Achtung! Gong & Chimes Numbers Station

[leakyspacesuit]

I'm a ham radio operator. I hear such stations regularly, mostly in 6-8Mhz. I've heard russian numbers stations, spanish, chinese, and english. They are alive and well! I'm knowledgeable about encryption. I'm certain they are using a one-time-pad cypher. (google it) So they're basically uncrackable. It's easy to understand why the use HF. It's reliable and nearly untraceable worldwide communications. A portable station can fire off a code, pack up and move on in minutes.

[ArmyJames]

Damn I miss the Cold War. Things were so much simpler then. There were rules.

[neversurdender]

@ArmyJames Theese still exist the lincolnshire poacher broadcasted till 08 and some still are active.

[idole8]

..makes for some great techo sample loops though....

[pdrg]

Not so much that the language is to be used once, but the encryption is stronger than any computer-based encryption as it uses a 'one time pad' (you can search that phrase for more info - some great resources online). These spoken numbers are literally uncrackable, so can be broadcast in the open quite safely.

[videogamer24385]

:11 those arent numbers those sound like phonetics to me! yankee fox-trot etc.

[TDurden1988]

it says "Luke I'm your father!".

[DJUsive1]

These stations are so strange to listen to...

[gonzo904]

WILCO



[davidrodgersNJ]

I think the "numbers stations" are spies sending coded messages.

Sounds paranoid, I know, but in WW2 spies sent coded letters over shortwave, so why not numbers nowadays?

[DJUsive1]

@davidrodgersNJ

The chances are you're completely right. Apparently here in the UK its illegal to tune in to them. Luckily its impossible to track who is listening to shortwave, so I guess its pretty hard to enforce. It's thought that these messages are written in a language designed to be used only once, then coded up into numbers and then read in whatever language is appropriate for the person intended to hear them.

[raincoaster]

Yankee Thirteen (?) Foxtrot?

[xzaxwarudox]

@raincoaster No, it's the word "hotel," not thirteen.

[synthax303]

@MrAce357

es heisst aber "trennung" und nicht "seven"

[MillBelater]

Is that Sarnoff at the Key?

[psychonaut3]

Wow...I picked up that chimes station years ago and always wondered what it was. I've still got a recording on tape somewhere. Thanks for solving the mystery :)

[maricahn]

I dunno why, but I love this sound

[J6V9H]

The best fucking sound in the world.

[Mashermat]

So this is where suicidemouse.avi stole the music from.

That video was stupid.

[KreigsMarine2]

This one is definitely one of the more spooky numbers stations that I've heard.

[MikeInc79]

The first one was a numbers tation from MOSSAD. An the gong-gong station belonged to East German NVA (The National Citizen Army). ENIGMA called it G3.

[grahamkeithtodd]

this is MADGDERBURG "ANNIE" the station was run by the STAZI(east german intel service from their station at MADGDERBURG in the former DDR

[wwwtotalitaerde]

Maybe its the German BND, the former GESTAPO. The dialect with a roling R could be originating from around Nürnberg, not eastern Germany. My Brother Markus Bott had been tortured by the BND during five and a half years. He was assassinated on july 11th 2009, just because of our homepage which is linked on my channel and our book Der Totalitäre Staat.

Martin Bott

[Ofir84]

lol aren't you the paranoic who believes in mind control rays?

[R0773N]

I don't think this is Stasi, this is a Conet recording right? It was made (recorded) well after East Germany ceased.

[UK31337]

@R0773N People say the German ones are being operated by the BND, basically German intelligence services.

[wontonmaster666]

mutually assured destruction boys, mutually assured destruction

[splork901]

Ah the good ole days of The Cold War Era! We played a gentleman's game of international chess with the old Soviet Bloc and the rules were clearly understood on both sides. Sadly this all ended on 9/11 when we entered the era of the Unpredictable Wars of the Religious Fanatics who respect neither lawl or the rules of order. Sad.

[TruKriegsaffeNo9]

...yeah, a gentleman's game of apocalypse and endless, soul-rending paranoia.

The only thing that's really changed is the lack of subtlety.

[jasong19711]

need to send someone to go see Mohammad

with some thermonukes

[regularchickens]

neither LAWL or the rules of order

[worId]

I just don't know whether to respect LAWL anymore myself. Troubled times.

[Efendi683]

Agreed, the bi-polar world was more predictable it not stable.  Both USSR and US had experienced world war and would most likely not have started another. The current non-state entities that we find ourselves fighting would have no qualms about using nuclear weapons for terrorism.

