WFMU: Spin Age Blasters with Creamo Coyl: Playlist from January 1, 2017

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	3:04am future transport: yhppay enw eray-+)=)=))0_(0=_(=(_
	3:07am joeray: She was just seventeen...
	3:17am future transport: THIS is what public image should have sounded like +_"':-)0=_0ooo-
	3:20am greysquad: that's right kid's ... ludes and gin and tonics don't mix very well...
	3:21am greysquad: unless of course you want to be on a machine...
	3:23am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...well...I do kinda wanna stream marginal music 24/7...
	3:31am future transport: marginal [mahr-juh-nl] Spell Syllables Examples Word Origin See more synonyms on Thesaurus.com adjective 1. pertaining to a margin. 2. situated on the border or edge. 3. at the outer or lower limits; minimal for requirements; almost insufficient: marginal subsistence; marginal ability. 4. written or printed in the margin of a page: a marginal note. 5. Sociology. marked by contact with disparate cultures, and acquiring some but not all the traits or values common to any one of them. 6. Economics. selling goods at a price that just equals the additional cost of producing the last unit supplied. of or relating to goods produced and marketed at margin : marginal profits.
	3:33am Scraps: h'lo h'lo
	3:37am Creamo Coyl: Fayleeeeeze Cumpleannnoyyyous
	3:38am Creamo Coyl: Thesaurus Rock. Brainy, but not twee.
	3:41am future transport: twee twē/Submit adjectiveBRITISHderogatory excessively or affectedly quaint, pretty, or sentimental. "although the film's a bit twee, it's watchable"
	3:48am greysquad: tracey pew could really rock a cowboy hat without irony...
	3:51am future transport: www.youtube.com... love somewhere in the process The Birthday Party (Köln 1982) [11] Funhouse (With Lydia Lunch)
	4:21am future transport: happy new halloween ....shut up the fkkk hell is like a dream garden to your gut bacteria trying to dream like you....looking for kindness
	4:43am greysquad: I think this is the sound of Putins dreams
	4:46am greysquad: short wave espionage....
	4:46am Ignore Function: I like this number.
	4:47am greysquad: short wave lotto?
	4:49am BrassKnuckles: One of my favorite purchases was the conet project. so cool and creepy. At this hour, the perfect music to play as you go to sleep to induce nightmares.
	4:50am ?: A numbers station is a category of shortwave radio station characterized by broadcasts of formatted numbers, addressed to intelligence officers operating in foreign countries.[1] Most identified stations use speech synthesis to vocalize numbers, although digital modes, such as Phase-shift keying and Frequency-shift keying as well as Morse code transmissions are not uncommon. Most stations have set time schedules, or schedule patterns, however other stations appear to be broadcast at random times. Stations may or may not have set frequencies in the HF band.[2] The first known use of numbers stations was during World War I, and the first possible listener was Archduke Anton of Austria.[3] The numbers were transmitted in Morse code. Numbers Stations operated mainly during the Cold War, yet many continue to operate and some have even switched operators.[4] The Czech Ministry of Interior and the Swedish Security Service have both acknowledged the use of numbers stations by Czechoslovakia for espionage,[5][6][7] with declassified documents proving the same. With a few exceptions,[8] no QSL responses have been received from numbers stations by shortwave listeners who sent reception reports to said stations, which is the expected behavior of a non-clandestine station.[9] The best known of the numbers stations was the "Lincolnshire Poacher", which is thought to have been run by the British Secret Intelligence Service.[10] In 2001, the United States tried the Cuban Five on the charge of spying for Cuba. That group had received and decoded messages that had been broadcast from Cuban numbers stations.[11] Also in 2001, Ana Belen Montes, a senior US Defense Intelligence Agency analyst, was arrested and charged with espionage. The federal prosecutors alleged that Montes was able to communicate with the Cuban Intelligence Directorate through encoded messages, with instructions being received through "encrypted shortwave transmissions from Cuba". In 2006, Carlos Alvarez and his wife, Elsa, were arrested and charged with espionage. The U.S. District Court Florida stated that "defendants would receive assignments via shortwave radio transmissions". In June 2009, the United States similarly charged Walter Kendall Myers with conspiracy to spy for Cuba and receiving and decoding messages broadcast from a numbers station operated by the Cuban Intelligence Directorate to further that conspiracy.[12][13] It has been reported that the United States used numbers stations to communicate encoded information to persons in other countries.[11] There are also claims that State Department operated stations, such as KKN50 and KKN44, used to broadcast similar "numbers" messages or related traffic.[14][15] Contents [hide] 1 Suspected origins and use 1.1 Identifying and locating 2 Atención spy case 3 Formats 4 Transmission technology 5 Interference with numbers stations 5.1 Numbers stations interfering with other broadcasts 5.2 Attempted jamming of numbers stations 6 Classification 7 Recordings and samples 8 References in media 9 See also 10 References 11 Further reading 12 External links Suspected origins and use[edit] According to the notes of The Conet Project,[16][17] which has compiled recordings of these transmissions, numbers stations have been reported since World War I. If accurate, this would count numbers stations among the earliest radio broadcasts.[citation needed] It has long been speculated, and was argued in court in one case, that these stations operate as a simple and foolproof method for government agencies to communicate with spies working undercover.[18] According to this theory, the messages are encrypted with a one-time pad, to avoid any risk of decryption by the enemy. As evidence, numbers stations have changed details of their broadcasts or produced special, nonscheduled broadcasts coincident with extraordinary political events, such as the August Coup of 1991 in the Soviet Union.