"Tyrolean Music Station"
Late night posting, I know. For awhile now I've been reading intensively up on the Cold War, because I'm such a history nerd. It's now become my favorite period of history. But something that has recently piqued my interest is numbers stations. I've known of their existence for years, and heard the famous ones, UVB-76, that infamous "Buzzer", the Lincolnshire Poacher, the Swedish Rhapsody, and others, but this one I find interesting because of the ambiguity of it's origins. The Tyrolean Music Station, or G01, was a Cold War era numbers Station operated by France, although reading up on comments on the video, I'm conflicted on where it came from. The poster said it was operated by the Stasi, East Germany's infamous secret police, but commenters say it was France's external intelligence agency, SDECE (now defunct). Now that the background is out of the way, the station structure itself consisted of an incredibly German backdrop, the average radio hobbyist wouldn't have guessed. Typically songs that appeared were German yodeling songs (by the famous yodeler Franzl Lang), or German beer drinking songs. Seven notes from the communist anthem "Die Internationale", (The International), played about five times. Names were then read, and then repeated, and then "Achtung", (Attention), was spoken twice, then five figure message groups were read out, often numbers or cryptic phrases. An example from the video is something so simple as "Helmut greets Franz", among other things. The outro consisted of "Ende" repeated twice. In the video however, the phrase "Auf Wiedersehen" (or possibly "Auf Wiederhören") is spoken. Both are goodbyes. It then cut to more German yodeling music. An interesting and lesser-known numbers station, but definitely one worth checking out. https://youtu.be/FT898QCAVhI