Secret Transmission Detected from North Korea [Have you heard anything unusual on shortwave bands?]

It is a Cuban number station, Enigma list HM-01, assigned on 18 Nov 2012.

It is a hybrid mixed-mode variant of Cuban XVII Family. Each broadcast consists of alternating SK01 and V02a repeating sequences.

NK doesn’t transmit in a Spanish language numbers format.

Totally agree. This is an example of a conspiracy 'click to donate'website going overboard on a misidentification of a Cuban transmission. That is the reason why 'Tim in the Midwest' can hear the transmission so well.

This is what Tim is picking up. It is HM01 from Cuba.

You Tube Cuban HM01 recording

Ana Montes was a Cuban Spy that was caught with details of her Cuban controllers number station handling on her laptop and other computer equipment. The mistakes in handling the communications which linked Montes to the Cuban broadcasts and led to her conviction are highlighted in the following link.

Link for Ana Montes Affidavit

The FBI has determined that the precise same numbers, in the precise same order, were broadcast on February 6, 1999, at AM frequency 7887 kHz, by a woman speaking Spanish, who introduced the broadcast with the words "Attencion! Attencion!" The frequency used in that February 1999 broadcast is within the frequency range of the shortwave radio observed in MONTES's residence on May 25, 2001.

Link for FBI website article on Ana Montes

You Tube Cuban Lady recording

Links to details and schedule for Cuban HM01

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Matt, Here is another example of the Cuban transmission picked up on a simple Short Wave receiver. The person that recorded it is in Puerto Rico. Simply a misidentification by a radio enthusiast and hyped by a click to donate conspiracy website.

You Tube Cuban HM01 recording picked up on a simple short wave receiver in Puerto Rico

The female spanish ladies voice is generated by the following machine. These were built in East Germany and supplied to the Communist Bloc. The East Germans used them for their number station transmissions in English and German. Examples were found after the collapse of the Berlin Wall in Stasi buildings.

East German built automated machine used within the Communist Bloc

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