"When I was bound apprentice in famous Lincolnshire,
I serv'd my master truly, for nearly seven odd year,
Till I took up to poaching, as you shall quickly hear.
Oh, 'tis my delight on a shining night, in the season of the year."
IMPORTANT WARNING: This emulator is for educational and entertainment purposes only. Never broadcast this emulator using any medium including radio frequencies, telegraphy, or similar and it can't be used as a means of encryption.
E03 was a numbers station and was so named after the 2 bar tune taken from an old folk song called 'The Lincolnshire Poacher' - which was played as an interval (or tuning) signal before the main broadcast.
Much and little is known about number stations, as no government has acknowledged their existence or operation. What we think we know about E03 is that at one time it broadcasted from RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus and stopped transmissions around July 2008. E03 also had a sister station in the southern hemisphere, E03a, which used the folk song 'Cherry Ripe' as its interval signal and was last reported in December 2009.
This emulator was created as a bit of fun to cast light on the mysterious world of Number Stations.
More information about numbers stations can be found at priyom.org.
Audio extracted from recordings from the Conet Project: https://soundcloud.com/the-conet-project/sets/the-conet-project
We hope you enjoy this emulator!
To run this emulator you must download the package, extract and install python from https://www.python.org/downloads/
After installation:
run in terminal: pip install pygame
then to run the emulator: python LincolnshirePoacher.py
The emulator will also print out the message into a txt file called numbers_log.txt