Could These Creepy Short Wave Radio Messages End The World?
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Could these US military numbers stations trigger the end of the world? They're linked to US strategic command and pass coded messages to aircraft designed to carry out reconnaisance and deliver nuclear weapons to enemy targets.
They can be found on short wave radio at all hours of the day and can be picked up on a regular HF radio receiver. - Наука та технологія
It's amazing the amount of activity there is over shortwave radio when most people think it's obsolete.
I remember how busy the network became in the hours following the 911 attacks in 2001.
It was rather intense hearing all sorts of messages, wondering if WW3 was about to kick off.
Got very little sleep for about a week just glued to the HF radios and television.
Very informative video as always Lewis!
It was like that back around 79 when that Minuteman 2 blew up. It was the Cold War, the HF radio was constant and my family also thought WW3 was starting. Crazy then but interesting memories!
Great Video!
Ya'll Take Care and be safe, John
It's interesting that despite having the technology to use directional, encrypted satellite transmissions the US still runs a daily unencrypted global HF net.
I think there is data in the message stream disguised as a radio transmission.
Well the eams are encrypted.. you just hear the encryption in audible words.
Also there is the distinct advantage that as with all number stations. The coverage area is so large that the enemy doesn't know where to look for the planes. Directed signals would give an approximate location to search in.
@@fredo51 A tenner a month? That's extravagant for the MoD! Some civil servant will try and find a cheaper deal...
@@fredo51 Or now run by a cheap company based in..... China lol
@@fredo51 The UK still uses a similar system, but its teletype not voice. The US uses a similar (possibly the same?) system. It's based in Anthorn. This is all public info.
One time pad messages are un breakable, so encryption is not needed, you dont need hitech you just need reliable equipmemt. thats why numbers stations will never go away ....governments, industrial esponage agents, drug cartels, can and will rely on this simple, effective communication scheme. thanks for continuing to discover and share with us!
I forget what I did, but I remember screwing around with a 27MHz walkie talkie as a kid (again, I forget how I flubbed the frequency) and hearing one of these messages. Scared the hell out of me.
You probably adjusted the receive end to the 26mhz band. There used to be a point to point government frequency there around 26.200mhz.
It is a wonderfully nostalgic thing for me to watch these videos. My Dad is a radio ham and memories of these incomprehensible sounds coming from the spare bedroom are flooding back. I won't say I enjoyed it at the time but it's a very happy unexpected trip down memory lane.
Your channel inspired me to get an RTL-SDR kit, and start listening on shortwave radio. I know, there are a ton of webSDRs you can tune on with a browser, but it is a lot more fun to see what can I pick up form the airwaves around me with my own equipment, and learn the science on how can I get a better reception on a specific frequency.
What sort of antenna are you running with it?
@@ilovefreeski I'm using the bunny ears included with the kit. It's good for picking up things like aircraft communication, but it is pretty bad in the lower frequency range. I'm planning on making a wire antenna for it.
I've recieved images from weather satellites with my RTL-SDR, they are very interesting to play around with.
@@evmanbutts well, I'm an aviation enthusiast, so listening to aircraft comms is natural, as well as plotting flight paths by receiving transponder signals. 🙂
@@kemi242 May you should try a upconverter or such SDR like SDR play.
Only an better antenna will not help really, coz the receiption of such sticks in shortwave sucks..
In the U.S. the HF-GCS sounds much creepier than in this video because most of the time we can receive signals from multiple transmitters. The delay creates a sound kind of like the reverb in a cave.
I suspect the US still uses these earth stations in an era of satilite communication because military and spy satilites can be shot down or otherwise destroyed. Having some communication redundancy could be essential in a Global Emergency.
Their is alot of Rumors the reason why their are still so many old at&t Long Line Towers still up and with the old Horn Microwaves still on them Is bc they can still be used for a last form of communication if everything else was lost. What's even stranger some of the towers on Google maps have been blurred out not wanting to reveal their location 🤔.
You can also hear the HF-GCS on 4724, 6712, 6739, 8992, 11175, 13200, and 15016. Depending on the time of day, of course. The Air Force has also been known to use MARS 13927 and even RCAF 11232
Not 15 minutes after watching this I popped on to an SDR and heard a transmission on 4724, female voice. First numbers station I've heard live!
