Thanks Guys, this one is solved !! I love the internet !!!! Olympia Radio it
is.....

Tom

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Tom Montgomery wrote:

Can barely copy this station. Female announcer stating this is Libya
Radio ??? Then she read a short series of numbers. Anybody know what
this is ?


Actually it sounds like she is saying "olivia radio" or "olibya radio"
or something phonetically similar.



OK, then that would be Olympia Radio out of Greece, formerly known as
Athens
Radio.


Indeed, that fits what I am hearing. So the language is Greek...


And a web search turns up may hits regarding its function:

“It's an ordinary maritime station with an English and Greek
identification loop. The 4 digit numbers are channel designators
like 1601 (1. channel on 16 MHz: ship 16360, sho 17242).
No beacon, no number station, no mysteries at all.”

Regards,

Michael

On Jun 18, 7:42 pm, "Tom Montgomery" wrote:
Thanks Guys, this one is solved !! I love the internet !!!! Olympia Radio it
is.....

Tom

"msg" wrote in message

...

msg wrote:
dxAce wrote:

msg wrote:

Tom Montgomery wrote:

Can barely copy this station. Female announcer stating this is Libya
Radio ??? Then she read a short series of numbers. Anybody know what
this is ?

Actually it sounds like she is saying "olivia radio" or "olibya radio"
or something phonetically similar.

OK, then that would be Olympia Radio out of Greece, formerly known as
Athens
Radio.

Indeed, that fits what I am hearing. So the language is Greek...

And a web search turns up may hits regarding its function:

"It's an ordinary maritime station with an English and Greek
identification loop. The 4 digit numbers are channel designators
like 1601 (1. channel on 16 MHz: ship 16360, sho 17242).
No beacon, no number station, no mysteries at all."

Regards,

Michael


Olympia Radio is frequently misheard. I've never heard it, but
apparently the Greek accent is difficult for Americans. The "mystery
language" also leaves Americans scratching their heads. In fact, Greek
is a language unlike any other, as can be determined by looking at the
Indo-European language trees found in most professional grade
hardcover dictionaries. Greek apparently came right out of the
protolanguage spoken by the root tribe of Indo-Europeans, the original
Caucasians, and has passed down through 10,000 years with some
modifications but without losing its "otherness". Greek also has its
own alphabet, with about 20 letters, that has changed little from the
days of classical Athens.

Linguistically, the Greeks are a big mystery, and so is the root of
their culture. There was apparently an age of great kings and
kingdoms, as celebrated in the Iliad, then a mysterious blank that
left no written records, called the dark age of Greece. Once written
records show up again, the polis (city-state) system had already been
established. The mysterious gap has left historians of the ancient
world scratching their heads in befuddlement-there seems to be nothing
between the ancient kingdoms and the city-states that left anything
behind.

Since the great migrations from Eastern Europe to America during the
Gilded Age yielded little in the way of Greeks, Greece is not on the
board for Americans who can trace their ancestries back to the massive
numbers of Czechs and Poles who arrived. (My great grandmother was
pure Czech.) There's a small Greek American community in NYC, and
individual Greek families scattered around. I've met maybe two or
three Greek Americans in my whole life, and I live in California. I've
met more Jews than I have Greeks.