seeder Posted August 3, 2017 #1 Share Posted August 3, 2017 (edited) Quote Mystery of the ghostly Russian radio station that has 'buzzed' every day since the 1970s - but no one knows who or what is broadcasting The Buzzer has been playing from frequency 4625 kHz since the 1970s Intermittently, code words and numbers are read out by a Russian voice Theories for its use range from tracking missiles, to encrypting spy messages The transmission seems to originate from a swampland near St Petersburg, but no-one knows who is broadcasting it Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4756568/The-mystery-Russian-buzzing-signal.html#ixzz4oh1FxdY0 Quote The ghostly radio station that no one claims to run “MDZhB” has been broadcasting since 1982. No one knows why. http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170801-the-ghostly-radio-station-that-no-one-claims-to-run Topic was posted here back in 2011.... no point in reviving it tho Edited August 3, 2017 by seeder 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keel M. Posted August 3, 2017 #2 Share Posted August 3, 2017 Maybe it's just someone yanking everyone else's chain. I mean haven't there been enough technological advances to better answer this question? At least pinpoint specifically where it's coming from? I'm sure we can't just find a suspected cabin in the woods and watch it to see who comes out, but if this has been going on since the 70s and we know no more now than we did when it began... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seeder Posted August 3, 2017 Author #3 Share Posted August 3, 2017 14 minutes ago, Nonentity said: Maybe it's just someone yanking everyone else's chain. I mean haven't there been enough technological advances to better answer this question? At least pinpoint specifically where it's coming from? I'm sure we can't just find a suspected cabin in the woods and watch it to see who comes out, but if this has been going on since the 70s and we know no more now than we did when it began... well there is even a wiki on it, but some of the info needs citations Quote UVB-76, also known as "the Buzzer", is the nickname given by radio listeners to a shortwave radio station that broadcasts on the frequency 4625 kHz.[1][2] It broadcasts a short, monotonous About this sound buzz tone (help·info), repeating at a rate of approximately 25 tones per minute, 24 hours per day.[1] Sometimes, the buzzer signal is interrupted and a voice transmission in Russian takes place.[3] The first reports were made of a station on this frequency in 1973.[4] Its origins have been traced to Russia, and although several theories with varying degrees of plausibility exist, its actual purpose has never been officially confirmed and remains a source of speculation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UVB-76 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seeder Posted August 3, 2017 Author #4 Share Posted August 3, 2017 heres the old thread with more info and vids....its just 3 pages....but please dont post on it as its from 2010, so comments on this new thread...please! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galactic Goatman Posted August 6, 2017 #5 Share Posted August 6, 2017 "Hey guys, did I leave the radio station on before we left?" "Nah you turned it off, I think..." 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DingoLingo Posted August 6, 2017 #6 Share Posted August 6, 2017 gods I remember listening to these when I was a teen on my ham radio.. always found it interesting.. there are only a handful left broadcasting now I believe.. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vorg Posted August 6, 2017 #7 Share Posted August 6, 2017 There is someone speaking Russian in the video. It would be nice to know what he is saying. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vorg Posted August 7, 2017 #8 Share Posted August 7, 2017 Once or twice a week, a man or woman will read out some words in Russian, such as “dinghy” or “farming specialist”. And that’s it. Anyone, anywhere in the world can listen in, simply by tuning a radio to the frequency 4625 kHz. http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170801-the-ghostly-radio-station-that-no-one-claims-to-run Could be code for Dinghy "at sea" and farming specialist "ashore" for ships or subs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaldon Posted August 7, 2017 #9 Share Posted August 7, 2017 (edited) 13 hours ago, South Alabam said: There is someone speaking Russian in the video. It would be nice to know what he is saying. If you're referring to the video in the DM article, there's nothing useful being said, just the same letters "МДЖБ" cited letter by letter using Russian person names (Mikhail, Dmitry, Zhenya, Boris), the numbers and so forth just as transcribed in the picture. Citing abbreviations by the first letters of names is a common thing in Russia, as those words are the easiest to be discerned through all kinds of noises. Edited August 7, 2017 by Chaldon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaldon Posted August 7, 2017 #10 Share Posted August 7, 2017 It is unlikely the mythical "dead hand" system, frankly I don't believe it exists at all, knowing how Russians hate to trust in automatics for critical uses. The information being transmitted is too complex for such a simple purpose. I guess it's just a way of one-way communication between some very important military staff, may be the main headquarters and all the other units in the country. As far as I know the Russian military is extremely centralized. Russians love centralization. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timothy Posted August 7, 2017 #11 Share Posted August 7, 2017 Another cool thing, not unrelated, from the USSR Cold War days: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duga_radar 'Duga (Russian: Дуга) was a Soviet over-the-horizon(OTH) radar system used as part of the Soviet anti-ballistic missile early-warning network. The system operated from July 1976 to December 1989. Two operational Duga radars were deployed, one near Chernobyl and Chernihiv in the Ukrainian SSR(present-day Ukraine), the other in eastern Siberia. - The Duga systems were extremely powerful, over 10 MW in some cases, and broadcast in the shortwave radio bands. They appeared without warning, sounding like a sharp, repetitive tapping noise at 10 Hz,[1] which led to it being nicknamed by shortwave listeners the Russian Woodpecker. The random frequency hops disrupted legitimate broadcasts, amateur radio operations, oceanic commercial aviation communications, utility transmissions, and resulted in thousands of complaints by many countries worldwide.' 