G1 Tyrolean Music Station  STATUS- INACTIVE Here is the full Tyrolean Music station transmission starting with a music box rendition of the "Internationale", followed by several yodelling songs with the message for Helmut, Kruse and Frank buried in there somewhere. Tyrolean wma    Around 15 minutes of bizarre radio.

From Peter H. MESSAGE CONTAINED IN THE G1 RECORDING at 5:53 min, 9:01 min, and 12:03 min Helmut gruesst Franz! Helmut gruesst Franz! Guten Tag! Die Groessen 26 bis 32 passen mir gut. Die Sonne scheint herrlich. Unsere Henne ist dabei, ein Ei zu legen. [Alles Gute! Auf Wiederhoeren!] TRANSLATION: Helmut greets Franz! Helmut greets Franz! Hello! The sizes 26 to 32 fit me well. The sun is shining wonderfully. Our hen is about to lay an egg. [All the best! Goodbye!] Very bizarre, isn't it? As for the speaker of the message, his German sounds quite natural, but with an unusual accent - he is possibly from Alsace, which is a part of France.

TYROLEAN MUSIC STATION  News May 2003. From AB, NL.  More information on this station which casts doubt on the description provided by ENIGMA group.  Station was run by the French Service de Documentation Extérieur et de Contre-Espionnage (SDECE). The note says: "Other French clandestine radio stations run by the SDECE were sending personal coded messages to underground agents on the other side of the Iron Curtain. One such SDECE unit broadcast Tyrolean music on 6425 kHz between 1130 and 1140 AM from the Chartres region, but it ceased its activities in 1975 after an article was published in a French magazine specializing in radio matters, called "Interferences". AB is currently trying to locate a copy of this magazine. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here is some additional information from the website of the French DGSE which has been kindly translated by Chris L. in Australia: Radio Transmission At the time of their training course in Cercottes, all the future members of Action Division carry out a minimum two days training course on the use of HF receivers. The training officer advising with the agents the use of prototype receiver of make SONY/GRUNDING for their low price and their very good qualities of reception. During these two days, they learn how to use these types of receiver (in Cercottes training being carried out on Sony radios). In addition to that, a small notebook of red colour containing the secret codes of 5L/C is used. But at the time of operational communications, the code changes with each emission. In addition to the HF bands, the future agents are also trained in the use of standard Inmarsat C (at 1560 GHz) as used by military and civil GPS receiver. For those having chosen the speciality transmission, a longer training can be carried out in the training center at Montargis in Loirets (depending on the National Gendarmerie!) like with the 8th RT. At the time of this training, the agents learn how to use transmitters with escape from frequency, and frequency hopping. They pass also to a certificate of operator all modes (CW inter alia). One of the bands most used by the DGSE in regards to short waves is the 8 MHz band because it acts as a "marine" band. The radio communications are done on HF (high frequency) and in UHF/SHF (satellite). In the world of the radio amateurs they call them the numbers stations, because they are a series of numbers and/or letters, pronounced by digitized voices (by computer) of man or woman. The emissions take place 24h00 on 24h00 (+/--) and in all languages (Russian, French, English, Chinese, etc...). For the reception of the secret messages, the intelligence agent sets up a simple short wave receiver which they will buy in the general public trade. The emissions for the agent are repeated twice per day (or by week) if they were not present for the first emission. Thanks to Chris L.

ENIGMA group description follows:  Thanks to ENIGMA group. Yodelling For The Cause - G1 The Tyrolean Music Station - the archetypal cloak and dagger transmissions, which, now over two decades since its demise, still sends shivers down the spine when heard on tape! Surely some of you remember those jolly German songs of the early 1970s played every weekend at 1130 UTC on 6650/6425kHz. Usually the same three of four German beer-drinking songs (with brass band accompaniment) were broadcast followed by blank carrier until 1159 when an interval signature, seven notes from the "Internationale" took us up to 1159, after which it would speed up with a sense of urgency for the final minute - a warning that messages were impending. On the hour a strident military sounding German male voice would announce several German names. Each name in turn, after a commanding "Achtung!" then received a short message of five figure groups and all would finish with "Ende!" This was the usual format. Sometimes the songs were different, which must have had some meaning to the initiated. Often, this was a warning for messages of a different nature. These took the form of phrases. The same live announcer would greet several named addresses with 'Gutentag! Hans, Adolf, Helmut", etc. and several very odd phrases were then read out to all addresses together, e.g. (translated) "Our hen has laid one egg", "The sunshine has faded", etc. The yodeling would stop abruptly for the announcements, which were repeated twice, again by cutting off the music. After the final repeat he'd bid farewell to his listeners with "Auf wiedesehen!" and the usual number messages would appear on the hour. Technical hitches were frequent - tapes being rewound and set before start time, loud clicks of toggle switches in the "studio", the wrong music being played, then stopped, and sounds of fumbling with tapes being the correct songs appeared, even coughs and sneezes, etc. Signal strength and audio quality were excellent, however, and at times it sounded as if "he" was just behind you! Sometimes the two carriers stayed on after the Saturday broadcast ready for Sunday's transmission, which always carried different messages. An early Monday/Friday evening schedule on lower frequencies also existed, which probably sent repeats. All this coincided with the life of Radio North Sea International, the DDR-funded pirate ship whose real function was far removed from entertainment. Late at night after closedown, their short wave carriers sometimes remained on, and a few tracks of Tyrolean music would be aired in the small hours. RNI's two Swiss directors were Stasi agents, and their company MEBO  provided the timer used in the Lockerbie bomb.

This sound collage relates to the 1970's pirate radio station Radio North Sea International and tries to imply that there was a sinister side to the operation. Was it a front for East German spying activities and were the Swiss owners, Mr Meister and Mr Bollier Stasi agents? Radio North Sea International wma     c.11 mins.

Radio North Sea International DJ Steve Merike dispels Spy ship theory. Steve Merike talks.