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Red Herring - Dead Drop Mystery Cache

Hidden : 3/12/2017
Difficulty:
4 out of 5
Terrain:
3 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

A numbers station is a shortwave radio station characterised by the broadcast of formatted numbers, which are suspected to be addressed to intelligence officers operating in foreign countries.

A contact, Red Herring is believed to have gone rogue has acquired a top secret list of GC Agents which has been hidden at a dead drop, somewhere in the Helderberg Nature Reserve.

Red Herring has transmitted the following number sequence via a Numbers Station, which has been received and written down by Special Agent P&Q who is convinced these numbers contains the co-ordinates of the dead drop.

 

58956 64957 63124 93337 49018 85601

20878 03506 16557 11117 18287 19431

27119 75018 70721 47976 70629 77007

02911 63840 27467 85886 37538 50061

97806 72355 79458 29805 82043 58611

27081 59193 78327 31382 77045 62871

 

Your mission, should you accept, is to decode the number sequence, locate the dead drop and report back your findings to your Case Officer, Special Agent P&Q.

Good Luck 

 

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Fgnl Fnsr

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)