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Saturday 3 July 2010

Numbers Station - 5898 kHz

On July 3 when I was tuning around the bottom end of the 49 metre broadcast band, I happened across a station on 5898 kHz that was transmitting in Morse code, sending text in 5 character groups at a fairly rapid clip. This was at 0505 UTC (around 1 a.m. local time). This is probably one of those spy stations you read about in the news, where some country's intelligence service sends encrypted messages over shortwave to their agents abroad. A lot of these stations apparently operate from Cuba. I obviously have no idea where this station was from or what message it was transmitting. But even when you have no idea what the station is or is sending, it is still fascinating to run across these sorts of stations. Another example of the unusual sort of thing you find on the radio bands.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I also heard this station 3-13-11 at 9:30pm pst in southern california. The signal was in reduced carrier am, blasting numbers off at a fast pace in cw (audio form) and then a data burst, followed by something that kind of sounded like a short psk sound for about 1 second. Hope this helps, it sure got me interested!