[19] Numbers stations are also acknowledged for espionage purposes in Robert Wallace and H. Keith Melton's Spycraft:[20] The one-way voice link (OWVL) described a covert communications system that transmitted messages to an agent's unmodified shortwave radio using the high-frequency shortwave bands between 3 and 30 MHz at a predetermined time, date, and frequency contained in their communications plan. The transmissions were contained in a series of repeated random number sequences and could only be deciphered using the agent's one-time pad. If proper tradecraft was practiced and instructions were precisely followed, an OWVL transmission was considered unbreakable. ... As long as the agent's cover could justify possessing a shortwave radio and he was not under technical surveillance, high-frequency OWVL was a secure and preferred system for the CIA during the Cold War. Others speculate that some of these stations may be related to illegal drug smuggling operations.[21] Unlike government stations, smugglers' stations would need to be lower powered and irregularly operated, to avoid location by triangulated direction finding. However, numbers stations have transmitted with impunity for decades, so they are generally presumed to be operated or sponsored by governments. Additionally, numbers station transmissions in the international shortwave bands typically transmit at high power levels that might be unavailable to ranches, farms, or plantations in isolated drug-growing regions.[citation needed] High frequency radio signals transmitted at relatively low power can travel around the world under ideal propagation conditions, which are affected by local RF noise levels, weather, season, and sunspots, and can then be received with a properly tuned antenna of adequate size, and a good receiver. However, spies often have to work only with available hand-held receivers, sometimes under difficult local conditions, and in all seasons and sunspot cycles.[11] Only very large transmitters, perhaps up to 500,000 watts, are guaranteed to get through to nearly any basement-dwelling spy, nearly any place on earth, nearly all of the time. Some governments may not need a numbers station with global coverage if they only send spies to nearby countries.[citation needed] A 1998 article in The Daily Telegraph quoted a spokesperson for the Department of Trade and Industry (the government department that, at that time, regulated radio broadcasting in the United Kingdom) as saying, "These [numbers stations] are what you suppose they are. People shouldn't be mystified by them. They are not for, shall we say, public consumption."[22] On some stations, tones can be heard in the background. In such cases, the voice may simply be an aid to tuning to the correct frequency, with the actual coded message being sent by modulating the tones, using a technology such as burst transmission.[citation needed] The use of numbers stations as a method of espionage is discussed in Spycraft:[23] The only item Penkovsky used that could properly be called advanced tradecraft was his 'agent-receive' communications through a one-way voice-link. These encoded messages, known as OWVL, were broadcast over shortwave frequencies at predetermined times from a CIA-operated transmitter in Western Europe. Penkovsky listened to these messages on a Panasonic radio—strings of numbers read in a dispassionate voice—and then decoded them using a one-time pad. In July 2016 North Korea revived number broadcasts after a hiatus of sixteen years, a move which some analysts regarded as psychological war.[24] Identifying and locating[edit] Numbers stations are often given nicknames by enthusiasts, often reflecting some distinctive element of the station such as their interval signal. For example, the "Lincolnshire Poacher", formerly one of the best known numbers stations (generally thought to be run by SIS, as its transmissions have been traced to RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus), played the first two bars of the folk song "The Lincolnshire Poacher" before each string of numbers.[25] The "Atención" station was thought to be from Cuba, as a supposed error allowed Radio Havana Cuba to be carried on the frequency.[26] Several articles in the radio magazine Popular Communications published in the 1980s and early 1990s described hobbyists using portable radio direction-finding equipment to locate numbers stations in Florida and in the Warrenton, Virginia, areas of the United States.[citation needed] From the outside, they[who?] observed the station's antenna inside a military facility, the Warrenton Training Center. The station hunter speculated that the antenna's transmitter at the facility was connected by a telephone wire pair to a source of spoken numbers in the Washington, D.C., area. The author said the Federal Communications Commission would not comment on public inquiries about American territory numbers stations.[citation needed] According to an internal Cold War era report of the Polish Ministry of Interior, numbers stations DCF37 (3370 kHz) and DFD21 (4010 kHz) transmitted from West Germany since the early 1950s.[27] Atención spy case[edit] The "Atención" station of Cuba became the world's first numbers station to be officially and publicly accused of transmitting to spies. It was the centerpiece of a United States federal court espionage trial following the arrest of the Wasp Network of Cuban spies in 1998. The U.S. prosecutors claimed the accused were writing down number codes received from Atención, using Sony hand-held shortwave receivers, and typing the numbers into laptop computers to decode spying instructions. The FBI testified that they had entered a spy's apartment in 1995, and copied the computer decryption program for the Atención numbers code. They used it to decode Atención spy messages, which the prosecutors unveiled in court.[citation needed] United States government evidence included the following three examples of decoded Atención messages.[11] (Not reported whether the original clear texts were in Spanish, although the phrasing of "Day of the Woman" would indicate so.) "prioritize and continue to strengthen friendship with Joe and Dennis" [68 characters] "Under no circumstances should [agents] German nor Castor fly with BTTR or another organization on days 24, 25, 26 and 27." [112 characters] (BTTR is the anti-Castro airborne group Brothers to the Rescue) "Congratulate all the female comrades for International Day of the Woman." [71 characters] (Probably a simple greeting for International Women's Day on 8 March) At the rate of one spoken number per character per second, each of these sentences takes more than a minute to transmit.