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Shortwave · 11.011 MHz

Somebody is reading numbers to nobody.

For decades, shortwave radio has carried voices that read strings of numbers into the static. Governments have never fully explained them. This one belongs to the Archive.

35791113

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On the record

1
Numbers stations have broadcast spoken number groups on shortwave since at least the Cold War; recordings were compiled in The Conet Project (1997).Akin Fernandez, The Conet Project: Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations (Irdial-Discs, 1997).
2
The Russian station UVB-76, nicknamed "The Buzzer," has broadcast a repeating tone since at least the 1980s, occasionally interrupted by spoken words."UVB-76," Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UVB-76
3
Courts have convicted spies who received instructions via numbers stations, including members of the Cuban "Wasp Network" in 2001.United States v. Campa et al., U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida (2001).