3:24 "Russian intelligence..." - that's an oxymoron if ever there was one!

we know nothing about radio, we watched you and bought a uv5r, then we got home base and cb, then we got the ats20+, 6 months on and we have listened to the iss, listened to number stations, heard the Ukraine war, and spoken to people on the other side of the world, many thanks xx

Here on the western side of the USA (State of Arizona), sadly numbers stations are too distant to pick up, however on occasion I can pick up the 'Japanese Slot Machine'. I was tickled the first time I picked it up late one night. Thanks for covering these very interesting stations and giving thorough explanations of them. Well done. 👍

Another informative video Lewis! Number stations are very easy to get down here in Australia, especially HM01, XPA2, XPB

A few nights ago I was scanning between 8-7MHz and I found somebody KEYING by turning a Tetra-like signal on and off. I thought it was just some protocol thing at first - but nope, somebody was keying it by hand. That's somebody that badly needs a telephone.

Thank you for sharing this interesting and educational video with us. A couple of weeks ago I came across your excellent KZfaq channel and the all the wonderful videos you are making. It rekindled my interest in shortwave radio and now, for the first time in 40(ish) years, there's a long wire antenna out in the garden and a short wave receiver on my desk!

Hi Lewis- many thanks for another really interesting video. Do appreciate your channel. Keep up the great work.

for those of us like me who dont have super radios or massive aerials i went on a netherlands SDR and caught the transmission on 5409, i would like a shed and an aerial but can pick up all sorts using sdr stations on my mac pro....these videos explain a lot of the noises and beeps i hear as i tune through bands, thanks great videos

Just so you know, the 7300's spectrum/waterfall can be set to be on the carrier or suppressed carrier in SSB instead of in the middle of the filter. It helps to be more consistent with other panadapters or spectrum analyzers.

Excellent work, Mr. Ringway. Thanks to you, I've started doing more SW listening. I even bought an ATS-20+ because why not? It's super affordable. Even with an external wire antenna, though, it doesn't seem to get great reception where I live, and since it doesn't come with any instructions I'm left to hunt around the internet for hints on the various features and controls. My best SW radio, though, is an old Grundig FR-200 that I bought years ago, probably at Radio Shack before they folded. It's an analog tuner so I never know exactly which frequency I'm on, but even with the built-in telescopic antenna I can pick up a lot of stations at the right time of day. I swear I heard that some morse code station the other night, around that same frequency.

To my surprise I caught a Cuban number station (voice and data?) last week on about 13.3 MHz. I used an old Icom R2 with a 30 feet piece of wire with a 9:1 unun

If I'm not mistaken, in the 1980's BBC broadcasted whole computer programmes over FM, maybe you could feed the last stream to a BBC Micro or C64 and maybe text will appear...

The last one was defo me as a little kid loading up Attic Attack on my ZX Spectrum.

Excellent receptions! Really amazing the last two signals...a mixup of standards among Fax, Psk, Pactor and something more. Really undecodable. Very interesting. Good job. Well done! Giovanni I0KQB, II0KT and II0LDV

Thanks for getting me into this! I got all those bar E11a on my new (not Roland) 808, gutted 😂. Did get good XPA2 yesterday though, also today but not so good. 👍

Wow, this is truly excellent, Lewis, cheers!

That last station sounds almost like a dialup. Then short burtst of data. Then the main part that looks like its sweeping. Interesting stuff.

Thanks for the mention in the credits! And people say that shortwave is dead.... ha! Not quite. Still lots of uses.

Good day good sir. Great follow up as after the last i was curious if your new device would be a shelf diva or actually used(i don;t mean for that to sound harsh, sorry.). So damn cool to get as many finds as you did in such a short time. Keep on keepin' on!

Mate I think Russia is having us on… that data one sounded more like a kids toy mobile phone…. 🤣

617 " . . . you should really give it a try. . ." You say this like the home office has lost touch with sleeper agents and this is an attempt to reactivate them.

Awesome Lewis, I’ll start monitoring them frequencies. Thanks buddy.

Not that it affects anything 'oblique' is an alternative name for a slash separator '/'

Some nice signals Lewis and as always, great production and narrative! 73

interesting Lewis, thanks !

By the way, "oblique", aka slash, stroke etc (/) is not the same as a dash (-).