[citation needed] The moderator of an e-mail list for global numbers station hobbyists claimed, "Someone on the Spooks list had already cracked the code for a repeated transmission [from Havana to Miami] if it was received garbled." Such code-breaking is possible if a one-time pad decoding key is used more than once.[11] If used properly, however, the code cannot be broken. Formats[edit] MENU0:00 The "Russian Man" station signing off. The numbers read: 83912 83912 10080 10080 46543 46543 – 257 257 143 143 – 00000 Generally, numbers stations follow a basic format, although there are many differences in details between stations. Transmissions usually begin on the hour or half-hour.[citation needed] The prelude, introduction, or call-up of a transmission (from which stations' informal nicknames are often derived) includes some kind of identifier,[28] either for the station itself and/or for the intended recipient. This can take the form of numeric or radio-alphabet "code names" (e.g. "Charlie India Oscar", "250 250 250", "Six-Niner-Zero-Oblique-Five-Four"), characteristic phrases (e.g. "¡Atención!", "Achtung!", "Ready? Ready?", "1234567890"), and sometimes musical or electronic sounds (e.g. "The Lincolnshire Poacher", "Magnetic Fields"). Sometimes, as in the case of the Israeli radio-alphabet stations, the prelude can also signify the nature or priority of the message to follow (e.g., [hypothetically] "Charlie India Oscar-2", indicating that no message follows). Often the prelude repeats for a period before the body of the message begins.[citation needed] After the prelude, there is usually an announcement of the number of number-groups in the message,[28] the page to be used from the one-time pad, or other pertinent information. The groups are then recited. Groups are usually either four or five digits or radio-alphabet letters. The groups are typically repeated, either by reading each group twice, or by repeating the entire message as a whole.[citation needed] Some stations send more than one message during a transmission. In this case, some or all of the above process is repeated, with different contents.[citation needed] Finally, after all the messages have been sent, the station will sign off in some characteristic fashion. Usually it will simply be some form of the word "end" in whatever language the station uses (e.g., "End of message; End of transmission", "Ende", "Fini", "Final", "конец"). Some stations, especially those thought to originate from the former Soviet Union, end with a series of zeros, e.g., "00000" "000 000"; others end with music or other sounds.[28] Because of the secretive nature of the messages, the cryptographic function employed by particular stations is not publicly known, except in one (or possibly two[29]) cases. It is assumed that most stations use a one-time pad that would make the contents of these number groups indistinguishable from randomly generated numbers or digits. In one confirmed case, West Germany did use a one-time pad for numbers transmissions.[30] Transmission technology[edit] Although few numbers stations have been tracked down by location, the technology used to transmit the numbers has historically been clear—stock shortwave transmitters using powers from 10 kW to 100 kW.[citation needed] Amplitude modulated (AM) transmitters with optionally–variable frequency, using class-C power output stages with plate modulation, are the workhorses of international shortwave broadcasting, including numbers stations.[citation needed] Application of spectrum analysis to numbers station signals has revealed the presence of data bursts, RTTY-modulated subcarriers, phase-shifted carriers, and other unusual transmitter modulations like polytones.[31] (RTTY-modulated subcarriers were also present on some U.S. commercial radio transmissions during the Cold War.[32]) The frequently reported use of high tech modulations like data bursts, in combination or in sequence with spoken numbers, suggests varying transmissions for differing intelligence operations.[33] Speech/Morse generator For spies in the field, low-tech spoken number transmissions continue to have advantages in the 21st century. High-tech data receiving equipment is difficult to obtain,[34] and being caught with just a shortwave radio has a degree of plausible deniability that no spying is being conducted whereas possessing equipment more advanced than a civilian shortwave news radio would raise more eyebrows and would more quickly be construed as evidence of spying than something as harmlessly commonplace as an AM radio.[citation needed] Interference with numbers stations[edit] Numbers stations interfering with other broadcasts[edit] The North Korean foreign language service Voice of Korea began to broadcast on the Lincolnshire Poacher's former frequency, 11545 kHz, in 2006, possibly to deliberately interfere with its propagation. However, Lincolnshire Poacher broadcasts on not one, but three different frequencies, of which the remaining two have not been interfered with. The apparent target zone for the Lincolnshire Poacher signals originating in Cyprus was the Middle East, not the Far East, which is covered by its sister station, Cherry Ripe.[35] On 27 September 2006, amateur radio transmissions in the 30 m band were affected by an English-language "Russian Man" numbers station at 17:40 UTC.[35] The late "Havana Moon" reported in his own publication The Numbers Factsheet in October 1990 that "one particularly dangerous station has been interfering with air to ground traffic on 6577 kHz, a frequency allocated to international aeronautical communications in the busy Caribbean sector". "On at least one monitored transmission, the air traffic controller at ARINC moved the pilot to an alternate frequency as the numbers transmission was totally blocking the frequency from effective use".[35] A BBC frequency, 7325 kHz, has also been used. This prompted a letter to the BBC from a listener in Andorra. She wrote to the World Service Waveguide programme[when?] complaining that her listening had been spoiled by a female voice reading out numbers in English and asked the announcer what this interference was. The BBC presenter laughed at the suggestion of spy activity. He had consulted the experts at Bush House (BBC World Service headquarters), who declared that the voice was reading out nothing more sinister than snowfall figures for the ski slopes near the listener's home. After more research into this case, shortwave enthusiasts are fairly sure that this was a numbers station being broadcast on a random frequency.