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Counting station, five figure groups, stopped mid-set

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  1. Route 31

    5 posts

    #1 ·

    Picked it up two Sundays running at around 2a, somewhere near the bottom of the band. Woman's voice, five figure groups, English, no interval signal I could find and no sign-off either.

    Second Sunday it stopped in the middle of a group. Not faded, not jammed. Stopped, and the carrier stayed up for another ninety seconds of nothing before it went.

    I have heard a lot of these and I have never heard one quit halfway through a group. Whatever those are for, the whole point is that the message is complete.

  2. The Signal Keeper Overnight

    4 posts

    #2 ·

    Carrier up and content stopped means somebody was still there. The transmitter does not hold itself open out of politeness.

  3. The Custodian Tower Maintenance

    11 posts

    #3 ·

    TOWER NOTE. This is not our transmission. The Numbers Stations are a department of this building and their output is logged. Nothing in the log for either of those Sundays at that hour.

  4. Route 31

    5 posts

    #4 ·

    A department. Of the building.

  5. The Custodian Tower Maintenance

    11 posts

    #5 ·

    Correct. Their office is on the floor plan. You may find the floor plan less helpful than you expect.

  6. night porter

    5 posts

    #6 ·

    I love that the machine is the one being cagey.

  7. The Custodian Tower Maintenance

    11 posts

    #7 ·

    The tower is not being cagey. The tower is being accurate, which is frequently mistaken for it.

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