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paperdyer Posted August 7, 2017 #12 Share Posted August 7, 2017 It's ET phoning home and no one has answered him yet. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeastieRunner Posted August 7, 2017 #13 Share Posted August 7, 2017 6 hours ago, seanjo said: I seem to remember at the end of the cold war when the nukes were being dismantled etc. it was discovered most of the USSR's missiles weren't in working order anyway. They probably gave some to North Korea that will blow up on the launch pad. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaldon Posted August 7, 2017 #14 Share Posted August 7, 2017 (edited) 2 hours ago, seanjo said: That's Communism for ya! Ha-ha! Actually living in USSR since after the death of Stalin was completely nothing like living in the North Korea today. I remember what it was. There was some poverty (I would better call it "material modesty"), some peculiarities caused by cultural isolation, but the ideology was actually down to the bare minimum, not too much more than in the US today. There's a point of view, and it's completely reasonable, that USSR was actually a capitalistic state, where the state was the only giant monopolistic corporation where everyone worked. There was money, people were keeping them in banks, there were several economic crises, whereas an actual communism should had been abolish, or at least try to abolish money in the very beginning. By the mid 80's people had everything they needed, including color TVs and boom-boxes, it was all of somewhat poor quality but it worked, it wasn't too easy to buy, but that latter actually kept consumerism at bay. I am not defending USSR, I can't defend a big and greedy corporation as it was, but it obviously had a lot of plus sides. Most of all I miss the social security of these days, and the big dream of the bright technologically-advanced communistic future, where ice cream would be free for everyone, delivered by a machine saying "bon appetite" in a pleasant female voice. Actually every time and place has it's upsides and downsides, if it's a normal life and not a period of construction of a new way of life (i.e. revolution). I think North Korea is, at least to a certain degree, just stuck in their revolution for some reason. May be it's because they are small and poor in natural resources, weak but surrounded by the enemies. Stuck in the past, they fear to accept the new united world around them, fear to lose the fragile balance they yet managed to achieve, although that balance has a lot of strains. Yes, the new world is entirely capitalistic, and the consumeristic capitalism of today, ruled by the transnational corporations, is certainly far from its best shape. But shying in the corner is also not a way to live. That's not even a way to survive. The best way is to continue the unification of the planet, unification of peoples. Who knows, may be that's actually a way to the real communism, as it was described in the early utopias? Edited August 7, 2017 by Chaldon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Wearer of Hats Posted August 8, 2017 #15 Share Posted August 8, 2017 I rather like the "they're how the KGB used to communicate with sleeper agents" theory, basically every so often you get code words or names and the agent knows what to do when they hear it. The stations have gone offline over the years because the sleepers have either died or been "retired". Next time a name turns up, I'd be intrigued to know if anyone could track down people by that name and see if they're still alive within a week, 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaldon Posted August 8, 2017 #16 Share Posted August 8, 2017 (edited) 7 hours ago, Sir Wearer of Hats said: Next time a name turns up, I'd be intrigued to know if anyone could track down people by that name and see if they're still alive within a week, Not in the case with "МДЖБ". The names here are just for the letters (read my post #10 above), because those are the most widespread first names in Russia, not a single rare name has ever turned up. So those cannot be used to designate agents. I think agents use numbers for themselves instead of names. Edited August 8, 2017 by Chaldon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoldenRabbit Posted August 9, 2017 #17 Share Posted August 9, 2017 You can hear it using this online radio and putting frequency 4625 kHz in. http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/ 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nathan Brazil Posted August 13, 2017 #18 Share Posted August 13, 2017 ...Miles to go before we sleep... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt221 Posted August 13, 2017 #19 Share Posted August 13, 2017 Can't beat a bit of sideband it bleeds over loads of other stations Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DingoLingo Posted August 27, 2017 #20 Share Posted August 27, 2017 On 14/08/2017 at 1:26 AM, Matt221 said: Can't beat a bit of sideband it bleeds over loads of other stations EVIL!!! you sir are pure and utter evil.. I used to hate sidebanders.. until I got myself my first sideband and put in a 15kc slide 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt221 Posted August 28, 2017 #21 Share Posted August 28, 2017 21 hours ago, DingoLingo said: EVIL!!! you sir are pure and utter evil.. I used to hate sidebanders.. until I got myself my first sideband and put in a 15kc slide Tut tut dreadful things.... sometimes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctor wu Posted August 31, 2017 #22 Share Posted August 31, 2017 The Conet Project...for those who are intrigued by the numbers stations and related issues. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conet_Project he Conet Project: Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations is a four (later five) CD set of recordings of numbers stations and noise stations: shortwave (HF) radio stations of unknown origin believed to be operated by government agencies to communicate with deployed spies. The collection is released by Britain's Irdial-Discs record label in 1997, based on the work of numbers station enthusiast Akin Fernandez.[1] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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