The Buzzer
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The Buzzer
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#2I know quite a few interesting Wikipedia entries get posted here but this was a particularly fascinating one! I've spent the best part of an hour learning about numbers stations and fail-deadly game theory :)
Great submission.
On topic: does anyone have anything extra (link wise) about "The Buzzer", Google searches are mostly leading to conspiracy sites...
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#3http://www.archive.org/details/ird059 is a great archive of numbers station recordings
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#4http://www.archive.org/details/ird059 is a great archive of numbers station recordings
http://www.irdial.com/conet.htm is the official page - note the challenge a bit down the page
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#5The article speculates that its use as a way of communicating regular instructions to the military is "unlikely considering the station transmitted the simple buzz tone for at least 15 years before any words or numbers were broadcast." Yet: "The station transmits a buzzing sound that lasts 0.8 seconds, pausing for 1–1.3 seconds, and repeating 21–34 times per minute."
Given that the transmission even of the "buzz tone" isn't entirely regular, couldn't messages merely be modulated into these varying patterns? The rare portions of speech could just be a red herring.
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#6This is the sort of stuff that makes hacker news awesome. Thanks for posting.
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#7I know quite a few interesting Wikipedia entries get posted here but this was a particularly fascinating one! I've spent the best part of an hour learning about numbers stations and fail-deadly game theory :) Great submission. On topic: does anyone have anything extra (link wise) about "The Buzzer", Google searches are mostly leading to conspiracy sites...
Skeptoid has a nice episode on number stations and also “The Buzzer” including audio samples: http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4107
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#8Another fascinating, possibly related link based on the hypothesis that this is a dead-man's switch:
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#9for more info see http://www.brogers.dsl.pipex.com/page5.html
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#10It will be interesting to see whether use of these stations declines over the next few decades. Surely global adoption of the internet has made it the easiest place to hide clandestine communication?