Number Stations Revealed - Final: Swapping datacards and the interior

[sz42781]

Want to get your door kicked in? Hook that up to a transmitter.

[FeCr3]

Very interesting! I had wondered years and years and years,how look such a Numbers station speech machine Thanks for showin it!!

[Sven2Perroy]

does it run on battery ???

[PeterStaal01]

@Sven2Perroy

The machine has a builtin power supply module and runs on 220-230 Volts AC, like you have in Western Europe.

[Channellock12]

I am probably late in asking this question but who how or where did you run into this machine? I mean how do you go about purchasing a numbers station machine?

Just wondering

[PeterStaal01]

@Channellock12

They could've been found on eBay for a while.

I don't know if that is still the case.

They are basically collector items. And all speech morse generators from the (former) DDR are in the possession of various collector around the world now.

I myself don't own such a generator.

[PeterStaal01]

@Channellock12

They could've been found on eBay for a while.

I don't know if that is still the case.

They are basically collector items. And all speech morse generators from the (former) DDR are in the possession of various collector around the world by now.

I myself don't own such a generator.

[TalksWithDirt]

The PCB's look hand made, easy to believe it came from the Eastern Bloc. But a huge question in my mind. Why is the interface in English? And all the commands are English too. That signature is not Russian but is made in latin cursive. Who made this machine.

[PeterStaal01]

@TalksWithDirt

These machines were made by East-Germany for use within different Eastern Bloc countries. So that explains the use of latin characters.

Although I do understand that English would be the last language to use within the Eastern Bloc it was a great and logical way to leverage the language differences between the Eastern Bloc countries. In Germany they don't speak Russian (and vice versa) and the same goes for Cuba.

They all had their own language and used a common language.

[SWL1409]

Pretty amazing.

[Ryoga2K]

So "atención" is actually coded into the card, very interesting, I should bring one with me if I go to Cuba, maybe they need a replacement lol, I think they still use that thing.

[gordon2591]

Peter the chips in the unit are Zilog chips...I used to work for them here in USA!

[LCduT]

Amazing stuff. When you say the processors used were Eastern Bloc copies of the Zilog Z80, the picture shows what looks like actual Z80s on the board. I presume those are aftermarket replacements? Did the equipment have to be restored with many new parts?

[MattExzy]

Now this is awesome..

[rtsanch]

Some of this machines has information of the manufacturer and model?

Can you share the hi resolution images of this machines?

[lucadepu]

peter staal, where do you reside?

[PeterStaal01]

@lucadepu

In The Netherlands, as its says on my channel.

[Darrylb500]

Wow, so complicated compared to what can be done with just a piece of software nowadays...

I saw some other interesting stuff in the background in the first minute of the video, I'd definitely like to have a look around that guy's place :)

I'd give this five stars if I still could!

[hugestomper]

Does the voice synth works like the "text to speech" in windows; like "microsoft sam" ?

[KC8YOQ]

Dam where can I get one of these? i used to copy these type of stations when I was in the Army in Germany!

[dreammaker182]

@KC8YOQ So the US Army was interested in East German Numbers stations? Were you DIA?

[KC8YOQ]

@dreammaker182 No. I was ASA/NSA!

[dreammaker182]

@KC8YOQ That's really cool! I wish I could work for one of those agencies. I don't know what I would be doing though... It seems like a really interesting job but I am sure that there's a lot of stuff I wouldn't want to know if you understand what I mean. ;-)