Seventy-eighth edition of the N&O column / Spooks newsletter

(Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 15:50:35 +0000)

Numbers stations web pages

First a reminder: Simon Mason in UK - I would say the "crack" of numbers station web page designers! :-) is searching for old numbers station recordings, which are missing on his website so far. Some entries are already there, but since August there is nothing more happened. So if you have old numbers station recordings, please send them to Simon's address. An instruction for the competition and something about the prise, you can also find on the "appeal" website at http://www.simonmason.karoo.net/appeal.htm

Also Tom H from PA, USA, who made a website with numbers, plans to create a historical numbers website, and he asks for contributors. So here's his "appeal":

"I've decided on adding to my existing website a numbers historical page with old recordings of numbers stations of the past. If anyone would like to contribute any recordings (any computer audio format is fine) please drop me an e-mail <swler007@yahoo.com> saying you would like to contribute, and I'd also like to know what recordings you could contribute.. if possible. I will give credit for all individuals who submit recordings. Due to my limited web space, I can only take a limited amount of audio recordings. My site mostly focuses on stations that are currently on the air, I'd like to focus on the past as well."

Currently, the URL is http://hf-underground.tk

Jason from Canada, called "SEISM", made several websites with numbers station recordings. You can find them at
http://www.archive.org/download/Seism.Guuik/
or at
http://www.geocities.com/jcampbell6662002

Online discography:
http://www.archive.org/audio/collection.php?collection=seism

News from #monitor IRC Chat

Chris Smolinski, the Spooks moderator, posted an update about utility radio chat channel #monitor:

"An update for those of you who don't have an irc client, you can access the #monitor channel through a web based chat, as well as a java based chat. Visit http://www.zirc.org/chat/ and pick your nickname, and type in #monitor for the channel name.

As many of you know, several of us folks log on to the IRC channel #monitor to exchange real time loggings and listening tips, as well as idle chat while conditions are poor ;-)

#monitor used to be hosted on the ircnet network which, as some of you who have tried to connect to #monitor have discovered, was not a very stable network, and also it was very difficult to get access to it if you are not in Europe. There had also been some problems with certain people mis-using the channel.

There now is a solution. #monitor has moved to the zirc network. The zirc network is very stable, and has mnay servers. I have never had a problem accessing it here in the US, and there is good access from Europe and the rest of the world as well.

If you log onto the channel, and there doesn't seem to be any activity, just introduce yourself. There's almost always a few people lurking. Any radio related discussions are welcome, from longwave thru medium wave, shortwave, and into VHF/UHF and satellites. Utility stations, pirates, SWBC stations, etc. If it's radio related, it's welcome on #monitor.

You can get a full list of zirc irc servers here:
http://www.zirc.org/servers/?n=n

You can use the irc.zirc.org server, it redirects your irc client to a working server.

You'll need an irc client of course to get onto irc. Do some web searching if you don't have one, there's lots of them out there for Windows, Mac, Linux, etc."

Thanks, Chris. I hope, many of us will use these new possibilities.