1_02: Counting CIA

Track Name: Counting CIA
Disk: 1
Track: 02
Language: German
One of the less potent stations. Can still be rather chilling when listening to it in the wee hours -- which I am.

[@MrIveyIsBonkers]

Format: 3 figure ID followed by counting "### ### ### 1234567890" 10 minutes Ten 1 khZ beeps How many five figure groups there are "Gruppe ##" 5 figure single groups, pausing every third digit "Wiederhole" How many five figure groups there are "Gruppe ##" Repeat of 5 figure single groups, pausing every third digit "Ende"

[@bovinearrogance]

English please.

[@ThisFinalHandle]

I like to break up my numbers station listening with a good old 4 minute warning broadcast.

[@Radionut]

I used to copy this one when I was located in Germany specifically in southern Germany in the area called Bavaria. I was stationed at a little place called Bad Aibling. I was US Army ASA

[@sunnyvintage_8739]

ty for ur service

[@shugafoo7457]

Tell us more please.

[@CM-st1dl]

@@shugafoo7457 (but in CODE!)

[@reece9599]

well what does it say

[@gregorschmidt6888]

@@reece9599 it says „mushrooms“

[@Ellenslife851]

From what I studied about these stations a lot of them were used for war they had radars and would use number codes to let know if enimys were about from theres

[@justina1909]

Actually they where used more for spies or intelligence work, as unlike phone calls or internet communication, you can only track where a radio signal is coming form, not who picks it up. That's why even with modern tech, an old school method like a number station is still used, as its almost foolproof. As the only way you can decode its message is to catch a spy decoding it (with a one time translation page that chaged every broadcast, for example 1 might mean "A" one day but mean "B" the next) in the act.

[@Ellenslife851]

@@justina1909 Makes sense. They didn’t have Internet and stuff like that back in the 1940s and It’s a good thing too I think the world could do without Internet and cell phones we would be better off because back in the old days people used to just write letters to people if they need to get in touch with them or called them on the phone

[@Ellenslife851]

@@justina1909 And I believe this is a safer method of going about it especially because there are certain times that the government has to be secretive when it comes to a war or something like that where they’re trying to protect their soldiers and spies. You never know with the Internet if the enemy or terrorist could catch on to the spies whereabouts and snuff them out before They get a chance to stop the criminal activity

[@TheDancingRomeo]

every single one of these signals have been echoing in my dreams the past 3 years

[@deaaronfox5]

how about the past 4 years

[@elcazador9900]

​@@deaaronfox5 how about the past 5 years

[@nbsp-]

@@elcazador9900how about the past 6 years

[@IsaacFoster..]

How about 6 years?

[@DaniZeAlmighty]

how about 7 years?

[@svinjamaria]

0:03 wow I love this Rammstein song

[@ravenstorm2912]

Counting in German, 1-eins, 2 zwei, 3 drei, 4 vier, 5 funf, 6 sechs, 7 sieben, 8 acht,9 neun, 10 zehn

[@herihermawan100]

OKAY -_-

[@jenno2635]

Don't forget 0 = null

[@jesterking27]

This is better than Rosetta Stone lol

[@unaffiliatedperson]

reminds me of kraftwerk.

[@rosemary_rose0]

Yes

[@Zynth301]

kraft twerk🟧⬛️🍑🍑🍑

[@l.mleveille6593]

Hahaha I love it!! So mysterious

[@pressureworks]

Remembering hearing this east coast usa, always assumed it was the east germans. Did they use the voa transmitting facilities ?

[@Skyrilla]

I don't know why people find these scary... it's just numbers. It's used for intelligence officers.

[@CentralCrazy]

It's the ambiance of the distorted mechanic voices saying numbers slowly repeated over and over followed by warning chimes and filled with radio static that creeps people out usually

[@BLACKTHUMB01]

Visited the Cryptologic Museum at the N.S.A. facility in Maryland, U.S.A. I found it devoid of any reference to Number Stations.

[@StG45m]

Because they're still widely used.

[@whiplash3kilo756]

Yes they are very much so

[@L_Bribus]

Enjoyable.

[@oakterracecondominium3064]

Scary as hell.

[@mondrider9138]

Just are numbers

[@whiplash3kilo756]

Just numbers. 😆, But in those numbers are orders to do something. Shhhh.

[@alexmarshall4331]

Gone are the days(and nights)

[@whiplash3kilo756]

🤣

[@whiplash3kilo756]

Gone is my entire life. Been here since the original poster

[@alexmarshall4331]

@@whiplash3kilo756 Even the T shirt is faded...BUT it's still readable from the back of the box!!! 👉🇬🇧👈👉💎👈

[@rogerholt1116]

Ozymandias BY PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said-“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal, these words appear: My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

sweet dreams

[@Idonotknowwhatishouldputonthis]

Literally How All Kids Count their Numbers Back in time

[@CrappleFartini]

What's with the person in the background, starting at 3:08 and heard again at 3:25? Or was that just some kind of interference?

[@montysmith6355]

i think it was a guy telling them that the pizza was just delivered

[@alexmarshall4331]

I think its called "bleed over" from another station👉🇬🇧👉⚡

[@rosemary_rose0]

@@alexmarshall4331 probably

[@whiplash3kilo756]

That was the original message in overlay.

[@inchworm]

2 down 150 to go

[@Ellenslife851]

It was all so a way to protect that country’s government more so in ww1 and ww2 before just before tv

[@pavan923]

@ORAMER LØL Was this East German or West German?

[@whiplash3kilo756]

Both

[@whiplash3kilo756]

Still relevant and used today

[@kprnoobkiller4418]

The numbers what do they mean

[@TheCrunchyMadness]

This is so weird.

[@loganblack6572]

is she saying royal?

[@hangyuI]

5 years late but null, 0 in german

[@chucknorris9397]

MY FUCKING EARS

[@whiplash3kilo756]

🤣

[@herihermawan100]

sounds like germany

[@herihermawan100]

is this CynthIA station?

[@rangers199487]

dirty heri Sister Station.

[@wesleymccurtain166]

spies

[@KrazeeClark]

The Woodpecker sleeps only in the frozen desert on the 32nd of September.

[@KrazeeClark]

+Victor Korgoth Ooookay.

[@michaelkolai4288]

0:56 reverse alarm from a truck

[@caligula2167]

Is it me or the voice at 3:23 sounds a lot like Russian?

[@notsasuke22222]

Im russian and i cant even hear what the guy on the background is saying

[@seth047]

@@notsasuke22222it’s German numbers

[@nuclearTANK]

german

[@CArLosS6300]

Ї Ї Ї Ї SIX XIS 6

[@parrxtkun]

0/10 worst track in the album do far

[@aliciaandfam1111]

Eins zwei drei vier funf sechs sieben acht nuen zehn