Mysterious Russian Radio Station Goes Offline

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Mysterious Russian Radio Station Goes Offline - Has Been Transmitting Since Early '80s

The mysterious russian shortwave radio "UWB-76", also known as "The Buzzer"...

...just stopped transmission. This is huge, considering there has been almost NO interruption since 1982. It even survived the cold war.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UVB-76
Above link explains the actual radio signal...

Supposedly a dead man's switch, or the NWO's transmission station...

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/06/06/032235/Mysterious-Radio-Station-UVB-76-Goes-Offline

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread579556/pg1

uprising2

Maybe they changed from analog to digital.

squeakyduck

huge thread about these stations on another forum. Intruiging that it just shut down. Alot of them are very creepy. It's the sort of stuff that would keep me awake at night!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McFRonD-sjg&feature=related
If you think the video is creepy the noise makes it worse!

There is one with a little german girl reading out numbers at random. Some of the scariest stuff I've ever experienced!

cullen5998

whats the purpose of any of these stations? I dont know anything about them.

squeakyduck

They were used to send messages to spies and they had a special machine at decoding it. But every broadcast was different.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station#In_popular_culture

I'd hate to be a spy listening to all this stuff all day. I'd be paranoid all the time!

Gillo

squeakyduck wrote: »

huge thread about these stations on another forum. Intruiging that it just shut down. Alot of them are very creepy. It's the sort of stuff that would keep me awake at night!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McFRonD-sjg&feature=related
If you think the video is creepy the noise makes it worse!

There is one with a little german girl reading out numbers at random. Some of the scariest stuff I've ever experienced!

FFS, that needs a health warning, freaky poop

Torakx

squeakyduck wrote: »

huge thread about these stations on another forum. Intruiging that it just shut down. Alot of them are very creepy. It's the sort of stuff that would keep me awake at night!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McFRonD-sjg&feature=related
If you think the video is creepy the noise makes it worse!

There is one with a little german girl reading out numbers at random. Some of the scariest stuff I've ever experienced!

Jebus! dont post stuff like that without a warning haha.
One of the youtube comments made me laugh alot!
"Fcuk it i didnt intend to sleep anyway"

Its not scary for me only for the fact that it might contain subliminals which i ussually avert my eyes from lol

Zombienosh

that is ****ed, reminded me of the ring!

I don't know wheter there is some strange story behind these radio stations but it could be turned into an excellent film?

squeakyduck

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVqaoxxsN7Q

The video is really cool. This is the Sweedish Rhapsody, it's my favourite one. I couldn't think of the name earlier.

It's strange that they used the voice of a little German girl though. Especially since most of these transmissions are scrammed noise based.

It does get a little wierd/scary at the end! (Just a warning to you kids I did scare!)

Torakx

AlcoholicA wrote: »

that is ****ed, reminded me of the ring!

I don't know wheter there is some strange story behind these radio stations but it could be turned into an excellent film?

Ye it could be turned into a film.Especially a big hollywood one if they want to cover up what happened
After all i get told ALOT by some people on this forum that i am being ridiculous because they saw that in a fictional movie.
The suggestion they went to digital was funny but possibly partly true lol

Doge

These things seriously freaky me out.

Ever since my first taste of what a number station sounded like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAMETKvCpnE

jill_valentine

Wilco and The Besnard Lakes have both used bits of the signals for songs too.

Interesting stuff. And f*cking brilliant songs.

Doge

jill_valentine wrote: »

Wilco and The Besnard Lakes have both used bits of the signals for songs too.

Interesting stuff. And f*cking brilliant songs.

Oooo, thanks for the tip!

Ive only listened to The Bernard Lakes for a few minutes and they sound great, like a modern day pink floyd.

Will check out Wilco too,

Sorry for derailing the thread, relevant replies may proceed..........:p

highlydebased

Just copied this from a mailing list I'm on

"S28 (the official ENIGMA designator for UVB-76 or "the buzzer") is still there on 4625/4667 kHz at 2230 UTC on June 6 (Sun) with unchanged strong signal here in good old Germany, Europe.

73"

jill_valentine

Two of the songs with the number signals:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ify-buS9JUU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GanNE5LWF4

Just out of interest. The Besnard Lakes have used Number Signal samples a few times. The Wilco one is notable though - the sample comes from The Conet Project, a reasonably well known compilation of recordings of shortwave Number Signals. The company that made the compilation sued over copyright, but since, technically, the "owners" of the original signals weren't known, I'm not sure their claim could have held up. In any event, the band settled out of court before it was tested. The album is named after the sample used - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, from the NATO phonetic alphabet.

