Different Frequencies
A radio, pulsing to the beat of this frequency... Cardiovascular sound waves and the blood oozes from the speakers. I’m so incredibly tuned in, but the other…
Chances
“Dispatch, this is Kilo Station, how copy?” I wait a few moments but all I get in response is static. I try a few more times, but all I manage to raise is more…
The New Thing
Once the centerpiece of Saturday night dinner parties, I now rule of a kingdom of dust and worn memories. I used to fill these halls with music, laughter, and…
The Shakedown
Sitting in a unfamiliar house all we could see what the whites of each others eyes and the blue illumination of the candle. The antique radio played, it was as…
Thump Thump.
The floor began to shake as he skyrocketed the volume. The vibration stimulated his brain, touching every emotion inside of him. The neighbors will kill him…
Two
They loomed out at him through the dimly lit space. Frightening looking, a fact that was only amplified by the dark music flowing in the background. The…
To The East
The radio station began to fade out, turning to low static. I played with the dial, finding only fuzz, and eventually turned the radio off. The sky was…
Artifacts
The silver drone looked like a sleeping porcupine, festooned with bent antennae and cracked satellite dishes. In this eternal night beyond the static of life…
Codebreakers
Nancy asked him how that was possible, since the stations were thought to use codes called “one-time pads”. Essentially, these are code systems that are used…
New Star Broadcasting
Katsuhara lived on Honshu, the Japanese island. He stumbled onto our little group via a Google search on a Thursday afternoon a couple of months back but had…
ENIGMA M10
Nancy’s phone was encountering superior reception now, and I was able to talk to her in clarity. She reiterated her question: Was the M10 station really…
Phone Messages
When I got back inside, I saw that there were several messages on my phone. Jean-Martin called back first, asking if I’d had the same east-west frustration…
Directional Instinct
I grabbed my signal surveyor and dashed outside. It was about four feet tall and constructed out of a wood frame wish some simple radio equipment wired to it…
8BY
We soon had our requisite third participant. Jean-Martin called while I was on the phone with Withers, the annoying call waiting interruption blotting out part…
Woodpecker
I heard a strange warbling sound coming from a rarely-used part of the shortwave spectrum. Intrigued, I took down the time and frequency of the signal, then…
Counting
My mind was racing. Were the reappearance of the Poacher and the noise behind the Buzzer related? And what were they talking about over in Povarovo, anyway…
The Buzzer
It was about an hour later when the phone on my desk rang. I was busy telling everybody about the return of the Lincolnshire Poacher, but I stopped my Internet…
Resurgence
The last anyone had ever heard the Poacher was on July 29, 2008. Based out of Cyprus--that was figured out when a few amateur radio operators did some…
Shortwave
…6 9 1 Echo Alpha. 6 9 1 Echo Alpha. 6 9 1 Echo Alpha… There’s an invisible worlds out there beyond the medium-wave. Tune into the shortwave and you can hear…
We interrupt your musical pleasure
The night shift at the radio station was quiet. The “Night Owls”, as they were called, settled in for a night of easy tempo Rock. Davis, or First Frank his…