I enjoy watching clips of those stations and also hearing the sound of the
Duga OTH radar from time to time.
They remind me of the late 70s/80s.
During contest weekends you could hear its powerful signal several times
whatever band you were on.
https://youtu.be/aOMVdOc9UbE
https://youtu.be/5ChuZIXG7Io
73,
Martín, LU5DX
El dom., 20 sep. 2020 9:22 a. m., AB1J via CQ-Contest <
cq-contest@contesting.com> escribió:
> Hi,
> This is not related to contesting (Spy vs Spy?) but perhaps is of interest
> to anyone who's been intrigued by numbers stations or had one for a
> neighbor like I did for a while. Maybe also a brief diversion from
> thinking about our current situation.
>
> There is a movie called "The Numbers Station", a thriller about a CIA
> operative (John Cusak) sent to protect personnel at a clandestine numbers
> station in England. It's an average action movie, but I was interested in
> whatever radio equipment was shown. Turned out it was all computer
> interfaced. I didn't see any transmitters or antennas, just big monitors.
>
> Bad guys took over the station to send their own bogus messages. A great
> deal of violence ensued. Lots of bodies. John won.
>
> And John had a crisis of conscience about his career choice, although I
> wasn't quite sure why since he made a difference and saved the day.
>
> 73,
>
> Ken, AB1J
>
>
>
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