I love your information Lewis, but could you get your wife/partner to do the voice- overs? Sounding like Gary Nevillle dropping off a 36 hour speed rush is just... well crap actually and detracts from the research you conducted. Most international readers would have no idea of the GN remark anyway, but you get it... Boost your ratings = cash Lewis! 😊

In 2002, I was deployed in Kosovo as part of the NATO mission. To pass the time, I brought my Ten Tec RX-320 and spent hours scanning between bands. One night, I stumbled upon a female voice with a vaguely British accent reading letters in the standard phonetic alphabet. As the chief of plans operations and security for Area Support Group Falcon, I recorded the transmission on a mini-CD and checked in with the G2 of the MNB-East headquarters, which was led by the British. However, he had no idea what it meant and assured me that a British number station wouldn't have a British-sounding voice reading the code. He even suggested it could be the Mossad. Listening to your recordings, I realized that the transmission sounded almost exactly the same. The voice would interject administrative instructions like "Message begins" or "Message repeats." It later dawned on me that Kosovo was a hub of spying activity at that time, which made this experience one of the most surreal moments I had during my time in the Army. It was strange to realize that there was a secret and clandestine world operating around us while I listened to this peculiar transmission in a Seahut.

About 20 years ago I was sitting at home in my quiet apartment, had my computer off but speakers were still on. About 4am local time a very faint message starts going through my speakers, was able to make it a little louder by turning up the volume. Something about a guy had just arrived in town and was on his way to drop something off. Then another guy came on and said come on by right now. It was as if something in the frequency of my speakers had intercepted a radio transmission from the mob. Never had anything strange like that happen since and its something I wont forget. This video kinda reminds me of that.

Very informative video of the MOSSAD message stations. One thing to point out which I observed in its final years of transmission on short wave. They were constantly targeted by jamming presumed to be from Iran. The most common type I noticed was the bubble type jammer which was also used to target other stations from outside Iran transmitting in the national Farsi language. I think the constant jamming was too much for the recipients to get a clear signal for decoding messages which might be why the shortwave transmissions eventually ended.

This is my favorite numbers station of all time!

Lewis, I love your work!! I'm from Michigan. You started my path to getting my tech license. I love the accent and don't ever change!!

Fascinating subject, I have a small SW Radio, haven’t listened in a minute, but this so cool to me. The Cold War spy operations were just awesome to hear how it was operated, and what they had to do to receive messages in a phone booth, a dead rat, etc. They had to drive in a maze in a city to make sure that they weren’t followed. Just awesome!

I was at Ft. Bragg in the mid 90s. I have a small table top shortwave radio and I heard a similar voice to E10. The difference was the group contained a numeral and was an EXTREMELY strong signal. IIRC, "Kilo Papa Alpha Two" was often and strong.

Possibly one of the most famous stations, of course, after Wilco used the "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" transmission in the song "Poor Places," and as the inspiration for the title of the album.

oh well, was nice knowing you.

Turn on any Hollywood movie or television programming or hip hop radio channel for messages from Mossad

Thats is the cutest sounding numbers station I've ever heard.

As a former IDF soldier, I have many friends who have worked on collecting information from foreign number stations during SIGINT operations on a Beechcraft type aircraft. They don’t know anything about E05 but they were military intelligence and not Mossad.

Fun fact: E10 sounds like "Eitan" which is a common Hebrew name meaning "Strong", "Powerful", "Substantial", "Meaningful". I suspect E10A is called that way because in Hebrew, adding the -a suffix to names sometimes makes them feminine, "Eitana" is not a name but "Etna" is.

Excellent video, Lewis, that is some fascinating stuff! I didn't even know Mossad was in the numbers game, but I guess why wouldn't they be? You're making me want to start scanning the bands again, cheers!

fascintating as ever - thoroughly enjoy these videos !

Well done. Used to hear them a lot in the 1980's and 1990's...

Maybe all females sound similar broadcasting on numbers stations, but am I alone in thinking this sounds very like the ‘Lost Cosmonaut’ recording made by the Battista brothers in 1961? I know it’s rumoured to be a forgery, and listening to these I am relieved to think that it is so. Any information people have on this subject is greatly appreciated. 🙏

I would venture that false-starting the message some minutes before the planned time may have been a way to wake-up any operative that might have dozed off while waiting for his assignment.

