You may have heard the story on NPR about The Conet Project, a 4 CD set of recordings of numbers broadcasts on shortwave radio, recorded, edited, compiled, and produced by Akin Fernandez in London. For those that haven't heard of these spook shows, here's some aticles and websites that give the background in great detail. For starters I reccomend this one:

www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...g2.html

Here are some others:

www.straightdope.com/classic...330.html

www.dxing.com/numbers.htm

www.simonmason.karoo.net/page32.html

On the other hand, there is a lot of information I cant make much sense out of, mainly because it assumes too much background and technical knowlege for me to follow clearly. I created this tribe in order to learn how to understand these specialized websites, use my radio more effectively and to find and listen in on the broadcasts myself.

I purchased a very cheap SW radio ("SW" stands for "Short Wave" to us radio geeks), and could only get whistles and static. I'm disappointed, to say the least, but not dismayed. I will post more specific technical questions later, but I will let this stand as my introduction.

This seems to be a site devoted to shortwave radio in general.

shortwave.hfradio.org/