by gold star member plastiquemonkey)

Interesting. The Edit Your Post page is not allowing me to add it to a collective (Spanning Time or Arts? Arts or Spanning Time? Anyone have a Weimar Republic and Beyond collective yet?).

I think this is because the 'Bot did not technically kill it. Or Lucky quietly and efficiently closed the loop.

btw, thank you for the save. It is one of my favorites. So long as james robert roe doesn't realize his sinister dream of raising the level to 15 votes, then this one should haunt me at 9-10 votes for the next four days.

yeah, he closed the loop a day or so ago.

also.... BWAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAH

Anybody recognize this one?...

http://irdial.hyperreal.org/the%20conet%20project/disc%201/tcp_d1_4_phonetic_alphabet_nato_irdial.mp3

And I believe that Wilco was sued by the Conet Project for using that sample . . .damned litigious Brits.

Wilco probably settled if they didn't properly secure the rights, although I am certain that their reps probably thought this was public domain.

Interesting, rickegee. Thanks for the awesome sub!

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