Radia #1038 - Numberstations by Lale Rodgarkia-Dara - 15 May 2025

Members of **http://radia.fm**, the international group of independent cultural radio stations, explore new and forgotten ways of making radio.

This episode is a contribution by **https://www.radiohelsinki.fi**.

There are two kinds of dedicated radio listeners.Those who head for their FM Soundscape while, working, reading living and those who head for numbers and morse-code on short wave. Distracting at least one of these groups may seem like an achievable aim. While we are discussing pipeline-holes and ripped interbet-cables in the Baltic sea, the neo-rebellion in Iran and drones in circles, it had all been broadcasted beforehand.

This show is dedicated to numberstations, a way of broadcasting encrypted information via serieses of numbers or letters, using either automated voice, Morse code, or a digital mode. A methode that has been used since WW I and is still used as this signals are not sensitive to any distortion and disturbance and reach out via aether into the air and water