Thank you for the video. Are there still many numbers stations to day? From Kristian in Denmark

Fascinating! Nice Job. Thanks.

Never had the pleasure of catching this one.cheers lewis

I enjoy your content on a regular basis, so thanks very much! could you perhaps do a video explanation of the differences and reasons for using suppressed carriers vs the opposite and modulation methods and so on? I know there's always Wikipedia, but that's way too technical in many ways. anyway, thanks 😊

Never forget the USS Liberty and the brave men and women who served on it.

what a great video, thanks for the research on this its really informative.

This brought back memories of listening to my Globe Patrol shortwave set or my Realistic DX400 in the 70s and 80s. I live near DC, and I’m very sure I heard this station way back in the day.

Goodnight, and thank you.

I think most Mossad messages could actually be rashei teivot (1st letter of each word in a phrase) using NATO alphabet. Hebrew uses it a lot. It can get quite confusing as it is in Hebrew, and can get even worse if you take it to Latin script.

Interesting different format of numbers station. I love that with goodnight message.

Mossad scares me. In not a good way

Interesting. I recently heard a number station around 10 mhz. I found out later it was in Cuba. H10 I think.

Nice research, thanks again

Fascinating stuff.

Hey I've asked before but Ill do it one more time. Can you make a video outlining the basics of getting into radio like tips and equipment for someone on a budget?

After the group count, the YL says "text text".

Wow, E10 was the 1st numbers station I've ever found on shortwave! You could only imagine how spooky it was to stumble upon that lady reading strange "codewords" on & on 😆 Certainly their H3E/CUSB modulation helped 😉 I do remember a few of their identifiers but very few frequencies sadly. I know ULX was on 4880 kHz, colliding with SW Radio Africa which beamed to Zimbabwe in late 2000s, and there even was a period it was jammed with a cacophonous 8-note music sample. Unfortunately my searches on that jammer never resulted in any recordings of that jammer 😢 although there were articles about VOA broadcasts to Zimbabwe also suffering from jamming. Another E10 frequency I remember was 7540 kHz. This one collided with one of Firedrake frequencies deployed against Radio Free Asia Mandarin Chinese service. There was a time I used to listen to Firedrake a lot, just didn't know other shortwave radio enthusiasts were calling it Firedrake... By the way, the 2 after the ID normally indicated NO message was to follow - as opposed to what you said in the video. The ID would've been repeated twice every couple of seconds from 5 minutes to TOH/BOH to maybe a minute to, and if there was no 2 in that ID, this callup would resume at TOH/BOH, this time repeating the ID continuously, until a message began. At least that's how I remember these things 😉 I'm surely missing E10. It made the SW bands so much spookier, more interesting, and, well... more addictive 😅

Used to hear these all the time in the early 90's when I was in England. I'd be tuning around and often hear the lady with "Ooniform, leema, Xray" or "Yankee, hotel fokestrot."

Text Text. That is what I copied. Also, many of the lower frequency schedules were intended for local countries. Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Egypt, and the Saini desert. Spent thousands of hours when living in The Buffer Zones recording and analyzing the signals. Troop movements and ships traveling up the Suez were of great interest to Israel and others.

New to short wave listening. Are there any go to books and resources to learn about the history short wave, its application and culture?

Your videos are always super interesting even though I can do nothing with the info.

Great series, very enjoyable. One correction here: Israel’s capital is Jerusalem.

Isnt it the Mossad antenna located in Sarona Complex? Im just throwing the guess since i go past it almost everyday. If not i would still like you to talk about it once

thx

They know! Shut it down! *stereotype cartoon goes here*

You've already pissed off the fcc, are you determined to get assassinated 😅

Wasn't it sharing frequencies with the maritime station 4XZ Haifa Radio ? Just like the French number station using the frequencies of FAV22 morse training station.

Thanks RM. Great Information Again. Take Care****

@RingwayManchester >>> FWIW: I do not have a true _"bucket list."_ That said, I would love to visit Israel sometime during my remaining years...👍

E10 is probably best known outside of SWL circles for being sampled on the Wilco album “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot” which obviously gets its name from one of the station identifiers.

