I first heard about them give years ago and have always been fascinated by them.
I've done a lot of research into them and have always been frustrated by it ending with "dunno, spy shit."
Anyways what's your thoughts?
Edit: for those interested you can listen for yourself.
There's at least several that are still operational.
The infamous buzzer is still going. There's quite a few being run out of Asia. And I caught a wild Slavic or German one a few months back.
I was listening to the buzzer one day after reading about it a couple of years ago. By chance, I heard some messages being broadcast about a minute after I started listening. I kept that shit on for like an entire weekend in the hope of hearing something else before I got sick of hearing it.
That's pretty cool. I've never heard anything on that frequency aside from that obnoxious and incessant buzzing.
"dunno, spy shit" seems to sum it up well.
There is just no information to work with. We can speculate, but without evidence it is nothing more than guessing. And we'll probably never know if we were right.
It is an interesting topic, but also a frustrating one because we can not know the answer, and never will.
My thoughts exactly. There's been a few mentions and questions come up over the years. Like the British guy who's quoted as saying "they're not for public consumption."
But very little is concrete and most information is purely speculation.
Are there even any still operational number stations? I mean actually sending, not ready to be started in case of a blackout.
dunno, spy shit.