No matter where you are in the world, you can receive a shortwave radio signal.

Thus, those frequencies have certain very useful applications.

Among these are a type of broadcast called a numbers station.

It recite long strings of spoken digits with no obvious meaning.

What are they?

All explanations range from the mundane to the extraordinarily tinfoil-hatted.

Numbers stations are up right now, unskeptoid.

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Spy radio numbers stations.

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