Numbers stations broadcasting from Poland

While searching for information about numbers stations, I came across several reports about stations broadcasting from Poland.

Here is a report from one of the users of the RadioPolska.pl forum:

I personally heard such a station in Polish a few years ago, on 4875 kHz, if I remember correctly. It was a woman's voice, not a robot, reading columns of numbers with a clearly impatient voice. Among them was the codename (?) "Abkhazia."

It often happens that a numbers station broadcasts messages in a language other than the one indicated by its established location. This is the case with a station broadcasting in German from Poland. This numbers station broadcast for over 30 years and ceased operations in 1997, when Poland suffered the flood of the century. Recently, however, reports have emerged that the station has resumed broadcasting on the frequencies 8188 kHz, 6507 kHz, 5748 kHz, 6200 kHz, 5340 kHz, 5748 kHz, 9457 kHz, 7584 kHz, 5535 kHz, 4779 kHz, and 15.1 MHz (the station usually broadcasts on two or three of these frequencies). The station begins its broadcasts with an excerpt from Mantovani's "Swedish Rhapsody," always on the hour. The melody is repeated 23 times, after which a female voice announces:

Achtung! (here several sequences of numbers repeated twice) Ende

A short beep is played three seconds before each broadcast. Recordings of the broadcasts can be found at simsonmason.karoo.net

A numbers station also broadcasts from Poland broadcasting in Russian. The station can be heard on the frequencies 9575 kHz, 14572 kHz, 4783 kHz, 9443 kHz, 9022 kHz, 9610 kHz, 7984 kHz, 6252 kHz, 8544 kHz, 8800 kHz, 5779 kHz, 5782 kHz, 8088 kHz, 4181 kHz, 5535 kHz, 9610 kHz (usually the station broadcasts on two or three of these frequencies), on Mondays also on 10620 kHz and on Tuesdays on 10720 kHz.

Transmissions begin with the spoken message "Wnimanje," followed by "sjem sjem sjem sjem sjem" (77777) repeated several times. Then several numerical sequences are transmitted, and the transmission ends with "77777" repeated several times and the spoken message "konec." Sometimes, perhaps to confuse the listener, additional digits appear within the numerical sequences, e.g., "23456." Very rarely, there are verbal messages between the numerical sequences.

Recordings of the broadcast can be found at simsonmason.karoo.net

In the 1990s, a short Polish-language broadcast was recorded in the Masovia region. However, the broadcasters did not use a synthesizer – the recording features male voices counting from 1 to 10 repeatedly. This suggests the broadcast was broadcast live. Unfortunately, the frequency on which the transmission was transmitted is unknown. Listen to the recording .

While searching for information about numbers stations broadcasting from Poland, I came across an article entitled "Memories of Number Stations" by German-based radio amateur Christian. Here's an excerpt from the article, in which the author describes a numbers station broadcasting from Poland:

The 5815 kHz frequency was also used by the successor station G11. This station was heard regularly for many years at specific times. One of these was Sundays at 1:00 PM UTC. The German version began with Bert Kaempfert's "Night Wonderland," broadcast in its original version (...). The song was played twice, then the single was reversed and the B-side "Dreaming of the Blues" was played twice, followed by the word "Ende" read by a female voice. Other frequencies were also used for broadcasting messages. The programs always began with the same introduction, during which Bert Kaempfert's single was played twice for eight minutes, followed by a female voice with a strong Polish accent, for example:

"Achtung! sechs sieben Strich zwo zwo zwo, sechs sieben Strich zwo zwo zwo, sieben acht vier neun fuenf, sieben acht vier neun fuenf" (67-222, 67-222, 78495, 78495)

Here, the two digits before "Strich" denoted a group of numbers. Each five-digit sequence was repeated twice. The message was followed by "Ich wiederhole" (I repeat), and the message was transmitted again. The transmission ended with the word "Ende." " I only heard the Polish version of this station once. That was in 1977. (...) The frequency was between 2 and 3 MHz; I stopped there because it was strange to hear music on a frequency where no music stations were heard."

They played a recording by the Polish National Song and Dance Ensemble "Mazowsze," titled "Cyt, cyt." When they played it again, I became certain it had to be a numbers station, and I was right: I heard the same voice as in the German version described above, reading the numbers in Polish. The way the numbers were read was very unusual and therefore extraordinary: a high-pitched voice intoned the first four digits, the last number intoned lower, so you might think you were hearing a woman singing the numbers. It must have been a natural voice, because there were occasional brief pauses during the recitation of five-digit groups—it sounded as if the woman was unsure whether the sequence of numbers she was saying was correct.