From: "Rich Gauszka" 

I haven't checked but apparently they are still broadcasting according to this link

http://www.spynumbers.com/numbersDB/dbOnAirNextHour.php3

or you can order the CD for 10 hours of dull listening 

http://www.spynumbers.com/cdrom.html


"Mike N."  wrote in message
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> On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 22:24:41 -0500, "Rich Gauszka"

> wrote:
>
>>This week's episode of 'Lost' featured a 'Numbers shortwave radio station'
>>as part of the plot. I wonder if they are still useful or even exist
>>anymore?  
>
> ROFL!
>
>   ..Ever try to look for patterns in the numbers from one of those
> shortwave stations?   Back before the computer days, I spent a fair amount
> of time trying to decode some of these.   From what I remember, no one
> knew
> what the stations were; they broadcast in multiple languages.   It was
> probably some sort of spy reporting home in an encrypted transmission.
> If
> they didn't use some sort of dictionary encryption, I'll bet some of those
> old number sequences would yield to a computer and cryptanalysis.
>

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