Gerät 32620: the machine that powered numerous number stations
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Re: Gerät 32620: the machine that powered numerous number stations
#2Would love to have a bit of numbers station-related hardware. The weirdness and mystery of These stations has teased me for decades.
Re: Gerät 32620: the machine that powered numerous number stations
#3XRAY CLACKS OVERHEAD
seven seven six eight six
one seven fower two zero
six eight six one seven
fower six eight two zero
six seven six foxtrot six
fower two zero seven seven
seven two six foxtrot seven
fife six seven six eight
seven fower zero alfa xray
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Re: Gerät 32620: the machine that powered numerous number stations
#4Note: “Gerät” is simply the German word for “Device”, “Machine” or “Equipment”.
Re: Gerät 32620: the machine that powered numerous number stations
#5Interesting! I wonder what these were actually used for. Word on the street was communication with spies using a one-time-pad or something. I'm sure it was important or they wouldn't have built all this stuff for it. It wouldn't have been for the "what are those soviets up to now???" effect :D
And the more esoteric explanations like triggering preprogrammed behaviour (like the plot of Black Ops I refers to) are clearly nonsense. So I suppose it must have been something like that, the comms with spies thing.
After all the mysterious woodpecker only turned out oto be a poorly functioning OTH radar.
Re: Gerät 32620: the machine that powered numerous number stations
#6MAME emulation coming in 3, 2, 1...
Re: Gerät 32620: the machine that powered numerous number stations
#7This is super interesting - I didn't know the machines that produced the sounds for many numbers stations is well known and actually pretty impressive for its time. Very cool!
Re: Gerät 32620: the machine that powered numerous number stations
#8For anyone interested in number stations I can only recommend checking out https://priyom.org/number-stations as far as I know it's one of the most complete online resources about them.
Re: Gerät 32620: the machine that powered numerous number stations
#9Interesting! I wonder what these were actually used for. Word on the street was communication with spies using a one-time-pad or something. I'm sure it was important or they wouldn't have built all this stuff for it. It wouldn't have been for the "what are those soviets up to now???" effect :D And the more esoteric explanations like triggering preprogrammed behaviour (like the plot of Black Ops I refers to) are clear…
Maybe they were used for sending automated radio from lighthouses etc? Radio beacons.
Re: Gerät 32620: the machine that powered numerous number stations
#10Note: “Gerät” is simply the German word for “Device”, “Machine” or “Equipment”.
Gadget.