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| name = "TyroleanGongs" Musicor Station"Chimes"

| arealogo = [[Chartres]], [[France]]{{listen

| frequencyfilename = Gong 6.425numbers and 6station.660 [[MHz]]ogg

| airdatetitle = Gongs or Chimes numbers station

| owner = [[ServiceNational dePeople's documentationArmy]] extérieure et de contre-espionnage|SDECE(speculated)<br/>[[Stasi]] (speculated)

The '''TyroleanGongs''' Musicor Station'''Chimes''' was a believed FrenchGerman [[Shortwave radio|shortwave]] [[numbers station]] that transmitted from [[ChartresZeesen]] in the [[Centre-Val de LoireBrandenburg]] region, of [[FranceEast Germany]],<ref name="InterferencesSecretSignals">{{Citecite magazinebook |worklast="Interférences"Mason |datefirst=Fall 1975Simon |issuedate=31991 |title="TyroleanSecret MusicSignals Station"- The Euronumbers Mystery |pageurl=9http://www.simonmason.karoo.net/page33.html|url-status=dead |location= |publisher= |isbn=0-936653-28-0 |archive-url=https://priyomweb.archive.org/mediaweb/24497820190527100624/interferences_3_fall_1975_espionnage_et_radiohttp://www.pngsimonmason.karoo.net/page33.html |archive-date= 27 May 2019}}</ref>, between the early 1970's until late09 1975May 1990. The station played several [[folk music]] songs by German [[yodeller]] [[Franzl Lang]], prior towould broadcastingbroadcast one or several coded messages, and a music-box rendition of "[[The Internationale]]". The station was of unknown origindaily during theits time it wasoperational broadcastinglife, until a French magazine, Interférences, claimed in their Autumn 1975 issue thatwith the stationmessages wasbeing operatedread byout theusing Frenchan intelligenceEast service,German [[Service de documentation extérieure et de contre"Sprach-espionnage|SDECE]].<refMorse name=Generator"Interferences"/>. Shortly after this magazine was published, the station ceased broadcasting.

The station, givenwhich took its nickname duefrom toits thedistinctive yodelling music played[[interval during its broadcastssignal]], would beginbegan broadcasting onin Saturdaythe andearly Sunday1970s. eachIt weekwould broadcast daily, starting at 1118:3000[[UTC]] on 3.258 MHz, withand threecontinuing songsto playedbroadcast bya themessage Germanevery yodeller,30 [[Franzlminutes Lang]]until 23:30UTC.<ref name="ENIGMApriyom">{{Cite magazine |work="E.N.I.G.M.A Newsletter" |date=1993 |issue=3 |title= Tyrolean Music Station |page=5cite web|url=https://ia902906.us.archivepriyom.org/3number-stations/itemsgerman/enigma_newsletters/newsletter-3g03|title=G03|publisher=Priyom.pdf#page=6org}}</ref>. FollowingThe this,broadcasts thewould start with a taped interval signal of chimes from a Church bell or [[Carrierclock wave|carriertower]], wouldwhich remainwas silentover untilthe life of the station. 11:55UTCOver the years that this tape was used for the interval signal, whenthe atape music-boxwore renditionand stretched, distorting the sound of the firstbells sevenused. notes<ref ofname="SecretSignals"/>. [[socialist]]On anthemthe hour or half-hour, a recorded female voice, created from a [[Thespeech Internationalesynthesis|speech synthesised]] "Sprach-Morse Generator", would playalert the intended recipients of the message, increasingand give them the amount of five-figure groups of numbers in speedtheir untilmessage. 12:00Each recipient would then receive their message, whenprior ato livethe chimes sounding one more time.<ref name="mason">{{cite web|url=http://www.simonmason.karoo.net/page12page73.html|title=G1G3 TyrolStasi|last=Mason|first=Simon|date=|accessdate=|archive-url=httphttps://web.archive.org/web/2019041319400020180727132913/http://www.simonmason.karoo.net/page12page73.html|archive-date=1327 AprilJuly 20192018|url-status=dead}}</ref> or taped<ref name="priyom general">{{cite web|url=https://priyom.org/number-stations/german/g01|title=G01|publisher=Priyom.org}}</ref>The announcerstation would, speakingalso in German, call out several names, and read codedbroadcast messages inon theSaturday form of groups of five numbers. These messages were suspected to be sent to intelligence agents within the [[Eastern Bloc]]morning, toat be10:00UTC decodedon using a [[one-time pad]]5.<ref410 name="priyom sdece">{{cite web|url=https://priyomMHz.org/blog/long-lost-evidence-shows-g01-run-by-french-sdece|title=Long-lost evidence shows G01 run by French SDECE|date=14 March 2020|publisher=Priyom.org}}</ref>

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