[ActionPocket]

In that sense, the cold war was a hoax. I see your point though.

[BloodPigggy]

Whip yo dick out.

[dewanevl]

@splork901 I think that two countries with huge nuclear arsenals, that had countries all over the world aligned on one or the other side, is a bit scarier than some suicide bombers. The latter might cause more terror but the former could have easily caused global nuclear war. And we had real gentlemen like Stalin and Lavrentiy Beria (google him for a treat). Mutually assured destruction was much, much more scary than some guys with regular bombs, playing fair or not.

[richardyingren]

I assume its the teleprinter type jingle is carrying the data and the cute bitch is job creation

[MikeInc79]

The gong-gong stations seems to be a former Stasi-station wich ceased in 1990.

[agebee]

The German Voice is the same Voice who spech the TIME settings via Telphone in Germany...BEIM NÄCHSTEN TON IST ES 23UHR und 5 Sekunden....PEEEP

[Astarath]

Do you have stairs in your house?

[myfragilesin]

goony goonage.

[epicnewsdaily]

gooooooooooooooons

[Abanamat85]

Does anyone have any stairs in their houses?

[lilbeefer]

no, fuck off

[Abanamat85]

haha, get fucked ya little bitch!

[k1LLAN1663R]

Im protected.

[forebodingburger]

Oh god, the gong and chimes. Probably the freakiest of all the numbers stations. That or the Swedish Rhapsody or whatever that is.

[Aeader]

hello goon

[davelister2005]

Hello, goons.

[BackSnapNasal]

Hi.

[JamesBum]

Achtung!

[t3rabyt3]

Seems almost like it's saying "Attention!" and then the name of the agent it is being broadcast to in code. Then those morse code like signals you can hear faintly the whole time (the beeping) are the message.

[dieselscience]

The faint/background high pitch beeping-kind of fast (with the female German number reader) is RTTY or radio teletype. To me, it sounds like first generation equipment. The newer and faster it got the more it KIND OF begins to sound like a telephone computer MODEM.

[k8ai]

The G3 Stasi Gong station is my favorite one. Kinda makes you want the cold war back so we can listen to these again ;-)

[Wa3ypx]

who was Stasi Gong??

[dieselscience]

To: Wa3ypx,

Gong refers to the tones (at about 0:50). The Stasi = Abbreviation for "Staatssicherheit" It was the East German secret police, their version of the KGB.

[Wa3ypx]

Aaahhh , very good. Thanks for the info. When I was younger those stations freaked me out.

[dieselscience]

;) No biggie. I used to live 11 miles from the E. German boarder in the late '80s.

[Wa3ypx]

Did you get East German T.V.? I suppose they had stations. Where they on the normal T.V. band? Bunch of propagand I would guess.

[dieselscience]

To: Wa3ypx, Yes. I don't know your age/if you have 'rabbit ears' on your TV- US system is UHF(chan. 13+) and VHF(2-13). E. Germans only had VHF at that time but also channel 1. AND they used UHF for radio communications. It was poor quality, like when the very first color TV began only this was in 1987! Most of it was low tone propaganda but the 'movies' always had "be a good socialist and report your neighbor if they are trying to flee to the west" messages. Their B.S. propaganda was on radio.

[Wa3ypx]

Oh yeah I'm a cold war kid. I remember life before cable/color tv. I would try to pick up "skip" on tv through our antenna. We would pick up Windsor Ontario sometimes. Think thats what started me into radio. Nice chattin wit you!

[dieselscience]

I used to in NC and later in Lower Alabama in 85-86 (got some Cuban propaganda) NOW imagine going to Fulda W. Germany, 11 miles from the E. German boarder. LOTS of propaganda on AM radio.

[DjMaXXimal]

@k8ai

I am not even able to define how right you are! (:

G3 was one of the most unique numbers station ever.

[dronespace]

@k8ai

Also my favourite too, the gong is so eerie

[neversurdender]

@k8ai You still can they still broadcast stuff like this for some reason

[14DAN16]

great video g3 gong chimes first hear on nigth in 198, a simple shortwave receiver 3 knob am fm sw......around 3.3 mhz strange

[colt79sigma]

They need to replace that stretched tape with a CD!!

[colt79sigma]

They need to replace that stretched tape with a CD !! It does sound rather scary though ...

[em23]

translation;

"attention all field agents. today's soup is CLAM CHOWDA!"

[Helltormentor]

that tune starting at 0.25 sounds like a tune from old videogame

[amandalee7747]

Another Great video