On 2021-08-18, John Levine <
jo...@taugh.com> wrote:
> According to Ahem A Rivet's Shot <
ste...@eircom.net>:
>>On Wed, 18 Aug 2021 00:08:13 -0500
>>John Crane <
john_c...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> If any reader is old enough, you call the 'numbers stations' that were
>>> encountered on the HF radio bands. Some radio amateurs built HF
>>> direction finding gear, and triangulated the positions of a few of
>>> these. There were all coming from military bases in the US.
>>
>> Many governments ran numbers stations not just the US military,
>>they were (and are) encrypted news channels for spies.
>
> There are still a lot of them. This web site tells you more than you ever
> wanted to know about them:
>
>
https://www.numbers-stations.com/
>
Probably someone had the idea for them, and once the mney was allocated, forgot to stop it.