Establishment
Lights, unused for over a millennium, flickered to life, and the gentle hum of machinery deep within the station began to quietly resume its existence. XJ-399…
A Thorn in Saturn's Side
Antonio spoke. “Those old tourist stations were powered with fusion engines. Our initial views from the ‘scopes identified it as an old DoubleTree. They had a…
In Space No One Can Hear You Fix a Station, but They Can See You
The liquid hydrocarbons were coming down in sheets, but such was the climate on Titan. The dim glow that diffused through the methane fog as if it were…
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…