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Simon Mason

1962 (unconfirmed) · British shortwave listener; author of Secret Signals: The Euronumbers Mystery (1991)

Author of Secret Signals; early numbers-station researcher

Timeline - Mason in the record

3 referenced events from the UVB-76 - The Buzzer archive.

1991 Publishes Secret Signals

British monitor Simon Mason publishes 'Secret Signals: The Euronumbers Mystery', an early catalogue of European numbers stations by their tunes and voices, the Lincolnshire Poacher, Swedish Rhapsody, Papa November, and to insist, patiently, that they were real.

2010 Puts the mystery online

Mason's research is online, attested from 2010, a long-running web resource on numbers stations. His work bridges the pre-internet listening community and the global monitoring networks to come.

2010 The listener vindicated

Decades after Mason first insisted these signals were genuine spy broadcasts, court cases and declassified files prove him right. The patient hobbyist, dismissed as a conspiracy theorist, turns out to have been simply listening carefully.

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