We sent and received such messages while I was an electronics technician in the Navy back in the 60's and 70's. I worked in "radio one."
Thanks!
The "SKYBIRD" call sign is featured in the opening scene of the 1983 film War Games, where the nuclear missile crew gets a message from "DROPKICK" to execute a launch order.
My parents took me to that film when I was just little, thinking it was a lighthearted comedy about teenage hacker hijinks. That opening scene haunted me for... some time. "Sir, we are at launch, TURN YOUR KEY"
@@ZGryphonme too! I was 7 or 8. That opening scene still freaks me out and I’m almost 50 lol. We sure grew up in a messed up time.
When I was a Staff Duty Officer overnight with
an NCO, at a US SAC base, next to the Comm Center. If we did
receive a Jop Rap Jiffy message from the
Center, we were told to notify the Commander.
JOPREP JIFFY
@@Polo-Hat Thanks, sorry 😞 for the misspelling.
I've been teaching my scout troop basic radio communication procedures in addition to sending and receiving coded messages. They get a kick out of it and love sending reports back and forth to each other.
I don't know how you keep on managing to find more interesting subjects to make videos about, but you outdo yourself every time.
Yet another well researched, well done video. Now I know where and what to listen for. Keep up the brilliant work!
Much appreciated!
4:39 Remember "WarGames" in the beginning? "Skybird, Skybird. This is Dropkick" over the speaker in the missile launch room underground.
Going to tune each of those frequency's in turn and monitor each one for a whole day.
Very interesting.
Seems HF will never die.
Some frequencies are nightime or daytime frequencies. Others are used when band conditions become unfavorable/favorable. When I first started in HAM radio decades ago, I enjoyed logging in 3 letter beacons from around the world. This was one way to determine band openings so I could make contacts on authorized bands as per my license. SWL monitoring is very fun, for me anyways. Always enjoyed listening to maritime communications and international aircraft HF.
@@tonyv8925 Hi Tony....are there any maritime comms to be heard on HF/MF these days.
Used to listen to fishing boats around 2mhz many years ago.
Same with HF ATC....Shanwick are still there but not as we knew it before sat comms.
Well done video. Thanks. You have given me the itch to start exploring.I received my technician-level Amateur Radio license a few months ago. Will take the General license exam in a month or so. I have spent the past 15 years developing DSP modem source code and crypto on FPGAs/DSP CPUs used in the modems of HF, VHF, UHF and Satcom military tactical radios. After all of those years, I have never had a radio of my own to listen in on this good stuff. I am on the waiting for an Elecraft PK3 QRP radio to be delivered (it's still backordered for another 4 weeks).I chose a small radio for numerous reasons - including my wife not noticing it do to it's size 🙂 I cannot wait to string a larger Home Owners Association-legal antenna and actually begin to listen to these type of sites. On a side note the Boeing E-4 you have at the end of your video is parked 4 miles from my home rather frequently at Patrick Space Force Base.
KX3 is a great set, very quiet receiver, enjoy.
Glad to hear that. Waiting list is about 8 weeks. I am half way into the wait.
@@American-Motors-Corporation I understand your views believe me !!! But In my line of work, I cannot do anything that might cause me to fail the next polygraph test or break the law at the moment due to fear of losing my security clearance. However, if (more like when we become a lawless, collapsed nation or a completely divided nation) - your actions and my actions will be very similar. But for now I will play their games. If for nothing more than it is good for the growth of the hobby. Cheers.
I'm still trying to figure out who is paying the government to be a Ham???
Now THIS is super interesting!! Spotting those elusive HF activities are so hard when just tuning around aimlessly. These kind of videos are SO very helpful! Now my IC-705 got some new food to chew on =)
I can sleep at night because “ol’ Ripper wouldn’t give the go code unless them Ruskies had already clobbered Washington.”
Lewis, you should suggest watching Dr Strangelove as background material for stations like these.
Fascinating stuff - thanks for posting this. I'm new to shortwave but am wanting to get a radio to listen in. This is my go to channel for learning!
Thanks for the info. I've stumbled across these in the past while 'spinning the dial', and found SOME information online about them. But, this was good information.
