Whilst browsing through different tasks that I could do, I stumbled upon this one. I was unfamiliar with the term "number station" so naturally, I followed the link given to find out what it was. This is what wikipedia said:
"Numbers stations are shortwave radio stations of uncertain origin. They generally broadcast voices reading streams of numbers, words, letters (sometimes using a radio alphabet), tunes or Morse code.

The voices that can be heard on these stations are often mechanically generated. They are in a wide variety of languages, and the voices are usually women's, though sometimes men's or children's voices are used.

Evidence supports popular assumptions that the broadcasts are channels of communication used to send messages to spies. This has not been publicly acknowledged by any government that may operate a numbers station, but in one case, Cuban numbers station espionage has been publicly prosecuted in a United States federal court..."

Morse code? Female voices? Cuban espionage? Why, this peaked my interest in every way!

My next task was to find something 'creepy' to broadcast so I decided to find the most cult like chanting that I had ever been exposed to...

Enter Catlin Gabel Upper School: Every year students of all levels of High School are subject to 'recitations' where they must memorize and recite in class a previously assigned text and then be subject to the critiques of their peers and are then graded by their teachers. This would not be nearly as creepy if it were structured more like, say a debate class, or a theater class, where each student learns a different piece and recites it separately with a unique interpretation, but alas, it is not so. While there are the occasional solo recitations, more often then not the entire class, and in some instances the entire school is asked to perform the same recitation. Again, you may wonder why this is creepy? Well take a look at the more infamous recitations required of Catlin Gabel students...
Freshman year: The first five lines of Homer's The Odyssey, in it's original Greek
Sophomore year: Ceadmons Hymn, in it's original Early English; The first 18 lines of The Canterbury Tales General Prologue by Geoffrey Chaucer, in it's original Middle English
All Four Years: The King James version of Paul's First letter to the Corinthians Chapter 13.

Now imagine, you sit in a public lounge minding your own business when you over-hear some members of the grade below you practicing a familiar text. You haven't looked at this text for literally a year now but still the words come leaping to your mind, so you find yourself joining in and quickly realize that you are not alone. By line 8 the majority of the people sitting in the room with you have joined in, be they sophomores, juniors or seniors, until even those students who failed the recitation when they were sophomores have joined into the choir. We finish swiftly, all remembering to emphasize the enjambment between lines 15 and 16, only to be met with the proud applause of the 10th grade English teacher who was standing in the hallway the entire time. All this, you later realize, has just occurred in a dead language. We have proudly re-defined 'cult'.

But back to the task at hand, now that I knew what to say, I had to find the proper way to say it. Naturally, I was partial to using Morse Code, but I felt that simply using Morse Code translators from the internet would be kind of cheap, and I also wanted to try my hand at these 'number codes' so I settled upon doing half of the texts in Morse Code, and the other half in my own number code. Coming up with a number code came pretty easily to me, I started with a handful of my favorite numbers: 3, 7, and 13. I then planned to use these numbers in turn, in coordination to a letter from the alphabet, and then add itself to itself (A:3 B:7 C:13 D:6 E:14 F:26 etc.). I found that this led me to having multiple letters for the same number, so realizing that all the numbers previously chosen were prime, I went with the trend and added 17 and 23 to the sequence.

I then set out on the long and tedious process of translating the first five lines of the Odyssey and Caedmons Hymn.


At this point in the task, I had four (4) audio files in eitheir Morse Code or Number Code, so I had all the amunition that I required, at that I needed was a weapon. Naturally I looked to the internet for assistance. I lacked equipment to create a real radio station, and I quickly realized that there was no way to create an online radio station without paying a monthly fee of some sort, so I settled upon creating web pages and posting the audio files for all to listen to and be inspired by.
N.B. The Morse Code at the top of the page says: "SF0.org join us" and the Number Code above the sound clips says: "The verb to be cripples your prose" (It's probably best you don't ask)

Yay for not knowing how to actually put in links and thus forcing you to copy the web addresses and pasting them into your browser!

Page: http://www.freewebs.com/theverbtobe/index.htm

Unfortunatly, I quickly realized that this did not in fact guarantee that people would hear my files, or even see my site at all, so I set out to advertise to as many random people as possible. I got myself listed on the 'freeweb' directory and taged it to show up on various search engines. I then went into the freeweb comunity and started friending strangers like a 7th grader with a myspace. I searched for and friended people with interests in number codes, number stations, morse code, Cuba, the bible, music, books, cats, and friends; anyone who had x, xx, xxx, or the numbers 3, 7, 13, 17 or 23 in their display names, and everyone registered s living in the state of Ohio. I also placed a link of it on my facbook and myspace so all my non-player friends could be a part of it.

Sure enough, within only a few hours my 'number station' had recived a handfull of visitiors

Three visitors, each hung around for about three minutes, presumably listening to at least snipits of my number station ramblings. Sadly, no comments have been left.