The Lincolnshire Poacher...and other Numbers Stations

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You know..."Numbers Stations" and the like: shortwave broadcasts of machine-generated voices intoning number sequences which are in all likelihood coded messages for spies and/or drug smugglers.

― Michael Daddino, Saturday, 6 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

So I'm listening to The Conet Project CDs and I think, arrrgh, what purpose is served by making these broadcasts so psychotically creepy? Why do the governments of the world insist going about the spying business with all the glamor and panache of a serial killer?

― Michael Daddino, Saturday, 6 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

What about those stations that just repeat deserts over and over - chocloate fluff, brownie, banana cream pie, eclair

― mike hanle y, Saturday, 6 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I like this sort of thing. Mysterious voices over the ether, espionage - I would quite like to have been a spy - just a lowly operative nothing glamourous, electric fence-ringed secret installations in forests in Germany (nothing to do with transmissions but Foulness Island interests me as does any top secret/forbidden place), also the sort of people who devote their lives to documenting the minutiae of this stuff (here's an example). All these things fascinate me.

― David, Saturday, 6 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Like Kraftwerk?

― mike hanle y, Sunday, 7 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Like Kraftwerk?

Kind of. See this poem. Ignore the jpg image and the horrendous-sounding music it refers to.

― David, Sunday, 7 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It may help to read it with the same accentation used at the station of the same name: paPA noVEMber.

― Michael Daddino, Sunday, 7 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

That webpage devoted to the minutiae of 'The Buzzer' (UVB 76) - the first link I gave - has gone offline for some reason. Here's a cached version from google.

― David, Sunday, 7 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

six months pass...

Does anyone have a copy of the Conet Project on CDs?

― Terry Mercer, Tuesday, 4 February 2003 03:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Yup. Picked up the Conet CDs the instant I saw them (which was at Terrastock 2 oddly enough). Terrific collection, the Numbers Racket CD-ROM is worth seeking out too.

― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 06:12 (twenty-two years ago)

five years pass...

As per today's Boing Boing, they are also here (after some clicking):
http://irdial.hyperreal.org/the%20conet%20project/

The article:
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/09/02/conet-project-free-o.html

pretty cool stuff

― Chelvis, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 20:07 (seventeen years ago)

i have some Lincolnshire Poacher in my fridge. it's kinda rindy tho.

― gabbneb, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 20:08 (seventeen years ago)

'English Lady Jammed' on disk three is pretty cool
http://irdial.hyperreal.org/the%20conet%20project/disc%203/tcp_d3_4_english_lady_jammed_irdial.mp3

― Chelvis, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 20:15 (seventeen years ago)

four years pass...

The Conet Project returns - this time with a 5th CD of all new stuff: http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/tcp1111

― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 2 November 2012 02:05 (thirteen years ago)

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