It began with cold war Number Stations. Because I have an interest in a wide array of things in life, I learned about number stations once upon a time. Number stations are spots on the radio dial where operators send out information encrypted with a one-time pad cipher (or whatever) over the airwaves to be received and decoded by unknown parties for purposes unknown. This method of not-so-secret / secret communication has been going on from as far back as WW1. And is still going on. I had this relatively useless information squirreled away in my head and I didn't think about it again until the end of 2023. Randomly, I discovered a Netherlands uni website that's set up to let you listen to all kinds of radio transmissions. And it's been amusing ever since. Voices from around the World. Without any radio equipment of my own, I've been able to tune into voices connecting to each other from all over the globe. CQ CQ calling CQ this is... Besides the host of the &#