The Conet Project

[Dave Monroe]

... can't find this particular article online, but there's a review of
The Conet Project: Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations
(Irdial-Discs) in the current Chicago Reader
(http://www.chireader.com/).   From Jeff Economy, "What's the Frequency,
Kenneth?,"  Chicago Reader, Friday, January 12, 2001 [Vol. 30, No. 16],
pp. 28-9, Section One ...

The four-CD set is a mind-boggling collection of dispassionate,
disembodied voices reading lists of numbers and sometimes letters in
many languages, over crashing waves of lush, unfiltered radio static,
occasionally accompanied by perky robotic musical tehmes borrowed from
hell's own ice cream truck.  The collection was first issuesd in 1997 by
a small British label, Irdial-Discs, whose other bog release is a two-CD
collection of the low-frequency radio signals emitted by electromagnetic
phenomena like the northern lights. (28)

... sferics, anyone?  But to continue ...

Numbers stations are a black hole: no matter how much light is shed on
them, none is returned....
    At first listen the set seems as impenetrable as the monolith in
2001, but, eventually, confronted with actual audible evidence of secret
maneuverings that most of us will never, ever be privy to, yo can almost
feel the wash from the black helicopters' rotors on the back of your
neck....
    ... The recordings are a Rosetta stone for the language of deceit, a
fetish aobject for the informationally disenfranchised. (29)

... anyway, for the Conet Project, see ...

http://www.ibmpcug.co.uk/~irdial/conet.htm

... and for Irdial in general ...

http://www.pcug.co.uk/~irdial/

... unfortunately, this comes up in black text on a forest green
background for me, but it does come in in English, French, German and
ASCII ...