{"id":3775,"date":"2011-09-21T07:59:45","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T11:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/?p=3928"},"modified":"2023-04-29T13:36:26","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T17:36:26","slug":"conet-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2011\/09\/conet-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Conet Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Perhaps one of the more intriguing uses for radio broadcasting is spying. Covert radio stations broadcasting coded number or letter groups have been the interest of SWL and others for years. \u00a0The Conet Project<\/a> sought to gather several of these recordings and make a CD out of them. \u00a0What they ended up with is a rather spooky 4 CD<\/a> set of various spy numbers stations throughout the world conducting their business which dates back to 1997. \u00a0Since that date, samples of those recordings have been used in several movies and by recording artists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While stationed on Guam doing important work for the government, we would often come across these numbers stations in the late 1980s. An East German numbers station was only 1 KHz away from one of our working frequencies, thus around 2 am local time, an East German lady would regale me with half an hour of five number groups in German, which is slightly off frequency, was utterly delightful. \u00a0We knew where it came from because of this\u00a0and others like it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n