Ian — Shortwave radio voice

Shortwave radio voice, distant, staticky, and drifting

Prompt: Meet a male voice heard over shortwave radio—distant, thin, and drifting in and out of a wash of static and atmospheric hiss, a signal bouncing across the ionosphere from far away. The tone is faint and band-limited, fading and surging, wrapped in the ghostly whistle of a long-range transmission. There's a lonely, middle-of-the-night, reaching-across-continents quality to it. It sounds like a voice found by chance while turning a dial through the crackling dark.

Script: This is a broadcast on the shortwave band. To anyone who may be listening. The numbers for tonight are as follows: 7, 4, 9, 2, 1. Repeat. 7, 4, 9, 2, 1. We are still here. We are still transmitting. If you can hear this, you are not alone. Signal is fading.