A New Article on Numbers Stations

Over at QST (the ARRL's monthly magazine covering all things amateur radio), this month's freebee article is all about numbers stations.  You can download the pdf from there, but first let me link you through the SWLing Post site, since they're the ones who first pointed it out.

Nothing astonishing, but it is an interesting background article.  The title – "Decoding Numbers Stations" – is a little bit, if forgivably, misleading.  Nobody's decoding these things, at least not without the proper decoding gear, but the article does a good job of demystifying the topic.

Numbers stations have been mentioned here at the 'swamp a couple of times, but in no great depth, mostly in reference to a mediocre movie.  Use the search bar.  Also, there's a pretty good article over at Wikipedia.