[36] Attempted jamming of numbers stations[edit] Numbers station transmissions have often been the target of intentional jamming attempts. Despite this targeting, many numbers stations continue to broadcast unhindered. Historical examples of jamming include the YHF[definition needed] being jammed by the mysterious "Chinese Music Station".[37] Classification[edit] Although many numbers stations have nicknames which usually describe some aspect of the station itself, these nicknames have sometimes led to confusion among listeners, particularly when discussing stations with similar traits. M. Gauffman of the ENIGMA numbers stations monitoring group[38] originally assigned a code to each known station. Portions of the original ENIGMA group moved on to other interests in 2000 and the classification of numbers stations was continued by the follow-on group ENIGMA 2000.[39] The document containing the description of each station and its code designation is called the "ENIGMA Control List", whose 26th edition was published in February 2016.[40] This classification scheme takes the form of a letter followed by a number (or, in the case of some "X" stations, more numbers).[41] The letter indicates the language used by the station in question: E indicates a station broadcasting in English. G indicates a station broadcasting in German. S indicates a station broadcasting in a Slavic language. V indicates all other languages. M is a station broadcasting in Morse code. X indicates all other transmissions, such as polytones, in addition to some unexplained broadcasts which may not actually be numbers stations. For example, the well-known, defunct Lincolnshire Poacher station has the designation E3 (or E03); the Cuban "Atención" station has designation V2 (or V02). The most recent station to be given a designation is the Vietnamese language station V30.[citation needed] There are also a few other stations[28] with a specific classification: SK: Digital Mode HM: Hybrid Mode DP: Digital-Pseudo Polytone Some stations have also been stripped of their designation when they were discovered not to be a numbers station. This was the case for E22, which was discovered in 2005 to be test transmissions for All India Radio.[42] Recordings and samples[edit] The Conet Project: Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations is a four-CD set of recordings of numbers stations. It was first released in 1997 by the Irdial-Discs record label. A broadcast of these recordings can be heard and downloaded at the Internet Archive.[43] Samples from Conet Project recordings, most notably Tcp D1 3 Counting Control Irdial, are used by the Scottish electronic music group Boards of Canada on their 2002 album Geogaddi, most conspicuously on the track "Gyroscope".[44] Samples from the tracks "tcp d4 11 konec konec irdial" and "tcp d2 08 the russian man d-va northern russian voice irdial" were used by American electronic music artist Flying Lotus on his 2008 album Los Angeles.[45] Samples from the track "tcp d1 1 the swedish rhapsody irdial" are used by the alternative rock band Stereolab in the song "Pause" from their 1993 album Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements.[46] Samples from the Lincolnshire Poacher appear in the song "II. The People" by metal artist Norma Jean on the album Polar Similar.[47] Samples from an unknown station appear in the song "Even Less" by Porcupine Tree at the end of the track.[48] Samples from an unknown station appear in the song "Poor Places" by Wilco on the album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.[49] References in media[edit] The band Wilco named its album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2001) after a segment of a recorded numbers station transmission.[49] The British–American action thriller The Numbers Station, released in 2013 and starring John Cusack and Malin Åkerman, features a CIA‑run numbers station in the British countryside.[50] The American television series Fringe has an episode (season 3, episode 6) featuring a numbers station,[51] as do the series Scandal (season 2, episode 6), Covert Affairs (season 1, episode 2), Lost (season 1, episode 18), The Americans (season 1, episode 8 and season 2, episode 2), and Z Nation (season 2, episode 1), along with the podcasts Welcome to Night Vale (episode 6, "The Drawbridge," episode 42, "Numbers," and episode 65, "Voicemail") and Tanis (episode 2, "Radio Radio"). The 2013 American horror film Banshee Chapter, starring Ted Levine and Katia Winter, features a numbers station transmitting from the Black Rock Desert in Nevada.[52] In Treyarch and Activision's 2010 PC/console game Call of Duty: Black Ops, the primary character Alex Mason is captured and programmed to understand broadcasts from a Russian numbers station.[53] The first story of Chinese novel In the Dark by Mai Jia focuses on a cryptographer in Special Unit 701, part of China’s effort to track down and decode enemy number stations. It has been made into a TV series and a movie.[54] A BBC Radio 4 drama, "Fugue State", focuses on a British government agent investigating a numbers station in a remote village, and features recordings of numbers stations.[55]
	4:51am Vincent Nifigance: ...told ya!
	4:51am joeray: Plu-har-mon
	4:52am BrassKnuckles: I think I bought it used at Amoeba in SF so it was dirt cheap.
	4:54am BrassKnuckles: But Trump loves Putin. It will be next level cold war where Russia and US team up against China.
	4:56am BrassKnuckles: That seems crazy but Trump is President so I'm not too farfetched in throwing out the possibility.
	4:57am BrassKnuckles: Anytime someone says they're from Ohio I want to say oh, I'm sorry.
	5:01am BrassKnuckles: I think Wilco based their one album after listening to the Conet Project. The same title of that Tina Fey movie.
	5:02am greysquad: here's a sneak preview of newclear trump age... not yet in 3d... www.youtube.com...
	5:03am Creamo Coyl: ooo Pluramon, been awhile since I thouhgt about that guy. saw him play a cool show around 2000.
	5:37am fred: Good morning all. Volcano The Bear was a great live band
	5:40am Creamo Coyl: I believe it, wish I had seen them.
	5:50am fred: I guess you have more opportunities than I do to see Aaron Moore. That can be pretty close to a Volcano performance
	5:56am Creamo Coyl: I did actually see him play solo recently and it was pretty great.

