numbers station

English

Noun

numbers station (plural numbers stations)

1. (radio, espionage) A shortwave radio station characterized by unusual broadcasts, often of artificially generated voices reciting streams of numbers, words, etc., supposedly coded messages.

Translations

shortwave radio station

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 數字電台／数字电台 (shùzì diàntái)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: numeroasema
• French: station de nombres f
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: 乱数放送 (らんすうほうそう, ransū hōsō), 暗号放送 (あんごうほうそう, angō hōsō), ナンバーステーション (nanbā sutēshon)
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: номерная радиостанция (nomernaja radiostancija), числовая радиостанция (čislovaja radiostancija)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• numbers station on Wikipedia.Wikipedia