Carry on.

Silverfish

More info on them here , the Conet Project is not something you want to be listening to late at night though.

Very unsettling that The Buzzer went offline

The purpose of the stations is pretty much unknown, but there's a few theories, one is that they are a 'Dead Man's Hand'... if they stop transmitting, then something bad has occurred.

Another is that they are spy stations, and, when used with a one-time pad, transmit messages.

Another is that they are used to calibrate military listening equipment, like huge curtain antennas, (like the Russian Woodpecker)that usually can pick up sounds that are below what most radio equipment can, or might be mistaken for noise, and can apparently hear halfway around the globe if needed. So these need to be kept primed and calibrated, and that's what number stations are for.

My name is URL

Very interesting topic.. thanks for posting it

Magaa

Silverfish wrote: »

More info on them here , the Conet Project is not something you want to be listening to late at night though.

Very unsettling that The Buzzer went offline

The purpose of the stations is pretty much unknown, but there's a few theories, one is that they are a 'Dead Man's Hand'... if they stop transmitting, then something bad has occurred.

Another is that they are spy stations, and, when used with a one-time pad, transmit messages.

Another is that they are used to calibrate military listening equipment, like huge curtain antennas, (like the Russian Woodpecker)that usually can pick up sounds that are below what most radio equipment can, or might be mistaken for noise, and can apparently hear halfway around the globe if needed. So these need to be kept primed and calibrated, and that's what number stations are for.

Ahh that first link scared the crap out of me.

ntlbell

Interesting topic all right, never heard of these before.

I don't really get why it's scary/freaky tho?

Am i missing something

Doge

ntlbell wrote: »

Interesting topic all right, never heard of these before.

I don't really get why it's scary/freaky tho?

Am i missing something

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVqaoxxsN7Q

Thats the one that seems to freak most people out.

ntlbell

waveform wrote: »

Thats the one that seems to freak most people out.

Yeah, I had listened to that one, I think it's pretty relaxing :pac:

Maybe I should have waited till it was 2/3am in the morning on my tod.

Any got any more links to read up on this?

Silverfish

Magaa wrote: »

Ahh that first link scared the crap out of me.

Swedish Rhapsody? There's an ice-cream van here that plays that.
Put me off icecream.

This is where the Buzzer apparently broadcasts from.

Magaa

Silverfish wrote: »

Swedish Rhapsody? There's an ice-cream van here that plays that.
Put me off icecream.

This is where the Buzzer apparently broadcasts from.

Would that place be abandoned? Id imagine its a military place

Yeah scary!, specialy when you keep imagining if you turn around your gonna see the grudge :cool:


Edit: sorry no the scond one is more scary



UVB-76 station



what are those circles?

Ratzo Rizzo

4.625 and 4.667 MHz are both audible here in Co. Tipperary now (1955L).
Also some voice comms on 4.645.35 USB which sounds like they are being intentionally jammed.

My name is URL

Magaa wrote: »

what are those circles?

I think the top one is a compass, but it looks shopped

Magaa

My name is URL wrote: »

I think the top one is a compass, but it looks shopped

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UVB-76
its actually not,

theres a theory ive been reading about necular missiles there and that radio transmission is a failsafe of somesort

IrelandSpirit

AlcoholicA wrote: »

that is ****ed, reminded me of the ring!

I don't know wheter there is some strange story behind these radio stations but it could be turned into an excellent film?

Reminds me of The Ring too! Could be a film in this ...

But man, this is some freaky-sheeeet alright! ... It's kinda surreal though how well it translates into music too ... Maybe that's it? What if it's some old Cold War mind-fukc psyops what's been left running and warped itself into an art-form. Like maybe some soviet spark had the idea to just pump out random messages which mean absolutely nothing. Spy networks on all sides were continually second-guessing themselves anyway, still are ... maybe it began as an attempt to confuse and distract, and further squander resources ...

