Pip
My fascination with radio started when I was quite young. The very
first radio I had, I opened and twiddled until, rather surprisingly to
me, I began hearing things others did not hear on their radios. I had
re-tuned coils and such, and managed to pick up shortwave broadcasts.
My family and friends knew nothing of this, so I was on my own. We had
no internet to do research. I dove in. I spent hours upon hours
listening to WWV's time broadcasts, the Voice of America, strange
engine-like sounds, and even pulsars.
The most interesting thing I heard, though, was a numbers station.
For those who are unfamiliar, I'd recommend you check out:
http://numbers-stations.com
http://irdial.com/conet.htm
Okay, so now you've been filled in. Secret spy stuff. Strange numbers
from all over the world. Typically five-digit numbers, in groups. And
apparently unbreakable.
Around age seven, I began hallucinating. I met one of the three
amigos, Jeffrey, who told me that he knew exactly what those numbers
stations were. They were messages from another planet. Of course. This
made perfect sense, assuming you were crazy, and I was crazy.
This began my very long career of fascination with five-digit numbers,
and the stations on which they are broadcast.
Now that I'm being treated for schizophrenia, I've learned that my
isolation from numbers stations (by not having a shortwave radio) has
been good.
Until I learned what I had long assumed and wished was not true: one
can listen to shortwave radio on the internet.
So now, I am listening to Pip, one of the numbers stations (3756 kHz
USB, if you're interested), the long droning beeps, waiting and
waiting, for the numbers to come.
Do I still believe they come from another planet? Part of me believes
that can't be true. And another part of me knows it to be true. The
hex people of Saturn. So, in case they're reading this... I'm
listening. Let's do this.
