{"id":63919,"date":"2026-03-12T23:20:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T22:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=63919"},"modified":"2026-04-01T23:00:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T21:00:24","slug":"an-enigmatic-radio-broadcast-in-persian-from-somewhere-in-western-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/03\/12\/an-enigmatic-radio-broadcast-in-persian-from-somewhere-in-western-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"An enigmatic radio broadcast in Persian from somewhere in Western Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the mysteries that has occupied radio amateurs in many countries for years are the so-called numbers stations.<\/p>\n

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The first stations of this type began to be received during the First World War<\/strong>, but undoubtedly the most famous of them all is UVB-76, known as \"The Buzzer,\" a Russian shortwave radio station broadcasting on the frequency of 4625 kHz, whose signals began to be received in the 1970s. Generally, this station emitted a buzzing sound, but sometimes numbers and words in Russian could be heard<\/strong>. Numbers stations are often associated with intelligence services and possible communications with spy networks.<\/p>\n

Today, Radio Free Europe\/Radio Liberty (RFE\/RL)<\/a> has released a video of a numbers station captured on February 28<\/strong>, at the start of Operation Epic Fury, the joint US-Israeli attack against the Islamist dictatorship of Iran. This shortwave station broadcasts the voice of a man repeating numbers in Persian<\/strong>, and according to amateur radio operators, it appears to be transmitting from somewhere in Western Europe.<\/strong> The video shows a map stretching from northwestern Italy to the Netherlands:<\/p>\n