Number Stations Revealed - Part 1 of 6: The Spanish Voice Behind The "Atencion" Numbers Station

Here's the actual machine behind the numbers station.
This is from a recording I made in May, somewhere in Germany.

This video is part of the following playlist on this channel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xkc_Ig87TnM&feature=PlayList&p=735C68C...

This machine pronounces, in a monotone voice, a string of numbers used by intelligence agencies for one-way shortwave radio communication with their agents in enemy countries.
This machine belongs to a German collector who has a vast collection of various spy-gadgets.
There were many machines of this particular model produced in East-Germany for usage within the DDR itself or other communist bloc nations, like the Soviet Union or Cuba.

The voice for this machine comes from a swapable printed circuit board with EEPROM's on it.
In this video another board was inserted, which contained the Spanish voice samples, in the so-called Speech/morse generator, or "Sprach/morse generator", as it was referred to in Germany.
These EEPROMS enabled the machine to pronounce the numbers and other characters in Spanish or other languages depending on which card was inserted on the back of the machine.

Although this particular machine does pronounces "Atencion" it is however, in my opinion, mostlikely not the same female voice from the wellknown Cuban numbers station V2/V2a, by the sound of it.

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[cekart]

well it looks like a demonstration but that is not the actual voice of the lady... i have heard the transmissions live and the voice is different. That voice sounds south-american, and the voice on the station sounds 100% cuban.... just wanted to point that out... but nice video tho

[PeterStaal01]

@cekart

You are correct that this is not the same voice anymore as you hear it nowadays.

However, the circuit board and the voice samples it contains were definitely made for Cuba.

Bear in mind that this machine originated from the 80's.

I couldn't tell you how Cuban number station(s) are currently being operated.

[ITSbigwillystyle]

MUST KILL PRESIDENT.....

[maxchs]

Huh? what happen? who am I?

[limon276]

Some many years ago, in Maracay, Venezuela I heard this signal at 3:00 AM (11:00PM, UTC) but I don't remember in what frequency. When the transmission ended, I heard the message "Final, final, final". The last thing I suspected was that the transmission came from Cuba.

[torch39]

Very Nice!  Would love to have one.

[TheBrutusbraganza]

How about the decoded message itd be cool to know what that was about

[picaticatara]

OCCUPY THE BORDER

[cekart]

@PeterStaal01 you are quite right in that

[irvykinneas]

@JBLAZE999 indeed it is, thank you

[JBLAZE999]

@irvykinneas search for numbers stations HF, very interesting.

[irvykinneas]

wats the point