This is a copy of The Numbers Racket CD-ROM, which I prepared back in 1998. I am presenting it here, unedited, for historical purposes. Obviously most if not all of the information is 'out of date' today, but think of it as a snapshot of what the Spy Numbers scene was like in the late 1990s.

Like what you see here? Help support my work by taking a look at my software , and buy something of interest :) It's all available for download before purchase, so you can try it out.

Enjoy!

Four Note Rising Scale

Four Note Rising Scale

One of the many Numbers Stations to have ceased transmissions, this station was heard as early as 1971, and appears to have made it's last broadcast in April, 1990. The station got it's name from the four rising musical notes played on an electronic organ for five minutes before the hour. This was followed by a German YL (recorded voice) reading off the headings for the messages to be sent. The headings were sent for five minutes. For example: 

39592/05 93782/08 48383/13 63483/17
03839/21 94932/24 87383/28 93032/31
19393/34 55939/37 63893/42 39483/46
The / symbol was spoken as "trennung". The number after the slash is the number of minutes after the hour that the given message would begin.
Each message was preceed by "achtung", the heading, and the number of five figure groups to be sent. The transmission ended with the word "ende".

Schedule used by the Four Note Rising Scale:

3217 kHz: 1800, 1900, 2000, 2100 UTC
3820 kHz: 2000, 2100, 2200, 2300 UTC
5820 kHz: 1000, 1100, 1200 UTC
6450 kHz: 0800, 0900, 1000 UTC
Apparently, during summer, the station kept to British Summer Time. , UTC plus one hour. Each block of messages was first sent on 3217 kHz, and then repeated on 3820 kHz two hours later. Likewise for 5820 and 6450 kHz.


Listen to the station Listen to the Four Note Rising Scale (ENIGMA G8)

Copyright 1998 Chris Smolinski. All Rights Reserved.
Last Update: June 17, 1998.

This is a copy of The Numbers Racket CD-ROM, which I prepared back in 1998. I am presenting it here, unedited, for historical purposes. Obviously most if not all of the information is 'out of date' today, but think of it as a snapshot of what the Spy Numbers scene was like in the late 1990s.

Like what you see here? Help support my work by taking a look at my software , and buy something of interest :) It's all available for download before purchase, so you can try it out.