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	New	Approx. start time
Negative Trend	M-16 + Never Say Die + No Alternative + You And I + I Can Laugh About It Now + Won't Be Pacified + Dead Wrong + Mannequin + I Don't Wanna Be A Machine (Karen Anne Quinlan)	The Pop Sessions	White Noise	1998	CD	w/ Rozz (and no Neg Trend?!)		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Donkey	Shtick Selecta "Shtick Selecta" by "Donkey"	"I Ain't Yer House-N------"	Loveletter/Guided Missile	1995	CD			0:18:45 (Pop-up)
Laddio Bolocko	Beatrice The Coyote	The Life and Times of Laddio Bolocko	No Quarter	2003	CD	collection		0:27:43 (Pop-up)
Silberbart	Head Tear of the Drunken Sun	4 Times Sound Razing	Philips	1971	LP			0:32:48 (Pop-up)
The Birthday Party	Funhouse "Funhouse" by "The Birthday Party"	Live 1981-82	4AD	1999	CD	Stooges cover		0:44:06 (Pop-up)

The Jazz Destroyers	Fun To Be Cruel + Pretty Flowers + Jazz Destroyers Theme + Town To Town + Have A Nice Day + Only The Weak Survive + Pain + Incomprehensible + Love Meant To Die + The Outskirts Of Town +	Live At JBs	boot	2016	Cassette	recorded in Kent, OH 1981		1:10:16 (Pop-up)
The Jazz Destroyers	Broken Beer Bottle Gardens On Mars + Psychology 101 + Bagful Of Garbage	Live At JBs		2016	Cassette	recorded live in 1981		1:33:23 (Pop-up)
Covert Agents Around The World	Numbers	The Conet Project - Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations	Irdial	2013	CD box set			1:44:00 (Pop-up)

Five Times Of Dust	Computer Bank "Computer Bank" by "Five Times Of Dust"	Close to the Noise Floor: Formative UK Electronica 1975-1984	Cherry Red	2016	CD box set		*	2:04:45 (Pop-up)
The Klingons	R.A.M. "R.A.M." by "The Klingons"	Close to the Noise Floor: Formative UK Electronica 1975-1984	Cherry Red	2016	CD box set			2:09:18 (Pop-up)
Chris & Cosey	Re-Education Through Labour	Close to the Noise Floor: Formative UK Electronica 1975-1984	Cherry Red	2016	CD box set			2:16:59 (Pop-up)
Malcolm Brown	Sedation Strokes "Sedation Strokes" by "Malcolm Brown"	Close to the Noise Floor: Formative UK Electronica 1975-1984	Cherry Red	2016	CD box set			2:21:43 (Pop-up)
Storm Bugs	Little Bob Minor "Little Bob Minor" by "Storm Bugs"	Close to the Noise Floor: Formative UK Electronica 1975-1984	Cherry Red	2016	CD box set			2:24:21 (Pop-up)

Volcano The Bear	Halo Onus Volcano + Fat Monarch + Jackanapes + Tori Anus Abdul + Sex Transfusion + Hot Rat Piano + Aflame + Night Fig + Monthly Friends To Cherish	Commencing	Miasmah	2015	LP box set			2:31:51 (Pop-up)

Nag	Dead Space + Identify + Dream Team + Birthday Culture	Demo	self-released	2016	Cassette		*	2:54:43 (Pop-up)

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	3:04am future transport: yhppay enw eray-+)=)=))0_(0=_(=(_
	3:07am joeray: She was just seventeen...
	3:17am future transport: THIS is what public image should have sounded like +_"':-)0=_0ooo-
	3:20am greysquad: that's right kid's ... ludes and gin and tonics don't mix very well...
	3:21am greysquad: unless of course you want to be on a machine...
	3:23am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...well...I do kinda wanna stream marginal music 24/7...
	3:31am future transport: marginal [mahr-juh-nl] Spell Syllables Examples Word Origin See more synonyms on Thesaurus.com adjective 1. pertaining to a margin. 2. situated on the border or edge. 3. at the outer or lower limits; minimal for requirements; almost insufficient: marginal subsistence; marginal ability. 4. written or printed in the margin of a page: a marginal note. 5. Sociology. marked by contact with disparate cultures, and acquiring some but not all the traits or values common to any one of them. 6. Economics. selling goods at a price that just equals the additional cost of producing the last unit supplied. of or relating to goods produced and marketed at margin : marginal profits.
	3:33am Scraps: h'lo h'lo
	3:37am Creamo Coyl: Fayleeeeeze Cumpleannnoyyyous
	3:38am Creamo Coyl: Thesaurus Rock. Brainy, but not twee.
	3:41am future transport: twee twē/Submit adjectiveBRITISHderogatory excessively or affectedly quaint, pretty, or sentimental. "although the film's a bit twee, it's watchable"
	3:48am greysquad: tracey pew could really rock a cowboy hat without irony...
	3:51am future transport: www.youtube.com... love somewhere in the process The Birthday Party (Köln 1982) [11] Funhouse (With Lydia Lunch)
	4:21am future transport: happy new halloween ....shut up the fkkk hell is like a dream garden to your gut bacteria trying to dream like you....looking for kindness
	4:43am greysquad: I think this is the sound of Putins dreams
	4:46am greysquad: short wave espionage....
	4:46am Ignore Function: I like this number.
	4:47am greysquad: short wave lotto?
	4:49am BrassKnuckles: One of my favorite purchases was the conet project. so cool and creepy. At this hour, the perfect music to play as you go to sleep to induce nightmares.
	4:50am ?: A numbers station is a category of shortwave radio station characterized by broadcasts of formatted numbers, addressed to intelligence officers operating in foreign countries.[1] Most identified stations use speech synthesis to vocalize numbers, although digital modes, such as Phase-shift keying and Frequency-shift keying as well as Morse code transmissions are not uncommon. Most stations have set time schedules, or schedule patterns, however other stations appear to be broadcast at random times. Stations may or may not have set frequencies in the HF band.[2] The first known use of numbers stations was during World War I, and the first possible listener was Archduke Anton of Austria.[3] The numbers were transmitted in Morse code. Numbers Stations operated mainly during the Cold War, yet many continue to operate and some have even switched operators.[4] The Czech Ministry of Interior and the Swedish Security Service have both acknowledged the use of numbers stations by Czechoslovakia for espionage,[5][6][7] with declassified documents proving the same. With a few exceptions,[8] no QSL responses have been received from numbers stations by shortwave listeners who sent reception reports to said stations, which is the expected behavior of a non-clandestine station.[9] The best known of the numbers stations was the "Lincolnshire Poacher", which is thought to have been run by the British Secret Intelligence Service.[10] In 2001, the United States tried the Cuban Five on the charge of spying for Cuba. That group had received and decoded messages that had been broadcast from Cuban numbers stations.[11] Also in 2001, Ana Belen Montes, a senior US Defense Intelligence Agency analyst, was arrested and charged with espionage. The federal prosecutors alleged that Montes was able to communicate with the Cuban Intelligence Directorate through encoded messages, with instructions being received through "encrypted shortwave transmissions from Cuba". In 2006, Carlos Alvarez and his wife, Elsa, were arrested and charged with espionage. The U.S. District Court Florida stated that "defendants would receive assignments via shortwave radio transmissions". In June 2009, the United States similarly charged Walter Kendall Myers with conspiracy to spy for Cuba and receiving and decoding messages broadcast from a numbers station operated by the Cuban Intelligence Directorate to further that conspiracy.