This was an excellent and fascinating video! It makes me want to get a shortwave receiver and start listening in on "the action." (PS - your slide shows are always excellent, and I am glad you don't always feel the need to put in the disclaimer about the antennas shown not being associated with the topic. Cheers!)
Another excellent and informative video Lewis...always been interested in Numbers Station..
Listened to the stations when I was posted to Germany in the 70s.
Station clear.....
I always found these to sound eerie, due to the slight echo, and the sound in the background.
And some of those call signs are hilarious.
Skybird, this is Dropkick, with a red dash alpha message in two parts
Break Break …Red dash alpha
Love that movie
Mr Potato Head ! Backdoors are not secret!
you put a lot of work into these videos , thanks
Glad you like them!
The RAF had a similar set up for its Vulcans and Victor aircraft in the 70s and 80s . I think the callsign was Chief Bobcat often slurred by the aircrew to Cheeze Bobcat . Vulcans had a distinct whistle on their transmissions (inverter noise ?) I think the freq used was around 6.7 MHz
6733MHz DHFCS (Defence High Frequency Communication System) is the UK equivalent of HFGCS.
Excellent Lewis love this strange broadcasts cheers for the video 👍
This is terrific research, Lewis, and a brilliant presentation! It will be fun to listen out for some of these broadcasts. Cheers!
Thanks as always from across the pond.
Very interesting video, thanks! Those first transmissions sounded extremely errie. Almost like an air raid siren in the background.
Noise cancelling microphones should be mandatory! 😂 The background noise is distracting from the message.
I discovered 11175 literally this morning and heard a few eams today. Crazy that you then drop a video on it. I'm pleased I found it first.
Today's callsign was "outboard"
Another great episode. Thanks!
MPA would be the Mount Pleasant Complex on the Falkland Islands.
EAM's have changed alot since I was a MCCC on a Titan II launch crew.
Just loaded up my SDR here after watching this video and Heard a test in test out within minutes. Can't wait to hear more. - Might you know of a good resource for a database of all these frequencies and others of note ?
Your video's are always interesting and well researched.
Glad you like them!
Fascinating. So they do not really transmit messages, they probably send just a code to refer to a certain part in the 'codebook' the receiver already has in posession? Would love to see the extent and limits of what can be found in such 'codebook'. How far can you think ahead, and what if actuality requires something other then what you have prepared for...
Good point!
Love listening to these. Heard a pilot asking for comms in the green. Whatever that means. Encryption?
Lewis good work
fascinating...pretty sure i heard one of these messages a couple years ago
I am pretty sure that I've heard the one at 2:21 on my SDR, in Carrollton, MO, before. I wonder if it's possibly coming from the place in Nebraska? If you haven't already, you should also possibly do a video about shortwave pirate radio stations in the US.
Cheers man, great video!
Glad you liked it!
That was a very interesting video. You got the blood flowing, now I have to go to the radio shack and fire up my equipment. Dam! That was interesting..73 Leo k
I used to hear EAMs on my DX160 in the late 70s early 80s. Though, as with all of these strange broadcasts I had no idea what they were. The signal was easily 5-9 in Cheshire.
You can also hear these EAM's on UHF on 311.000 as well, as they are trasmitted from the E6 or E3 airborne birds. Many launch from Tinker AFB, OK.
Excellent video, thank you.
Glad you liked it!
Here in the North-East US, I've heard Andrews quite often on 11175, even at night depending on geo conditions. There was something eerily cool about that echo! :)
gonna monitor the frequencies off a kiwi sdr...very cool
Good stuff well done.
I stumbled across a few of these a year or so ago, just VFOing all the bands.
Fascinating
Another very interesting video. I used to listen to the 11175 regularly. One thing I have noticed though in some of the messages you can hear what sounds like a siren type noise. Not sure what it is, but it sounds really spooky. Any ideas?
Remember getting them on UHF a few year’s ago when a certain plane crossed uk airspace, they were approximately 400 miles away but they were probably burning them out at a higher power.
I've had my Icom R30 for a year. I love it. I get many EMA's. A few on my channel.
