I'm wondering if anyone else on TFP has ever heard of these stations. They transmit from all over the world, and do not officially exist in FCC records, or the records of other countries' licensing authorities.
Here's a short description from Simon Mason's site that addresses these stations.
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If you have ever tuned a radio beyond the medium wave band, you will have entered the weird and wonderful world of short wave. You will hear many strange transmissions, such as ranting American evangelists warning you that the end of the world is near, people trying to sell you gold and silver before the economic collapse (SHOULD HAVE BOUGHT SOME!), jammed clandestine radio broadcasts from Iraq, aircraft flying over the Arctic, barely understandable Scots fisherman on their trawlers and many other bizarre sounds.
Perhaps the strangest of all transmissions are the “Spy Number Stations”. http://www.simonmason.karoo.net/page9.html These do not officially exist and no one has ever explained what the purpose of these stations is. They consist of the most boring content imaginable. A strange non-human voice reading out series of numbers, sometimes accompanied by weird tones or odd melodies.
Some Americans even use them as background music at intellectual dinner parties and they even turned up in the film "Vanilla Sky". On this site you can read my book on this subject; “Secret Signals”, as well as explore articles and sound clips from the height of the Cold War era.
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Here's a page on a particularly notorious station, "Papa November." The sound clips are creepy to say the least, and if you're the type to be freaked out by reading ghost stories at night (like me,) I'd reccommend waiting until sometime during the day to listen to them.
I don't really have much to say on the subject, it's obviously a collection of stations transmitting encrypted secret information worldwide, and it's something I wanted to share with everyone.