IrelandSpirit

jill_valentine wrote: »

Two of the songs with the number signals:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ify-buS9JUU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GanNE5LWF4

Just out of interest. The Besnard Lakes have used Number Signal samples a few times. The Wilco one is notable though - the sample comes from The Conet Project, a reasonably well known compilation of recordings of shortwave Number Signals. The company that made the compilation sued over copyright, but since, technically, the "owners" of the original signals weren't known, I'm not sure their claim could have held up. In any event, the band settled out of court before it was tested. The album is named after the sample used - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, from the NATO phonetic alphabet.

Carry on.

good bands, btw ...... and Besnard Lakes have a song called 'For Agent 13' ... ?

I'm I reading too much into all this ...

Lab_Mouse

Misleading title OP..I thought this forums very own mysterious had a radio station.Im disappointed now:mad::D.

Yes a very interesting topic and seriously fecking strange....

My name is URL

I downloaded a program called HamSphere (virtual ham radio) after seeing it mentioned on another forum discussing the UVB-76 signal.. There's currently a very interesting discussion about numbers stations on one of the channels - 6.270.00

Magaa

Magaa wrote: »

Would that place be abandoned? Id imagine its a military place

Yeah scary!, specialy when you keep imagining if you turn around your gonna see the grudge :cool:


Edit: sorry no the scond one is more scary



UVB-76 station



what are those circles?

does any one else find this intresting?
it cold be a doomsday station like if that radio changes or is programmed there could be missiles released

thories ofc

IrelandSpirit

Yes it could be, it bloody-well could be and i just spent the better part of the day googling over this one - feel like I've been psyoped by my own fukced up psyop CT theory THAT'S how good these soviet pyops people are! Danm those pesky Ruskies

Flaregon

Quality fun in this topic.

heres 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdnoAJ7KoFE

Now only thing they have in common is the fact that they have numbers and wired back ground sounds, What if there just a sound testing system, trying to find brown noise or something.

caseyann

I dont know why but since i started reading this thread i have gotten a very bad feeling

IrelandSpirit

caseyann wrote: »

I dont know why but since i started reading this thread i have gotten a very bad feeling

same here, it's been at me all day ... feels like those guys in that series Lost when they had to feed numbers into that machine doomsday machine! Actually thinking on it now i never did find out what all that was about ... but could that series have been somehow hinting at this stuff?

Doge

Theres a recording of the exact time UBV-76 went off air here: :cool:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3Hw33bslAU

espinolman

Early this year i was listening to advertisments on the radio , and i started thinking that there may be coded messages in adverts for certain products on the radio , i know it may sounds a bit way out , but thats what i think , that certain information that someone or group is trying to get out has been coded into certain advertisements on the radio , because of certains words used in ads , you see , why would they be saying that in an advert , nothing to do with the product they are promoting . :rolleyes:

IrelandSpirit

waveform wrote: »

Theres a recording of the exact time UBV-76 went off air here: :cool:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3Hw33bslAU

LOL!! That's just so funny in such a fukced up way - and that's only the 4th time voices have been heard, right? And then it just stops ....... wtf????

My name is URL

waveform wrote: »

Theres a recording of the exact time UBV-76 went off air here: :cool:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3Hw33bslAU

:pac:

Doge

espinolman wrote: »

Early this year i was listening to advertisments on the radio , and i started thinking that there may be coded messages in adverts for certain products on the radio , i know it may sounds a bit way out , but thats what i think , that certain information that someone or group is trying to get out has been coded into certain advertisements on the radio , because of certains words used in ads , you see , why would they be saying that in an advert , nothing to do with the product they are promoting . :rolleyes:

I cant remember the name,
but theres a watermark that can be placed in digital audio, that is not audible to the human ear, but can be read by a computer,
the whole point is if you heard a song out and about,
and you didnt know the name of it,
whip out your iphone lets say,
the app would "listen" to the audio coming through the microphone,
decode the water mark, and it would be able to give you the name of the song by looking up an internet database.

It could just as easily be used to encode a message,
that could only be decoded by a spy.

Just a more modernized method in comparison to number stations.

Doge

IrelandSpirit wrote: »

LOL!! That's just so funny in such a fukced up way - and that's only the 4th time voices have been heard, right? And then it just stops ....... wtf????

I guess so! I didnt know wether it was a genuine recording of the voices or not!
You seem to know more than I do!
I lol'd when i heard it. :pac:

IrelandSpirit

waveform wrote: »

I cant remember the name,
but theres a watermark that can be placed in digital audio, that is not audible to the human ear, but can be read by a computer,
the whole point is if you heard a song out and about,
and you didnt know the name of it,
whip out your iphone lets say,
the app would "listen" to the audio coming through the microphone,
decode the water mark, and it would be able to give you the name of the song by looking up an internet database.

