Hello my friends in geekdom,

This was really crazy but I stumbled over this article:

http://www.archive.org/details/ird059

and it really “freaked me out” (because I’ve heard these sounds before.  A lot of it!  In some very interesting musical contexts).  I’ve never known about this, but there is this thing called “Numbers Stations” that are broadcast on shortwave radio as a way to communicate to international spies and stuff.  Thankfully, somebody has collected and posted some of this stuff to the Internet. I listened to some of the samples and I recognized sounds that were used in various recordings of music that I enjoy such as obscure stuff like ChromaKey, Brian Eno, etc.. As we all know my taste in music is poop anyway, but I’m curious if any of it sounds familiar to any of you? I just thought this was interesting, and I know I have super geeky friends out there that would find this “neato” as well.

I hope for comments here. You don’t need to be a member to comment on the article.  I wont Spam you or track you down on Facebook (as I refuse to have one).

I want any opinions on it for example:  “yeah! know all about this”, or “Chad why don’t you find something to do”, or “… of course i knew this you idiot”.

NOTE: you may not use any of the above comments.

Cheers and stuff,

Chad