Numbers Station - E6 gives agent 690 the day off

E6 (AKA the English Man) broadcasts '690 690 690 00000' - this probably means no message for recipient 690 (assuming each callsign denotes a particular recipient).

E6 (as designated by the ENIGMA 2000 monitoring group) is believed to be a spy station operated by Russia, with many sister stations including the Russian language S6.

It's been some time since I heard E6 - and the previous time was a null message too. Notably, this current recording is on the day of the Russian presidential election (2/3/08), although recepient 690 doesn't appear to need any instructions. Frequency was near 6870 khz, AM.

For those who are confused as to what a numbers station is, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station

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• numbers
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• radio
• shortwave
• espionage
• spy
• code
• cryptography
• intelligence
• e6
• english
• man
• KGB
• FSB

[LCduT]

There are lots. I'm really surprised how much is out there. The amazing thing is most people just don't know about all this.

A bit of internet research can save you a lot of time. e.g. I found out about E25 and tried the two suggested freqs (6140 and 9450 khz) - to my surprise I could just about receive it.

I have no schedule for E6 though.

[hungoverjerk]

Mission: Complete

[obey9870]

the title of this made me lol after i read your decoding of it

[SirSmokeal0t]

@LCduT

Yeah, the funny thing is they want you to believe there are only a handful of number stations.

[betomiyazaki]

you're lucky , exist a lot of number stations in europe