Hunting for numbers stations 📻

[AlexRixon]

Before the "internet of things" there was the "radio network of things" to transmit telemetry data from sensors, weather devices, tide monitoring stations etc. We think of smart devices as a new idea, but this is just the most recent iteration which has made it more accessible to the public.

[stickiedmin]

When I was at school, if we wanted the computing teacher to completely blow off the lesson, so that we could be lazy and get away with playing Solitaire, all we had to do was ask, "Sir? Is it true that it's possible to connect to the Internet using a CB?" and he'd be off. It was his favourite thing to complain about - worked every time.
This would have been around 1995.

[DECIFERTHIS]

In the army we learned how to scan frequencies like that, then block them out by transmitting a tiny buzz over it

[khem]

I've spent an unreasonable amount of time on this website ever since I watched your video on number stations a while ago.. :) A new obsession for me, really cool stuff. Would be super interested if you guys made another vid on them and shortwave in general! Thanks 😁

[WolfangStudios]

Being a Ham, and electronics/computer nerd in general, TMR's Radio vids, and those with folks like Deviant Ollam are some of my most favorite and I hope to see new eps that are similar! 73

[sandasturner]

so those "dots" are pieces of data being transferred in raw, radio frequencies, and then are "interpreted by a large computer of some sort" which is then described as a "glorified radio receiver".

I learned something new!

[dharte]

I once tuned into one of the unused bands on my old AM radio and it was just a loop of the Skype ringtone thing. I listened to it for at least half an hour. Eventually i had to go and couldn't listen anymore. Never found it again

[virtualnuke-blym]

Somehow, my old guitar amp used to be able to pick up trucker radios. Doesn't even make any sense, I mean it literally just amplifies the input it gets from the guitar jack! And it also worked when there was no input plugged into the amp, so it's even more confusing how it worked.

Anyway, all I remember is one night when I was bored I just listened in on this one conversation which basically went like "...I went to this guy's house to go beat the shit out of him, and he sent his scrawny little kid to answer the door because he was too scared."

[firstname___lastname]

This brings me back to when I was strapped in a chair and some random people were asking me about what some numbers meant or something.
Anyways I told them to kiss my ass.

[gregk]

Not TV for sure. At 10.8 MHz you're listening to a band allocated by the FCC for land mobile radio. You're probably hearing a "low band" base station transmit station ID.

[DefAbSent]

This is a perfect short. I was hooked immediately. Happy to see y’all still pushing the channel

[tmb]

I remember this episode so well, glad you guys are still doing the show, great stuff as always.

[jelle-tje]

I use the KiwiSDR, too. Much respect for you.

[sanuelkessler]

Are you in my head? I literally was just thinking about this episode, and wondering how far back I would have to scroll through the timeline to find it so I can watch it.

[BracaPhoto]

That was my credit card number being sent to a buyer in Albuquerque

[zacharytaylor]

And if you go up far enough, you would find a 3-letter morse code looping in the low-VHF, and that is a VOR station used for air navigation, around 112-118MHz. Higher than that, akd you can hear actual airplane and ATC transmitting between 118-136MHz.

[KezzieCoyote]

I toyed with this website a long time ago, it’s fascinating how much data is still being broadcast over radio, would love to have my own that can tune into such a massive range of broadcasts, its like exploring a forest

[nemo-x]

Now this sounds like an amazing hobby to get into. Sitting in a comfy cabin on a mountaintop for weeks on end communicating by sattelite for work and listening to data radio stations.

[KDill]

Man, teach me the way. I just bought a small Radio receiver, LW, MW, SW, SSB. I got some stuff. A Ham radio operator doing callouts, some guys just talking about random stuff on another. And went out just after sunset. And tried putting in some frequencies that may be transmitted by Russia. I got something weird. But not clear enough. Couldve just been a radio station.
I kind of unserstand what im doing. But very green.

[ReRedpal]

i also heard this in my own laptop thats kinda rare...