Hi Lewis, do you also do FM DX, since there is Sporadic-E around, would love to see a short documentary about this band as well! 73!

Interesting you post this! Just a few hours ago I caught the end of a Spanish numbers station on 10.715 MHz from Western New York. I’m presuming it’s from Cuba, but can’t be for sure. The signal quality was very poor. This is the first numbers station that I have heard in years.

I wanna become a spy just so I can decipher the noombas.

Always appreciate your research and presentations, thanks for all you present, your advice, and knowledge

My favourite of the digital data transmissions is the XPA2. It is Russian as well.

Great video Lewis thanks for making and posting 👍

love watching these videos

I need a new portable S W radio.

After getting impressed with your videos, I tried to find strange and number stations in North Western India.. Found few.. Mainly Chinese language Ones and in similar languages may be Korean or Japanese etc.. Nothing in Any other language..

Thanks for the info, I have heard them before but never understood what it was.

Wonder why a Polish station broadcasts in English?

That is fascinating.

Really interesting. Thanks for the vid :)

You actually just got me into short wave radio listening. I purchased one, but you can listen to other frequencies. The radio I purchased was a Tecsun PL880. Any recommendations on how I can get better signals? I’ve heard that you can attach a wire to the antenna, and put it out the window or something.

Thanks!

great video lewis

Read a report the other day that Ukraine has been very active lately on the numbers, it didn't give any info on the freg.

Who came up with a distinction between E11's null messages and actual traffic transmissions, to call the latter "E11A"? They all go in same schedules, and the format for both types of transmissions is actually the same - the two digits following the word "Oblique" in the call-up indicate the number of 5-digit groups to be sent. Obviously, if it says 00, then no message is to be sent :) And when there is one, each group is repeated twice, and afterwards the whole message is repeated once again - this time each group is read just once. So again, there's no such thing as "E11A" :) There is S11a, that's true, but that's because years ago they sometimes used a Polish-language variant, which ENIGMA/ENIGMA2000/Priyom designated simply S11. Unfortunately, few recordings exist of this variant :(

Very interesting!

Loving this Lewis. What antenna are you using for these transmissions?

Fascinating. Is "The Lincolnshire Poacher" still going?

What antenna system do you use for HF?

E11 is cool. I listen sometimes on the Twente websdr. It's about the only game in town as far as voice broadcasts. V13 I guess sometimes, but I don't speak Chinese. V13 is a mystery. Who is the operator? I know, New Star Broadcasting Station. But, wtf is that?

Where's the crackpot comments? Loosing your touch Lewis. 😆

the compmex one is mfsk !!!!! except for the tail

Hi lewis, just wondering if you'd be interested in doing a off-topic video on the alternative to numbers stations, the online "the net" with sandra bullock style super secret spy contact system that the US and UK used, right up until Iran hacked it, and provided the russians and chinese with the technique.... 😮 Theres a good 'Darknet Diaries' podcast about it that drills it down to normal person tech level, its worth a listen, then maybe make a off-topic video off the back of it? It was absolute carnage for US and UK intel, pretty much a total loss in 3 major countries, and partial losses in plenty others. Still recovering now 👀

Hi, Lewis good wee video. What antenna are you using. 73s Kev

hi sorry to bother you but what dose all the sounds and numbers mean ?

Peter Gore Seer, Many Countrys Use Radio Nothing Sinister, Just Scare Mungering.

Excellent Lewis! What antenna do you use for the IC-7300?

Th3 Numb3rs Mas0n...

So the Oblique Woman is Natural speaking or artifical

I'd be monitoring the Polish station. Rumor has it that the Wagner group is building troops near Polands border...

Lewis, by any chance have you gotten the chance of listening to E25?

I should start listening to some European websdrs. All I hear over here are cuban number stations and copycat americans who think they are cool. Interesting video!

Null message.

Can you explain the point in listening to these?

Did anybody else try to run thr morse code through a decoder? I know nothing about morse code, or radjo for that matter but i kept getting For the slower part *119 119 119 119 For the faster part 697T3 51519 98742 777Y9 8WAMI Im not sure how accurate

very interesting! I'd like to know where is it exactly in Warsaw at Googlemaps. Greetings from there.