[12][13] It has been reported that the United States used numbers stations to communicate encoded information to persons in other countries.[11] There are also claims that State Department operated stations, such as KKN50 and KKN44, used to broadcast similar "numbers" messages or related traffic.[14][15] Contents [hide] 1 Suspected origins and use 1.1 Identifying and locating 2 Atención spy case 3 Formats 4 Transmission technology 5 Interference with numbers stations 5.1 Numbers stations interfering with other broadcasts 5.2 Attempted jamming of numbers stations 6 Classification 7 Recordings and samples 8 References in media 9 See also 10 References 11 Further reading 12 External links Suspected origins and use[edit] According to the notes of The Conet Project,[16][17] which has compiled recordings of these transmissions, numbers stations have been reported since World War I. If accurate, this would count numbers stations among the earliest radio broadcasts.[citation needed] It has long been speculated, and was argued in court in one case, that these stations operate as a simple and foolproof method for government agencies to communicate with spies working undercover.[18] According to this theory, the messages are encrypted with a one-time pad, to avoid any risk of decryption by the enemy. As evidence, numbers stations have changed details of their broadcasts or produced special, nonscheduled broadcasts coincident with extraordinary political events, such as the August Coup of 1991 in the Soviet Union.[19] Numbers stations are also acknowledged for espionage purposes in Robert Wallace and H. Keith Melton's Spycraft:[20] The one-way voice link (OWVL) described a covert communications system that transmitted messages to an agent's unmodified shortwave radio using the high-frequency shortwave bands between 3 and 30 MHz at a predetermined time, date, and frequency contained in their communications plan. The transmissions were contained in a series of repeated random number sequences and could only be deciphered using the agent's one-time pad. If proper tradecraft was practiced and instructions were precisely followed, an OWVL transmission was considered unbreakable. ... As long as the agent's cover could justify possessing a shortwave radio and he was not under technical surveillance, high-frequency OWVL was a secure and preferred system for the CIA during the Cold War. Others speculate that some of these stations may be related to illegal drug smuggling operations.[21] Unlike government stations, smugglers' stations would need to be lower powered and irregularly operated, to avoid location by triangulated direction finding. However, numbers stations have transmitted with impunity for decades, so they are generally presumed to be operated or sponsored by governments. Additionally, numbers station transmissions in the international shortwave bands typically transmit at high power levels that might be unavailable to ranches, farms, or plantations in isolated drug-growing regions.[citation needed] High frequency radio signals transmitted at relatively low power can travel around the world under ideal propagation conditions, which are affected by local RF noise levels, weather, season, and sunspots, and can then be received with a properly tuned antenna of adequate size, and a good receiver. However, spies often have to work only with available hand-held receivers, sometimes under difficult local conditions, and in all seasons and sunspot cycles.[11] Only very large transmitters, perhaps up to 500,000 watts, are guaranteed to get through to nearly any basement-dwelling spy, nearly any place on earth, nearly all of the time. Some governments may not need a numbers station with global coverage if they only send spies to nearby countries.[citation needed] A 1998 article in The Daily Telegraph quoted a spokesperson for the Department of Trade and Industry (the government department that, at that time, regulated radio broadcasting in the United Kingdom) as saying, "These [numbers stations] are what you suppose they are. People shouldn't be mystified by them. They are not for, shall we say, public consumption."[22] On some stations, tones can be heard in the background. In such cases, the voice may simply be an aid to tuning to the correct frequency, with the actual coded message being sent by modulating the tones, using a technology such as burst transmission.[citation needed] The use of numbers stations as a method of espionage is discussed in Spycraft:[23] The only item Penkovsky used that could properly be called advanced tradecraft was his 'agent-receive' communications through a one-way voice-link. These encoded messages, known as OWVL, were broadcast over shortwave frequencies at predetermined times from a CIA-operated transmitter in Western Europe. Penkovsky listened to these messages on a Panasonic radio—strings of numbers read in a dispassionate voice—and then decoded them using a one-time pad. In July 2016 North Korea revived number broadcasts after a hiatus of sixteen years, a move which some analysts regarded as psychological war.[24] Identifying and locating[edit] Numbers stations are often given nicknames by enthusiasts, often reflecting some distinctive element of the station such as their interval signal. For example, the "Lincolnshire Poacher", formerly one of the best known numbers stations (generally thought to be run by SIS, as its transmissions have been traced to RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus), played the first two bars of the folk song "The Lincolnshire Poacher" before each string of numbers.[25] The "Atención" station was thought to be from Cuba, as a supposed error allowed Radio Havana Cuba to be carried on the frequency.[26] Several articles in the radio magazine Popular Communications published in the 1980s and early 1990s described hobbyists using portable radio direction-finding equipment to locate numbers stations in Florida and in the Warrenton, Virginia, areas of the United States.[citation needed] From the outside, they[who?] observed the station's antenna inside a military facility, the Warrenton Training Center. The station hunter speculated that the antenna's transmitter at the facility was connected by a telephone wire pair to a source of spoken numbers in the Washington, D.C., area. The author said the Federal Communications Commission would not comment on public inquiries about American territory numbers stations.[citation needed] According to an internal Cold War era report of the Polish Ministry of Interior, numbers stations DCF37 (3370 kHz) and DFD21 (4010 kHz) transmitted from West Germany since the early 1950s.