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> standard holiday shortwave receiver A what now? :) Are you sure that is a lot harder to explain away than literally any computer gizmo looking object? (Today

• wkat4242 4y ago
  > (Today, not in the 70ies) Exactly, numbers stations were a big thing in the 70s-80s. In those days carrying a SW receiver was pretty standard and almost every country had a world service radio station that people would actually listen to. These days using the internet makes a lot more sense yes, both for tourists and spies. Because spies want to be where the mainstream is to avoid detection.