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<p>Basstation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincolnshire_Poacher_(numbers_station)</p> <hr /> <div>The Lincolnshire Poacher was the nickname of a mysterious, powerful shortwave numbers station that used two bars from the English folk song &quot;The Lincolnshire Poacher&quot; as an interval signal. The radio station was believed to be operated by the British Secret Intelligence Service and emanated from the island of Cyprus.[1] Amateur direction finding had linked it with the Royal Air Force base at Akrotiri, Cyprus, where several curtain antennas had been identified as being its transmitter.[2] It consisted of an electronically-synthesised English-accented female voice reading groups of 5 numbers: e.g. '3-9-7-1-5'. The final number in each group was spoken with a lifted voice. It is likely that the station was used to communicate to undercover agents operating in other countries (known as illegals), to be decoded using a one-time pad.[3]<br /> <br /> An Asian numbers station of identical format is believed to be broadcast from Guam, and nicknamed &quot;Cherry Ripe&quot;. It uses several bars from the English folk song of the same name as its interval signal.[3][4]<br /> <br /> As of July 2008 the Lincolnshire Poacher seems no longer to be active, although its sister station Cherry Ripe has continued to be as of September 9, 2008.[3]</div>

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