[27] Atención spy case[edit] The "Atención" station of Cuba became the world's first numbers station to be officially and publicly accused of transmitting to spies. It was the centerpiece of a United States federal court espionage trial following the arrest of the Wasp Network of Cuban spies in 1998. The U.S. prosecutors claimed the accused were writing down number codes received from Atención, using Sony hand-held shortwave receivers, and typing the numbers into laptop computers to decode spying instructions. The FBI testified that they had entered a spy's apartment in 1995, and copied the computer decryption program for the Atención numbers code. They used it to decode Atención spy messages, which the prosecutors unveiled in court.[citation needed] United States government evidence included the following three examples of decoded Atención messages.[11] (Not reported whether the original clear texts were in Spanish, although the phrasing of "Day of the Woman" would indicate so.) "prioritize and continue to strengthen friendship with Joe and Dennis" [68 characters] "Under no circumstances should [agents] German nor Castor fly with BTTR or another organization on days 24, 25, 26 and 27." [112 characters] (BTTR is the anti-Castro airborne group Brothers to the Rescue) "Congratulate all the female comrades for International Day of the Woman." [71 characters] (Probably a simple greeting for International Women's Day on 8 March) At the rate of one spoken number per character per second, each of these sentences takes more than a minute to transmit.[citation needed] The moderator of an e-mail list for global numbers station hobbyists claimed, "Someone on the Spooks list had already cracked the code for a repeated transmission [from Havana to Miami] if it was received garbled." Such code-breaking is possible if a one-time pad decoding key is used more than once.[11] If used properly, however, the code cannot be broken. Formats[edit] MENU0:00 The "Russian Man" station signing off. The numbers read: 83912 83912 10080 10080 46543 46543 – 257 257 143 143 – 00000 Generally, numbers stations follow a basic format, although there are many differences in details between stations. Transmissions usually begin on the hour or half-hour.[citation needed] The prelude, introduction, or call-up of a transmission (from which stations' informal nicknames are often derived) includes some kind of identifier,[28] either for the station itself and/or for the intended recipient. This can take the form of numeric or radio-alphabet "code names" (e.g. "Charlie India Oscar", "250 250 250", "Six-Niner-Zero-Oblique-Five-Four"), characteristic phrases (e.g. "¡Atención!", "Achtung!", "Ready? Ready?", "1234567890"), and sometimes musical or electronic sounds (e.g. "The Lincolnshire Poacher", "Magnetic Fields"). Sometimes, as in the case of the Israeli radio-alphabet stations, the prelude can also signify the nature or priority of the message to follow (e.g., [hypothetically] "Charlie India Oscar-2", indicating that no message follows). Often the prelude repeats for a period before the body of the message begins.[citation needed] After the prelude, there is usually an announcement of the number of number-groups in the message,[28] the page to be used from the one-time pad, or other pertinent information. The groups are then recited. Groups are usually either four or five digits or radio-alphabet letters. The groups are typically repeated, either by reading each group twice, or by repeating the entire message as a whole.[citation needed] Some stations send more than one message during a transmission. In this case, some or all of the above process is repeated, with different contents.[citation needed] Finally, after all the messages have been sent, the station will sign off in some characteristic fashion. Usually it will simply be some form of the word "end" in whatever language the station uses (e.g., "End of message; End of transmission", "Ende", "Fini", "Final", "конец"). Some stations, especially those thought to originate from the former Soviet Union, end with a series of zeros, e.g., "00000" "000 000"; others end with music or other sounds.[28] Because of the secretive nature of the messages, the cryptographic function employed by particular stations is not publicly known, except in one (or possibly two[29]) cases. It is assumed that most stations use a one-time pad that would make the contents of these number groups indistinguishable from randomly generated numbers or digits. In one confirmed case, West Germany did use a one-time pad for numbers transmissions.[30] Transmission technology[edit] Although few numbers stations have been tracked down by location, the technology used to transmit the numbers has historically been clear—stock shortwave transmitters using powers from 10 kW to 100 kW.[citation needed] Amplitude modulated (AM) transmitters with optionally–variable frequency, using class-C power output stages with plate modulation, are the workhorses of international shortwave broadcasting, including numbers stations.[citation needed] Application of spectrum analysis to numbers station signals has revealed the presence of data bursts, RTTY-modulated subcarriers, phase-shifted carriers, and other unusual transmitter modulations like polytones.[31] (RTTY-modulated subcarriers were also present on some U.S. commercial radio transmissions during the Cold War.[32]) The frequently reported use of high tech modulations like data bursts, in combination or in sequence with spoken numbers, suggests varying transmissions for differing intelligence operations.[33] Speech/Morse generator For spies in the field, low-tech spoken number transmissions continue to have advantages in the 21st century. High-tech data receiving equipment is difficult to obtain,[34] and being caught with just a shortwave radio has a degree of plausible deniability that no spying is being conducted whereas possessing equipment more advanced than a civilian shortwave news radio would raise more eyebrows and would more quickly be construed as evidence of spying than something as harmlessly commonplace as an AM radio.[citation needed] Interference with numbers stations[edit] Numbers stations interfering with other broadcasts[edit] The North Korean foreign language service Voice of Korea began to broadcast on the Lincolnshire Poacher's former frequency, 11545 kHz, in 2006, possibly to deliberately interfere with its propagation. However, Lincolnshire Poacher broadcasts on not one, but three different frequencies, of which the remaining two have not been interfered with. The apparent target zone for the Lincolnshire Poacher signals originating in Cyprus was the Middle East, not the Far East, which is covered by its sister station, Cherry Ripe.[35] On 27 September 2006, amateur radio transmissions in the 30 m band were affected by an English-language "Russian Man" numbers station at 17:40 UTC.[35] The late "Havana Moon" reported in his own publication The Numbers Factsheet in October 1990 that "one particularly dangerous station has been interfering with air to ground traffic on 6577 kHz, a frequency allocated to international aeronautical communications in the busy Caribbean sector". "On at least one monitored transmission, the air traffic controller at ARINC moved the pilot to an alternate frequency as the numbers transmission was totally blocking the frequency from effective use".