In the 80's I remember listening & one night this was hoaching with traffic & there were additional weather broadcasts popping up everywhere & we wondered what the hell was going on... It was only the next day on the news that we found out the US f-111's had been hitting Tripoli.
Years ago I heard flight operations in the 2 mhz band on an aircraft carrier. Chatter was in English, but not sure of nationality.
To whomever posted about the parabolic antenna - that's the logo for the Andrew Corporation.
I always thought that echo was a D104 microphone and CB with an echo board 😆
Couple of questions. First, when the transmissions are happening, why is there a siren like sound in the background? Second of all, I noticed some DTMF tones transmitting, in this case it sounds like pound the number nine. Is that some sort of Roger beep that they’re using, or is that something that they have to put in there at the end?
Creepy stuff!
Fun Fact: SkyKing was the nickname given to Richard Russell of the infamous Air Horizon Q400 incident.
Sky King was an American radio and television series in the 40s and 50s. Grant Kirby as the modern day rancher and pilot. Gloria Winters as his niece, Penny and Song Bird as the aircraft. They battled outlaws and rustlers and flew around the West. As a sign of the culture Sky King was a single and Penny was his niece. Television only showed single dad's and uncles unlike today where single moms are prevalent.
Here are some additional HF frequencies I have heard traffic on...13.200/6.739/6.712/10.780/20.390/6.697/channel AA--14.362 (USB)/channel AB--11.191(USB). Not sure if there is still traffic on these frequencies, I have not been active since COVID.
CS_1: Authenticate Golf November.,
CS_2: I authenticate Bravo.
CS_1: Roger. Send.
I believe that authentication method uses the NATO tactical codes which are used to encode the digits [0-9] mainly grid references and for authentication.
IIRC each day has four pages with a different code for each quarter of the day.
Your summary about not having a global command of nuclear-armed bombers in the sky 24/7 got me thinking.. about submarines. As I understand it, in the UK at least, our strategic nuclear deterrent is provided 24/7 by at least 2 Trident nuclear submarines. We no longer fly the V-bombers which were originally commissioned to provide round-the-clock air bomber coverage.
I understand they use some very long wave frequencies to communicate with submarines, but I've never seen anyone actually receive one of these messages, nor seen or heard any description of the content of these messages. I presume they would be somewhat similar to GCS?
I’m sure the messages are VLF / SHF out of Northwood. Highly encrypted. You might hear some data but you’ll never in a 100 years decrypt it
Around the 100khz range, or even lower. There is a submarine antenna located in upper Michigan that covers miles. My HF radio does not go that low in frequency so I would never hear it anyways.
I maintained this system at Incirlik AB, TU.
That’s the funny thing; a lot of what they were sending I had no idea, a lot of it was done remotely. Scope Signal 3. My job was just to make sure it transmitted. 😅. I didn’t even know who Skybird was until you explained it. They didn’t tell us crap. 😂. I used to here them call Skybird when I was down launch control facilities. 😮 Oh, its the whole network :).
You think they would train us to know our own system but now they don’t . You’re just a maintainer you don’t need to know what’s happening operationally. Even if they did present the information to us, they did it in the most boring fashion ever, so that you had no possible way of remembering it. We present information in a way that will make you forget things that you already knew. 😂
just a little bit of info one of the stealth bombers either the b2 or f117 (i think it maybe the f117) will fly about america under one call sign (yes they are still flying iv been told they are used as test beds for new coms / nav equipment etc) but when they fly back into nellis or rather area51 air space there call sign changes and they are welcomed home this used to be the only aircraft that did this whether its now standard at area51 i dont know.
This is a bit like numbers stations took to another level.
Excellent.
Many thanks!
i wonder if those number stations have increased activity since the RU-UA war.
Hope its not this year.been promised a doctors appointment??? Have a good weekend lewis.
Always thought it was cool how you can hear the subtle echo of long path HF propagation on EAMs. And though they're very boring and routine, there is something undeniably creepy about them.
Part of it's in the delivery of some of the radio operators. They sound like someone pumped a dose of benzedrine into them.
Awesome break down of this system as I always had trouble understanding what was going on here. I see you have the HAARP array in the thumbnail. Do you think you could do a break down on that facility sometime? It’s my favorite antenna array in the world and activities from HAARP have been picking up as of late.
