Meaning of numbers station | Babel Free

Definitions

A shortwave radio station characterized by unusual broadcasts, often of artificially generated voices reciting streams of numbers, words, etc., supposedly of coded messages.

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Examples

“The most common numbers station features a young lady reading the numbers in Spanish. Other stations have both male and female voices reading numbers in Spanish, German, English and Chinese. So far, nobody has been able to decode any of the messages!”

“Naturally enough, no government has actually admitted to operating a numbers station, but the suspicion is there.”

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