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Old July 17th 10, 10:48 PM posted to rec.radio.shortwave
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Default NPR program on numbers stations

On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 16:43:27 -0400, dxAce
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On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 11:35:48 -0400, bpuharic wrote:

THis afternoon at around 5PM EDT, NPR, on its news show, will have a
program on shorwave numbers stations and spies.


Ah yes! Here's a classic:
http://www.spynumbers.com/YosemiteSam.html


Sam was not a numbers or spy station.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

I don't think it was proved one way or another what it was, but it had
the basics -maybe not in the usual order - 800ms data burst
transmission then the cartoon character voice.

Jim