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The ghostly radio station that no one claims to run
Zaria Gorvett, 2017. BBC Future, 1 August 2017 (republished 15 July 2020).
Feature on the Buzzer and numbers stations. Quotes David Stupples, a signals intelligence specialist at City, University of London, that "there's absolutely no information in the signal", and his reasons for rejecting the Dead Hand and ionospheric-sounding explanations: the station does not change frequency with the time of day as a guaranteed long-range link would, and ionospheric sounders sound nothing like it.
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Gorvett, Z. (2017). The ghostly radio station that no one claims to run. BBC Future, 1 August 2017 (republished 15 July 2020). https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170801-the-ghostly-radio-station-that-no-one-claims-to-run
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Gorvett, Zaria. “The ghostly radio station that no one claims to run.” BBC Future, 1 August 2017 (republished 15 July 2020) (2017).