The continued operation of numbers stations is likely to keep the transmission method relevant for potential future use or to keep monitoring agencies occupied with dummy messages.

“In which case, that's pretty smart because that's just you're not showing your hand like where all of a sudden a an inactive radio station suddenly starts up again indicates activity or it's been doing the same thing for 10 years and on year seven it actually transmitted a real secret message”

Numbers stations are likely government-backed transmissions used to send secret, one-way messages to spies embedded in foreign countries.

“suggests that yeah, everybody's right that these are governmentbacked transmissions used to communicate anonymously and in one direction to spies embedded in foreign countries.”