There used to be this antenna array at the nearby military base...thousands of these antennas that looked like umbrellas covering tens of acres. I wonder if that was a HAARP array?
@@tonyv8925
Uhhh maybe if it was I have no clue about it’s existence if it was an ionospheric heater. What base was it?
I'm curious. I only know of One/The HAARP facility in Alaska.
Ya'll Take Care and be safe, John
@@JohnDoe-pv2iu
People like to throw the word “HAARP” around for other locations that do similar things (or are completely unrelated). Not sure why.
Lewis, was there a website where you found those slides you used in the video, or did you make them yourself?
Hey Anthony I made them
"and I say that loosely"
Why do some of the EAM announcers sound like they're on thorazine?
General Ripper would be proud.
Why are frequencies like the first radio transmission shown not encrypted?
Why do they need to be encrypted? They use a code system that only the sender and receiver can decode
not only would these EAM's be to planes, but also perhaps all Missile Silos, Ships and Subs.. I believe that what they had up in Alaska, HAARP, was a part of that with the subs for awhile.. I think they found another way to do it outside of that Station..
What is the noise in the background of EAMs?
A box fan in the radio room 😄
Super Video. Really enjoy the Milcom Freqs and Monitoring these Freqs. Thank You****
Many thanks!
The HFGCS probably sends one time pad encrypted messages.
I found this one before as well, it was the female variant, it's funny that you always make a video on stuff after i find it, confused of what it is
RAF Croughton being the UK leg of this network where the motorcyclist Harry Dunn was unfortunately killed.
Except, none of the other 'place names' on the list are anything like as specific as "RAF Croughton" in the UK (or any other global AAFB - except perhaps 'Andrews Global) ). Too much of a co-incidence. There was always US concern that the Brits might actually seize the CIA imposter "Anne Sacoolas" in the UK - and that her bogus 'diplomatic immunity' allegedly acquired from her 'husband' (and probabaly equally fake) wouldn't actually protect her from killing Harrry Dunne. I'm sure the "USAF" thought they were remarkably clever in telling the local cops a pack of lies at the time about Sacoolas' 'protection' from gross negligence manslaughter and other general criminality but, you can bet that next time, the most junior AC2 right up to the USAF 4 star AAFB Base Commander is gonna cool his/her heels in a British jail until his bona fides have been OK'd at the highest level.
Sacoolas still stands a fair chance of spending time in a British jail - for jumping bail (she received a suspended a jail sentence - but, with her globally valid manslaughter conviction which hasn't (and cannot now) appeal, but, in addition, her chance of getting any sort of work/CIA visa, work permit etc in anywhere other than the most suicidially dangerous hell holes of the world is pretty much zero. Enjoy, Pakistan, Anne, enjoy, El Salvador. Perhaps learn to drive properly next time...
I've used military radio's. And when you hear how bad their audio is, you'll understand why I never trust anything advertised as 'military grade'. A Yaesu $20 hand mic sounds better than anything 'military grade'.
LOL. Please….
FGD 135 - wing attack plan R. R for Romeo.
Set your crm to the code 'OPE'😄😄😄
The US continues to use it uninterrupted because of the strong possibility that satellite warfare will cause a cascade effect of debris which will wipe out vast swaths of satellite communications.
2:21 sounds like a teenager tryna be spooky
Sounds more like a spooky teenager trying to be succinct and lucid for once, and coming up short.
11175.... Mainsail
How come in this day & age they don't at least use scramblers??
They don’t need to. The method used ensure nobody but the sender and receiver can decode the message
Classic Dr.Strangelove. .....
POE on the CRM?
I should have scrolled farther down through the comments, because I insipidly posted a similar remark.
@@QuadMochaMatti great minds !
Haha just watched it the other day and was thinking the same thing. Amazing how accurate those bomber scenes were considering a lot of that info was still highly classified.
Bubba can't train Pigeon delivery and sell it to the military
so we can understand why his sort call radio use too scary.
no bombers, just many many missles still very capable of ending the world
SKYKING
SKYKING
DO NOT ANSWER
forget the comment from the other day this is the earliest ive been 3 minutes hii
What War?