[35] A BBC frequency, 7325 kHz, has also been used. This prompted a letter to the BBC from a listener in Andorra. She wrote to the World Service Waveguide programme[when?] complaining that her listening had been spoiled by a female voice reading out numbers in English and asked the announcer what this interference was. The BBC presenter laughed at the suggestion of spy activity. He had consulted the experts at Bush House (BBC World Service headquarters), who declared that the voice was reading out nothing more sinister than snowfall figures for the ski slopes near the listener's home. After more research into this case, shortwave enthusiasts are fairly sure that this was a numbers station being broadcast on a random frequency.[36] Attempted jamming of numbers stations[edit] Numbers station transmissions have often been the target of intentional jamming attempts. Despite this targeting, many numbers stations continue to broadcast unhindered. Historical examples of jamming include the YHF[definition needed] being jammed by the mysterious "Chinese Music Station".[37] Classification[edit] Although many numbers stations have nicknames which usually describe some aspect of the station itself, these nicknames have sometimes led to confusion among listeners, particularly when discussing stations with similar traits. M. Gauffman of the ENIGMA numbers stations monitoring group[38] originally assigned a code to each known station. Portions of the original ENIGMA group moved on to other interests in 2000 and the classification of numbers stations was continued by the follow-on group ENIGMA 2000.[39] The document containing the description of each station and its code designation is called the "ENIGMA Control List", whose 26th edition was published in February 2016.[40] This classification scheme takes the form of a letter followed by a number (or, in the case of some "X" stations, more numbers).[41] The letter indicates the language used by the station in question: E indicates a station broadcasting in English. G indicates a station broadcasting in German. S indicates a station broadcasting in a Slavic language. V indicates all other languages. M is a station broadcasting in Morse code. X indicates all other transmissions, such as polytones, in addition to some unexplained broadcasts which may not actually be numbers stations. For example, the well-known, defunct Lincolnshire Poacher station has the designation E3 (or E03); the Cuban "Atención" station has designation V2 (or V02). The most recent station to be given a designation is the Vietnamese language station V30.[citation needed] There are also a few other stations[28] with a specific classification: SK: Digital Mode HM: Hybrid Mode DP: Digital-Pseudo Polytone Some stations have also been stripped of their designation when they were discovered not to be a numbers station. This was the case for E22, which was discovered in 2005 to be test transmissions for All India Radio.[42] Recordings and samples[edit] The Conet Project: Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations is a four-CD set of recordings of numbers stations. It was first released in 1997 by the Irdial-Discs record label. A broadcast of these recordings can be heard and downloaded at the Internet Archive.[43] Samples from Conet Project recordings, most notably Tcp D1 3 Counting Control Irdial, are used by the Scottish electronic music group Boards of Canada on their 2002 album Geogaddi, most conspicuously on the track "Gyroscope".[44] Samples from the tracks "tcp d4 11 konec konec irdial" and "tcp d2 08 the russian man d-va northern russian voice irdial" were used by American electronic music artist Flying Lotus on his 2008 album Los Angeles.[45] Samples from the track "tcp d1 1 the swedish rhapsody irdial" are used by the alternative rock band Stereolab in the song "Pause" from their 1993 album Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements.[46] Samples from the Lincolnshire Poacher appear in the song "II. The People" by metal artist Norma Jean on the album Polar Similar.[47] Samples from an unknown station appear in the song "Even Less" by Porcupine Tree at the end of the track.[48] Samples from an unknown station appear in the song "Poor Places" by Wilco on the album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.[49] References in media[edit] The band Wilco named its album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2001) after a segment of a recorded numbers station transmission.[49] The British–American action thriller The Numbers Station, released in 2013 and starring John Cusack and Malin Åkerman, features a CIA‑run numbers station in the British countryside.[50] The American television series Fringe has an episode (season 3, episode 6) featuring a numbers station,[51] as do the series Scandal (season 2, episode 6), Covert Affairs (season 1, episode 2), Lost (season 1, episode 18), The Americans (season 1, episode 8 and season 2, episode 2), and Z Nation (season 2, episode 1), along with the podcasts Welcome to Night Vale (episode 6, "The Drawbridge," episode 42, "Numbers," and episode 65, "Voicemail") and Tanis (episode 2, "Radio Radio"). The 2013 American horror film Banshee Chapter, starring Ted Levine and Katia Winter, features a numbers station transmitting from the Black Rock Desert in Nevada.[52] In Treyarch and Activision's 2010 PC/console game Call of Duty: Black Ops, the primary character Alex Mason is captured and programmed to understand broadcasts from a Russian numbers station.[53] The first story of Chinese novel In the Dark by Mai Jia focuses on a cryptographer in Special Unit 701, part of China’s effort to track down and decode enemy number stations. It has been made into a TV series and a movie.[54] A BBC Radio 4 drama, "Fugue State", focuses on a British government agent investigating a numbers station in a remote village, and features recordings of numbers stations.[55]
	4:51am Vincent Nifigance: ...told ya!
	4:51am joeray: Plu-har-mon
	4:52am BrassKnuckles: I think I bought it used at Amoeba in SF so it was dirt cheap.
	4:54am BrassKnuckles: But Trump loves Putin. It will be next level cold war where Russia and US team up against China.
	4:56am BrassKnuckles: That seems crazy but Trump is President so I'm not too farfetched in throwing out the possibility.
	4:57am BrassKnuckles: Anytime someone says they're from Ohio I want to say oh, I'm sorry.
	5:01am BrassKnuckles: I think Wilco based their one album after listening to the Conet Project. The same title of that Tina Fey movie.
	5:02am greysquad: here's a sneak preview of newclear trump age... not yet in 3d... www.youtube.com...
	5:03am Creamo Coyl: ooo Pluramon, been awhile since I thouhgt about that guy. saw him play a cool show around 2000.
	5:37am fred: Good morning all. Volcano The Bear was a great live band
	5:40am Creamo Coyl: I believe it, wish I had seen them.
	5:50am fred: I guess you have more opportunities than I do to see Aaron Moore. That can be pretty close to a Volcano performance
	5:56am Creamo Coyl: I did actually see him play solo recently and it was pretty great.

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