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All of that tracks with what I have logged. K7RADIO nails the specs, Ed_Larkin the history and the Conet shift, QRP_Quentin why the format is what it is, K4STK the logging discipline. And Otto and Sal hit the same core thing from opposite ends: the station is straightforward, but the experience of monitoring it is genuinely strange, and that is worth being honest about without inflating it. So where are we. The Lincolnshire Poacher exists. It broadcasts groups of digits in English on known frequencies at regular times. It is almost certainly one-way traffic to people who hold the matching pads. Who runs it, we do not know -- British, the accent and the tune suggest, but that is inference. We have documented facts and educated guesses, and the gap between them is where the mystery actually lives. That is probably where it stays.