Numbers Station??

Question

Did anyone hear about a numbers station? It's when suddenly your radio gets interrupted my transmission and suddenly a mechanically voice starts constantly reading numbers in four intervals. No one knows the origin of these transmissions. Does anyone have any explanation?

Some samples:
http://irdial.hyperreal.org/the%20conet%20project/disc%202/

Answer 1

Quite likely that this is a coded transmission. I listened to the Chinese version of the transmission and found that the pronunciation of the numbers are normally used by the military/police. The normal chinese would pronounce zero as "ling" but in the recorded transmission, it pronounced as "dong" (which the military/police would use).

I would suspect that the messages you intercepted were from satelites.

Answer 2

I actually have read quite a bit about this. It turns out to really be a true thing.
But it happens on the shortwave radios a lot more than on regular radio stations.
It turns out that most of the broadcasting is done from various embasies throughout the world and that it is some sort of coded transmission. England actually went so far as to verify that they do use this sometimes to pass information, but they wouldn't elaborate.

Answer 3

I'm in the UK and have heard this on CB radio, passing through Cambridgeshire. It sounded Russian or similar and was a repeated sentence(female voice)lasting at least thirty minutes(I passed out of range by that time).
I saw a site pertaining to this phenomenon and read a little about it. It does seem to be just coded messages. As to their purpose, well there are still Spies in this world, believe it or not!

:)

Answer 4

I've heard of numbers stations, sometimes happens when you're browsing on shortwave. Never heard of them on FM or AM. I wouldn't go so far as to say that no one knows the origin of these transmissions, because the transmitter knows, and the ones they're intended for may know. It would be more accurate to say, there's no official explanatoin of them. Speculatoins abound. Ranging from weather bouys, to espionage, to UFO's. I've heard them a few times and they make my hair stand on end. Somethign about them is really unnerving.