Look up OPERATION TALPIOT.

Are there any numbers stations (or other oddities) that operate currently, or is this strictly something from a bygone era? 🤔

Someone already asked this in a post. If they are not using these "number stations" now how are they communicating? Also, in the old days, I went to Washington, D.C. and noticed that many embassies had antennaes and microwave antennaes up on their roofs. Now, there is nothing up on those roofs that I can see from Google. Are they communicating by a hidden method or by satellite uplink? Someone please answer. I am very curious. Thank you.

I guess, the message GOODNIGHT was meant to notify the recipients, the station is going down.

Hey Lewis, are hams keeping an eye open for E10 and company with everything that's happening right now in israel? Greetings!

I challenge you to investigate the "stingray" listening devices discovered in 2017-18 near the United States White House in Washington, D.C., USA.

I think if I was running a spy outfit: 1) I would have some new "number stations" transmitting random nonsense to keep the other guys busily listening in. 2) I would want to hide messages in what seemed to be uninteresting content like radio plays and classical music. 3) I would hire some fake psychics (are there any other kind) and prime them to mention the other guys secret stuff now and then just to weird out the other side a bit.

Regarding the other topic on accent, what I find funny is your pronunciation of sxedule, instead of my usual hearing of skedule. Btw, sxedule would be a more intuitive pronunciation for a brazilian, because for us, ch sounds exactly as x does.

Fascinating!! DE 4X5WB,Israel.

Am I the only one thinking: THATS EVE!!! Wall-E must have a station to!!

"Novem-beer"... (burrrrp!)

Very interesting!

So… not a deadhand for the space laser?

So if all these number stations have gone how do they communicate now ?

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Is IT possible that the goodnight was sent by an amateur with a 10kW SW?

I guess thath LIMA LIMA word says thath group 1 and 3 call us by Landline and I guess ODRBTFAB means they are asking where about and their location

dude wrote about the same per letter to the numberstation I work at...

Are you familiar with Unit 8200?

שלום

These messages should be sent in the voice of Jackie Mason.

LOL... KWEE-beck

By Way of Deception

So what is used today...twitter should be a good place

Interesting they use kwee-bek rather than Key-bek

Should have got Cote de Pablo for the dictation!

novembier

Alpha Romeo Tango 1 Charlie 2 Oscar 3 Oscar 4 Lima 5 Charlie 6 Hotel 7 Alpha 8 November 9 November 10 Echo 11 Lima

There is almost nothing that is more secure than a one time pad. It's why numbers stations transmit in the red instead of encrypted. Even computer encryption is more easily cracked than a set of well made one time pads.

shut it down :P

Was there any messeges ever cracked/decoded by outsiders?

Quick fact: Israel’s capitol is Jerusalem…

YHF

Does it have a 'The'? I thought it was just called 'MOSSAD'

Why would they broadcast in English and not Hebrew?

E10…. DEEZ NUTS

Is this like the CIA for Israel ?

She pronounced "three" wrong, it should be "tree" in phonetic alphabet.

01:00 Are you sure that's the capital of Israel?

Jerusalem is the CAPITAL city., not Tel Aviv.

Great video! Just one nit: Israel's capital is Jerusalem, not Tel Aviv.

Mossad? Talking about mossad is like talking about Clintons.......people go missing. Hope your "will" is up to date. hahaha. 😆

Alright, so can someone tell me what a metzitzah b'peh is

Just for the record, the capital of Israel is Jerusalem, not Tel Aviv.

no there is a very very big error here : austria always cooperated with the CIA and the Mossad and the french number station of the HnA in austria was very probable a numbber station sent from austria exklusivve for the mossad. the mossad did have numberstation sent from sender fleckendorf near ansfelden upper austria... these number stations miss in your video" !!! but veryy good video what is presented in the video.. bti the austria mossad coopperatiion on number stations misses !

Why does this otherwise bespoke and informative little channel attract so many nutjobs in the comments? * Not asking you Colin 🙄

Jerusalem is the capital. Not Tel-Aviv.

Remember when Israel attacked a US Navy ship "by accident"?

Sloppy job, Mossad.

Great video. Only thing I have to say is: FREE PALESTINE.

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.