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Four videos have been uploaded to YouTube showing the actual machine behind all the various East-German numbers stations and its operation.
This machine pronounces, in a monotone voice, a string of numbers used by intelligence agencies for one-way shortwave radio communication with their agents in enemy countries.
This machine belongs to a German collector who has a vast collection of various spy-gadgets. There were many machines of this particular model produced in East-Germany for usage within the DDR itself or other communist bloc nations, like the Soviet Union or Cuba.
In Germany (east or west) this machine was referred to as a "sprach/morse generator", which is German for speech/morse generator".
The speed by which this generator pronounces the numbers can be changed which is why sometimes there were seemingly different "German ladies" to be heard, where in fact it was the same voice but played at a different speed/pitch.
The printed circuit boards only contains the voice samples of the lady pronouncing numbers in either German or Spanish depending on which board was inserted.
One of the videos shows how a tape can be used that not only contained the actual message intended for the agent but also the number of times this message should be repeated by the machine.
The four videos show the Spanish voice behind the Atencion Numbers Station, the German Voice behind the East German numbers stations, how to operate the machine manually and how to operate the machine with tape.
They can be viewed at:
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=PeterStaal01#g/u
Thanks to Mike Barraclough for this item
So you want to listen to the spies?
http://www.southgatearc.org/articles/spies/spyradio.htm
Number Stations
http://www.southgatearc.org/enigma2000/introduction.htm
Source:
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/may2010/number_station_machines.htm
(Yimber Gaviria, Colombia)
This machine pronounces, in a monotone voice, a string of numbers used by intelligence agencies for one-way shortwave radio communication with their agents in enemy countries.
This machine belongs to a German collector who has a vast collection of various spy-gadgets. There were many machines of this particular model produced in East-Germany for usage within the DDR itself or other communist bloc nations, like the Soviet Union or Cuba.
In Germany (east or west) this machine was referred to as a "sprach/morse generator", which is German for speech/morse generator".
The speed by which this generator pronounces the numbers can be changed which is why sometimes there were seemingly different "German ladies" to be heard, where in fact it was the same voice but played at a different speed/pitch.
The printed circuit boards only contains the voice samples of the lady pronouncing numbers in either German or Spanish depending on which board was inserted.
One of the videos shows how a tape can be used that not only contained the actual message intended for the agent but also the number of times this message should be repeated by the machine.
The four videos show the Spanish voice behind the Atencion Numbers Station, the German Voice behind the East German numbers stations, how to operate the machine manually and how to operate the machine with tape.
They can be viewed at:
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=PeterStaal01#g/u
Thanks to Mike Barraclough for this item
So you want to listen to the spies?
http://www.southgatearc.org/articles/spies/spyradio.htm
Number Stations
http://www.southgatearc.org/enigma2000/introduction.htm
Source:
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/may2010/number_station_machines.htm
(Yimber Gaviria, Colombia)
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