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Lincolnshire Poacher (numbers station)
"The Lincolnshire Poacher" was a powerful shortwave numbers station that transmitted by Cyprus from the mid-1970s to June 2008. The station gained its commonly known name as it uses bars from the English folk song "The Lincolnshire Poacher" as an interval signal. The radio station was believed to be operated by the British Secret Intelligence Service and emanated from the island of Cyprus.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=E03 The LincolnShire Poacher )〕 Amateur direction finding linked it with the Royal Air Force base at Akrotiri, Cyprus, where several curtain antennas had been identified as being its transmitter.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = Numbers and Oddities )〕 It consisted of an electronically synthesised English-accented female voice reading groups of five numbers: e.g. '0-2-5-8-8'. The final number in each group was spoken at a higher pitch. It is likely that the station was used to communicate to undercover agents (spies) operating in other countries, to be decoded using a one-time pad.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 author = Simon Mason )〕
An Asian numbers station of identical format is believed to be broadcast from Australia, and nicknamed "Cherry Ripe". It uses several bars from the English folk song of the same name as its interval signal.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = Spynumbers )〕 Cherry Ripe continued to be on-air until December 2009.〔(Hundred forty-seventh edition of the N&O column / Spooks newsletter )〕
== History ==
The precise date that the Lincolnshire Poacher began broadcasting is unknown; however, it is estimated that the broadcasts started around the early to mid-1970s. While numbers stations have existed since World War I (making them some of the earliest radio transmissions) numbers stations such as Lincolnshire Poacher began appearing during the Cold War, when nations such as the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom needed to send messages discreetly to their operatives in other countries. However, after the Cold War, the number of numbers stations greatly decreased.〔 The Lincolnshire Poacher remained operating after the end of the Cold War, and continued to be broadcast into the next two decades.〔
In July 2008, the Lincolnshire Poacher stopped broadcasting. The last recorded transmission of the station was on 29 June 2008.〔 It is believed that the station's sister station, Cherry Ripe, began to send broadcasts that used to be intended to be sent over the Lincolnshire Poacher station.〔 This is believed to be true because the "Cherry Ripe" station used a very similar call signal, and broadcast its messages in 200 sets of five-number IDs.〔
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