It could just as easily be used to encode a message,
that could only be decoded by a spy.

Just a more modernized method in comparison to number stations.

Wasn't there's also that holographic sound advertising which there was a lot of controversy about a couple of years ago .... can't recall the company now, 'blue something' ....?

IrelandSpirit

waveform wrote: »

I guess so! I didnt know wether it was a genuine recording of the voices or not!
You seem to know more than I do!
I lol'd when i heard it. :pac:

lol! I know feck about the bloody thing and it's been driving me bananas all day!!!

Doge

IrelandSpirit wrote: »

Wasn't there's also that holographic sound advertising which there was a lot of controversy about a couple of years ago .... can't recall the company now, 'blue something' ....?

I've no idea, but that holographic sound looks interesting.

http://www.holophonic.ch/archivio/testaudio/Cerini%20-%20Stereo.mp3

I remember my first time listening to it was that mp3 of a barbershop,
where the barber is meant to be cutting your hair,
and you can hear the razor quite clearly, as if its really next to your ear!

If you have any more examples i'd love to hear them.

---

While we're on the topic of encoded signals check out this obscure video involving transmitting an application that would run on a Commodore 64 during a TV show!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKmu68URUeI


If you look at the info it's well explained,
If I attempted to explain it now I'd only make a balls of it, i'm so tired!

Doge

Actually remember on the likes of ITV and other English TV stations back in the day,
about 1 minute before the ads would come on, you'd get this Black and White twirly thing up the top right corner of the screen?

What the hell was that about!
Could easily have been a message encoded in that.

It would of been handy for some vcr's,
so that if you were taping the VCR would stop automatically,
and start it automatically when the ads are finished, so you dont have any ads taped!

My name is URL

waveform wrote: »

Actually remember on the likes of ITV and other English TV stations back in the day,
about 1 minute before the ads would come on, you'd get this Black and White twirly thing up the top right corner of the screen?

What the hell was that about!
Could easily have been a message encoded in that.

It would of been handy for some vcr's,
so that if you were taping the VCR would stop automatically,
and start it automatically when the ads are finished, so you dont have any ads taped!

Yeah, they're Cue Marks. A somewhat similar idea is used to identify copyrighted material in visual media. As for audio, I don't think any 'signal' is added to do so, song recognition is mostly done by comparison to a DB full of songs. It's possible to very slightly alter songs in a defined way so that software can detect and decode it which allows you to add virtual information to the track

IrelandSpirit

waveform wrote: »

I've no idea, but that holographic sound looks interesting.

http://www.holophonic.ch/archivio/testaudio/Cerini%20-%20Stereo.mp3

I remember my first time listening to it was that mp3 of a barbershop,
where the barber is meant to be cutting your hair,
and you can hear the razor quite clearly, as if its really next to your ear!

If you have any more examples i'd love to hear them.

---

While we're on the topic of encoded signals check out this obscure video involving transmitting an application that would run on a Commodore 64 during a TV show!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKmu68URUeI


If you look at the info it's well explained,
If I attempted to explain it now I'd only make a balls of it, i'm so tired!

Thanks, tired here too .... trolling the religion forum for some weird reason ... I wish I could remember that advertising thing with the holographic sound. I'll try to dig it up at some point. Basically, you'd be walking past a tv shop say, and suddenly you'd have a voice which only you can hear blasting at you to buy a tv. That kind of thing. It was tested in a few countries and raised a lot of legal issues .....


.... waiting for that vid load.

Doge

IrelandSpirit wrote: »

Thanks, tired here too .... trolling the religion forum for some weird reason ... I wish I could remember that advertising thing with the holographic sound. I'll try to dig it up at some point. Basically, you'd be walking past a tv shop say, and suddenly you'd have a voice which only you can hear blasting at you to buy a tv. That kind of thing. It was tested in a few countries and raised a lot of legal issues .....


.... waiting for that vid load.

Sounds like something similar to this:

http://www.ted.com/talks/woody_norris_invents_amazing_things.html

yuloni

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ntlbell

Condi wrote: »

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Yeah, I brought it up in work during lunch and I just got blank faces.

Maybe they're all in on it!!

Magaa

Condi wrote: »

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yeah i heard its back again