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NUMBERS station currently active (02:27 am Florida Time 03:27 EDT)

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Rob

Hearing NUMBERS station on 5900 lady in spanish reading numbers with spanish music/talk and the world famous RR CW every minute.
Hang on and let me turn on my radio decoder on the G5 and tell ya what she is saying :)

..and I thought they only used 5.000 this must be new

-Rob
 
RR in Morse would be Radio Reloj, Cuba. They are not on shortwave (though occasionally Radio Havana Cuba patches Reloj or Rebelde audio either in error or for reasons unknown). 5900 is not an RHC channel though so it might be a receiver image or a spy numbers station from Cuba that accidentally patched Reloj audio. As for 5000, that's a stadard time & frequency channel (WWV, WWVB, YVTO etc.), not a Reloj channel. Reloj is all-news, with minute time sounders (sometimes switches to chimes instead of the Morse on local Sundays). 950 -- if an open channel for you -- is a strong Reloj frequency, but there are dozens of others on MW that can be heard, especially here in coastal west Florida.
 
How is she reading numbers with music and talk and the Radio Reloj pips each minute? Quite a talented woman whom I must meet! :eek:

When I've heard the numbers stations, they are just that: numbers being read aloud. No background of words or music. Are you sure that you weren't getting some bleed over from RR on MW?

On a different note, aren't Florida Time and EDT pretty much the same time - except in one tiny sliver of the state? I somehow don't think that the 95% of the state's population that lives in Eastern Time would appreciate knowing that they aren't in "Florida time". Just an observation.... ;)
 
Why I asked if 5900 was anything else. It sounded like it was on the same carrier though. Around 4:30 she said "goodnight" and the carrier was still there, music and RR in the background. Sorry but my brain doesn't do UTC that well I know its +6 local time here

I can hear two announcers while the music stops playing (like it was bleeding from her board)

The signal can be heard all the way in arizona and canada when i checked it. (teleportation by using a site called DXTUNERS)

-Rob
 
robfwb said:
Why I asked if 5900 was anything else. It sounded like it was on the same carrier though. Around 4:30 she said "goodnight" and the carrier was still there, music and RR in the background. Sorry but my brain doesn't do UTC that well I know its +6 local time here

I can hear two announcers while the music stops playing (like it was bleeding from her board)

The signal can be heard all the way in arizona and canada when i checked it. (teleportation by using a site called DXTUNERS)

-Rob
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Hmmmm, that actually sounds interesting now. Perhaps it was bleedover from one of their Soviet era boards! I tend to doubt that Radio Reloj would be causing interference in a place like AZ.

Florida (except Pensacola) is currently in the Eastern Standard Time zone, which is UTC -5. So, when it's 00:00 UTC (also known to some as Greenwich Mean Time or GMT), it's 7:00 pm (19:00) in the EST. It's during "daylight savings time" when things get harder to calculate as most eastern states go to UTC -4, but parts of Latin America do not. Not to mention that Canada and the UK (as British Summer Time - when they are NOT on GMT) go to daylight time on a different weekend than we do. A subject for a different thread, though......
 
another factor is this was done early in the morning.
i forgot UTC is the standard.

does anyone know if 5.900 was used for another station? I know they used WWV 5.000 Khz.

-rob
 
BRNout said:
Florida (except Pensacola) is currently in the Eastern Standard Time zone, which is UTC -5......Not to mention that Canada and the UK...go to daylight time on a different weekend than we do.
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More of Florida than just Pensacola is on Central time. You can add
Fort Walton Beach, Eglin AFB and Panama City.

The ET/CT zone line for the most part follows the Apalachicola River
which is at approx. 85W longitude, then detours (the zone line, not
the river) through what appears to be a swamp on its way to the Gulf.

Canada begins DST the same time (second Sunday in March) as the USA,
the UK and all the EU folks do it on the last Sunday in March. I think it's
safe to say that the airline industry and its lobbyists will not contribute
to any subsequent political campaigns of the two guys in Congress--
Upton and Markey--who screwed up daylight saving time.
 
robfwb said:
another factor is this was done early in the morning.
i forgot UTC is the standard.

does anyone know if 5.900 was used for another station? I know they used WWV 5.000 Khz.

-rob
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if im not mistaking 5900Khz is shortwave broadcast.

but i remember them counting stations (allways in spanish) they used to jam a shortwave staion i listend to few years back around 9330Khz and i have heard them "counting" on the cb band listend to a week of it on 27.2050 back in 1990
 
well this sounded like it was coming from her board just by how i was hearing it. do you know what5.900 is?

(leaking sucks)

-Rob
 
caught a counter on 1710am this morning yes 1710am broadcast running lsb this time it was a russian counter
 
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