Greetings fellow cacher,
You may have intercepted the previous original transmission from this numbers station and found its final stash, very few operatives did so. That transmission broadcast for exactly a year and played approximately 105,120 times. A quick Google search will tell you that there are no physical known or official numbers stations in the entire state, here’s to the unknown. As is the nature of our mission, we must remain in constant flux to throw off and outwit the vigilant counter operatives that wish our demise and the failure of our task. 365 days after the first transmission, a new broadcast and trove have been engineered. In 365 more days, a new transmission and final stage will replace the one here before you.
While others had baking or viral dance videos or learning new instruments, my hyper fixation rabbit hole during the pandemonium was numbers stations. A curiosity fueled by Rousseau from Lost, secret transmissions at the Startcourt Mall, and a vlog by geocacher Skimbosh, I always wanted my own numbers station. By always, I mean 6 years. After years of research and learning and discovery and being a nerd in general, my dream finally came true for the super low price of 100 dollars.
Enough annoying nerd drivel. Your success remains dependent on your stealth, prowess, problem solving, ingenuity, and loyalty our common objective. The stakes are high, time is of the essence. We've come this far, too far to quit now. The mission is clear, it is as it has always been, make the find. We can only trust each other, our methods must be more sly, more stealth, and ever-changing. Knitting coded patterns in sweaters, codes in box car sequences, and digital encryption have been successful in the past. We must now be more careful and vigilant. We must now rely on the obvious and the simple to continue the journey to our shared goals. We must find genius and cleverness in the rudimentary. We must, as with our codes and hides and finds, remain hidden in the constants of every day. The tenability and the future of our shared mission depends on your success and discretion. Once you reach the posted coordinates, you don't have to leave your cover vehicle to intercept the communique. In 99% of cases, all of the tools that you need to access the message are there. You must physically visit the posted coordinates. The nature of the cache does not allow for long-distance operatives to solve this geocache ahead of time. There was a primitive transmission at this locale, previously. Our agency’s funding and the needs of our mission have made it so the dispatch has evolved to be more savvy and is now available at all times. There are a total of three different types of hides here. Three of them, including this one, are virtual beacons and two have at least one shared attribute. We continue to live and die by the rule of 528. The final stock is jam-packed full of swag, trinkets, itty bitty ditties, our coveted log journal, and unactivated tokens to celebrate your fruitful journey. I hope to see you down the road dearest fellow cacher and I’m eager to read of the successes of your mission. Special thanks to Li’l Bit A, Li’l Bit P, Hach, Doc, and Scarecrow for lending their talents to this transmission. Extreme gratitude to special agent EWB for the genesis of the idea for the execution of the original broadcast and to special agent Skimbosh for educating me about these specific types of transmissions to obsess about in the first place. As always I encourage you to be safe and to make good, wise choices.
Yours eternally in the quest for the find, -RCT
The 10kGeocaches/Skimbosh vlog that started it all for me
https://youtu.be/cGgS-0GhCAE?si=G188v5TBJawUtuz5
A great and informative podcast about numbers stations
https://youtu.be/Fv-IMcnL3OU?si=rDdTv8xlpIH_JEbl
The first part of The Conet Project, a thorough collection of old numbers stations transmissions
https://youtu.be/45Y3cHlFUKw?si=_6BOmoE04X4WNtAu
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