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Originally Posted by mr_fixer
Ya know, that makes sense. I've heard countless "numbers stations" but this is the first MCW station I've heard, and since i can't copy code, it never dawned that they could be sending numbers. Wow you'd think there would be easier ways for spies to talk to each other than dah dit dah etc.
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Those dits and dahs are much easier to copy than speech during severe noise conditions. Ham radio in the past was often the mode of emergency communication during stormy weather when telephone had conked out. Lightning crashes from thunderstorms can make speech very difficult to impossible to copy. Tornadoes produce a hash that can render communication by speech out of the question. The dits and dahs can often get through the natural interference (qrn; atmospherics) when speech cannot.