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Title: Listen: Secret Libya Psyops
Post by: Fansome on April 01, 2011, 2126 UTC

Message: 1
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 07:07:57 -0400
From: Richard Cuff <rdcuff@gmail.com>
To: Discussion list for the Winter SWL Fest <swlfest@hard-core-dx.com>
Subject: [Swlfest] Listen: Secret Libya Psyops,   Caught by Online
   Sleuths | Danger Room | Wired.com
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A Hilversum, Holland (now where do I know that town...) "radio geek"
monitors airborne military operations in Libya...mentions scanning /
VHF / UHF
 
Rich C
 
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/03/secret-libya-psyops/#

Title: Re: Listen: Secret Libya Psyops
Post by: Zoidberg on April 02, 2011, 0029 UTC

I've listened to recordings of those messages from 6877 kHz.  They're unnerving, mostly because of the dry, detached tone.  The vocal delivery is little different from NOAA weather or aviation/maritime weather transmissions, other than being delivered by human voices rather than computer voices.  Somehow that makes the message even more ominous, hearing a human instructing Libyan military personnel to abandon their posts with the same detachment as if they were saying in the same breath "and tomorrow will be cool and sunny.  Hope you're still alive to enjoy it."