US Military 'Emergency Action Message'

Very poor recording (near 6740 khz, I believe on USB). Recorded at 2310 UTC on 12/2/08.

NATO letters and numbers with an American accent. Sounds like a numbers/letters station, but I am informed that this is actually a US military Emergency Action Message. EAMs are messages from the highest levels of the US military to direct USAF operations all the way up to and including nuclear war. I.e., the nuclear 'go' instructions will be distrubited - if it ever does happen - to sites and bombers by such an EAM.

Note that from observed EAMs the usage of numbers other than 2 through 7 is rare in the content of the EAM - and in fact a couple of zeroes can be heard on this recording). For further information see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Action_Messages

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• numbers
• station
• radio
• shortwave
• emergency
• action
• message
• code
• USAF
• nuclear
• war
• HF-GCS

[planetery]

You need to CAPTCHA a brain, boy.

[MattExzy]

Wow, that guy was wayyyyy off!

[deloreandmc88]

I wish i could understand something there, in this 5 cent camera

[itsCAKEfan]

@deloreandmc88

The Russian Govt. runs some famous number stations too.

[silverbird58]

@deloreandmc88 Don,t be silly , were pretty much the same all over.  nice screen name , however i prefure the stainless steel 60 thunderbird !

[DrMotorDude]

99.9% of what you hear in "EAM"s from US are drills or "keep freq open" messages. The real stuff is data transmission that must be decoded with computers.

[mubd1234]

Why is an audio CAPTCHA playing on a RADIO (clearly, you can see the antenna) and why is the voice saying the letters in the PHONETIC ALPHABET. This pussy is too scared to reply, because he's just got TOLD. TOOOOLLLLDDDD.

Also, why would LCduT relabel a CAPTCHA as a US military 'Emergency Action Message'?

[uploadJ]

Interesting recording; I wish now I had on tape a lot of the 'traffic' I copied as an SWL back in the 80's, before SAT COMMs became the norm and before encrypted HF comms became standard.

A 'fave' frequency to monitor back then was 10.243 MHz, where EAMs to SKYBIRD (SAC B-52's) flights were a regular occurance.

[nilsine]

Seriously? Have you never heard of a "radio" before?

[stuartthegrant]

Kinda Scarey!!!