Biography

Hello and welcome to my page.

I was a shortwave listener since my high school electronics class in the early 70's. (WA4282SWL was issued 12-FEB-2016)

I used to listen to the Numbers Stations a lot in their heyday. My favorite station was Cynthia E05 "Counting Station". I also liked listening to the shortwave broadcaster's interval signals as well. I still like to listen to strange and intriguing utility signals and oddities now and then, however I have seen that there is a lot less activity on the shortwave bands nowadays than there used to be.

In 2001 I created a webpage inspired by the Numbers Stations and it is to the best of my imagination of how they might possibly operate:

https://msfosella.wixsite.com/redherringcipher

A Technician class amateur radio license was granted on 07-11-2025 (KR4FEE). I received my General Class license effective on 11-19-2025.

https://www.qrzcq.com/call/KR4FEE

Thank you for visiting my page.

73

Equipment

On 06/12/2026 I strung up a 100 foot doublet antenna (courtesy Chris, W2JBL) about 15 to 20 feet above ground. It is fed with 450-ohm window-line coming into an MFJ-974H manual transmatch. From there the RG8X runs into an IC-7300. I also have an JRC-NRD-525. (Past receivers: Knight Kit Star Roamer, Hallicrafters S-40B, Realistic DX-200.)