[DK] Numbers station
 Numbers station er en form for kortbølge radiostation, som er karakteriseret ved unormale transmissioner, ofte sammensat af kunstigt genererede stemmer, som reciterer tal, ord, bogstaver samt melodier eller morsekode. De sendes på en lang række forskellige sprog og stemmerne er hovedsageligt kvinders, men nogle gange bruges også mande eller barne stemmer.
I 1960'erne berettede Time Magazine for første gang om Numbers Stations. De skrev at de første stationer dukkede op kort efter 2. verdenskrig. De efterlignede et format, som blev brugt til at udsende vejrdata under krigen. Det er en almen antagelse, at disse udsendelser transmitterede kodet beskeder til spioner. Dog har der ikke været nogle regeringer, som officielt har erkendt af benytte sig af såkaldte Numbers Stations. Og med ganske få undtagelser har lyttere af kortbølgeradio ikke fået response fra svar til disse Numbers Stations.
Den mest kendte Numbers Station var "Lincolnshire Poacher", som menes at have været drevet af den britiske Secret efterretningstjeneste.
USA anklagede, i 2001, "The Cuban Five" for at udføre spionage mod USA for Cuba. Det menes af denne gruppe havde modtaget og afkodet beskeder, som blev sendt fra cubanske Numbers Stations. Ligeledes i 2001 blev Ana Belen Montes, som var senior analytiker for US Defense Intelligence Agency, anholdt og sigtet for spionage. Anklageren påstod, at Montes var i stand til at kommunikere med den cubanske efterretningstjeneste via krypteret meddelelser, som blev transmitteret via "krypteret kortbølge transmissioner fra Cuba". I 2006 blev Carlos Alvarez og hans kone, Elsa, arresteret og anklaget for spionage. US District Court Florida erklærede, at "tiltalte var i stand til at modtage opgaver via kortbølgeradio transmissioner".
I juni 2003, blev Walter Kendall Myers tiltalt for at spionere for Cuba og ligeledes modtage og afkode meddelelser, som blev sendt fra Numbers Stations, som øjensynligt skulle være drevet af den cubanske efterretningstjeneste.
Det er blevet rapporteret, at USA selv har anvendt Numbers Stations til at sende kodet information til personer i andre lande. Det hævdes ligeledes, at State Department driver flere stationer, såsom KKN50 og KKN44, der anvendes til at udsende lignende krypteret "tal" beskeder, som man kender fra Numbers Stations.
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[UK] Numbers station
 A numbers station is a type of shortwave radio station characterized by unusual broadcasts, often created by artificially generated voices reciting streams of numbers, words, letters, tunes or Morse code. They are transmitted in a wide variety of languages and the voices are usually female, although sometimes men's or children's voices are used.
In the 1960s, Time magazine reported that the numbers stations first appeared shortly after World War II and were imitating a format that had been used to send weather data during that war. It is widely assumed that these broadcasts transmit covert messages to spies. This has not been officially acknowledged by any government that may operate a numbers station, and, with a few exceptions, no QSL responses have been received from numbers stations by shortwave listeners who sent reception reports to said stations, which is the expected behavior of a non-clandestine station.
The best known of the numbers stations was the "Lincolnshire Poacher", which is thought to have been run by the British Secret Intelligence Service.
In 2001, the United States tried the Cuban Five on the charge of spying for Cuba. That group had received and decoded messages that had been broadcast from Cuban numbers stations. Also in 2001, Ana Belen Montes, a senior US Defense Intelligence Agency analyst, was arrested and charged with espionage. The federal prosecutors alleged that Montes was able to communicate with the Cuban Intelligence Directorate through encoded messages, with instructions being received through "encrypted shortwave transmissions from Cuba". In 2006, Carlos Alvarez and his wife, Elsa, were arrested and charged with espionage. The U.S. District Court Florida stated that "defendants would receive assignments via shortwave radio transmissions".
In June 2003, the United States similarly charged Walter Kendall Myers with conspiracy to spy for Cuba and receiving and decoding messages broadcast from a numbers station operated by the Cuban Intelligence Directorate to further that conspiracy.
It has been reported that the United States used numbers stations to communicate encoded information to persons in other countries. There are also claims that State Department operated stations, such as KKN50 and KKN44, used to broadcast similar "numbers" messages or related traffic.
(Source: Wikipedia).
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