aka The Lincolnshire Poacher
Welcome to the E03 - The Lincolnshire Poacher Emulator
"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 NOTE: This emulator is purely for educational and entertainment purposes only. It should never be broadcasted which includes radio frequencies, telegraphy, or similar. It also has no encryption techniques and is purely generating random numbers and so has no meaning.
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 indentification (or tuning) signal before the main broadcast. It's designation as E03 is based on research and classifaction by a team of enthusiasts who catalogue known and discovered Number Stations.
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 it 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.
Priyom is an international organization intending to research and bring to light the mysterious reality of intelligence, military and diplomatic communication via shortwave radio: numbers stations. Visit them here at priyom.org.
Audio extracted from recordings from The Conet Project:
The Conet Project on SoundCloud.
I hope you enjoy this emulator and relive the mysterious world of the Lincolnshire Poacher!