Hello and welcome! We are The Numbers Stations Research and Information Center, a project that is dedicated to the research, information gathering, and publishing about numbers stations.  We also focus on military stations, and other shortwave radio phenomena.  These stations provide important info on the Russian and US military, intelligence, and radio history.

We believe that information about intelligence activity on the radio waves must be freely available. Our goal is to research, publish, and popularize shortwave radio and numbers stations worldwide.  This also helps to clear up any misinformation that might appear for these topics. Our team works at many places across the world.  We regularly follow and analyze the events in the shortwave radio spectrum and beyond.

The amount of information on this site can be overwhelming. For newer listeners, an explanation about numbers stations can be difficult to find. We recommend reading our introduction page for a detailed explanation, and how to get started.  Beginners are always welcome.

Join the Numbers Stations & Shortwave Community!

The Numbers Stations Listeners Starter Guide is dedicated for people who want to start listening to transmissions on shortwave radio.  There’s also many guides on how each individual station works, and whether or not it’s still active.  Since stations usually broadcast on a schedule, we can even predict the next time one will start up!

Everyone can be a part of the NSRIC team! If you have an interest in contributing, then please send us a message through the discord channel or contact us by email.  You can help our team by posting your recordings in our database or sharing our YouTube channel.