Monday, January 18, 2010

UVB-76 "The Buzzer"

A shortwave radio station has been broadcasting buzzing and beeps for several years. Interrupted at least 4 times by a Russian voice repeating codes over and over on frequency 4625 kHz. It's strange because the beeping has only been interupted 4 times over the course of 20+ years.


"All buzzing, all day long, without capitalist commercials comrades!"


from Wikipedia:
  • At 21:58 GMT on December 24, 1997, the buzzing abruptly stopped to be replaced by a short series of beeps, and a male voice speaking Russian announced: "Ya — UVB-76. 18008. BROMAL: Boris, Roman, Olga, Mikhail, Anna, Larisa. 742, 799, 14."[6] The same message was repeated several times before the beep sequence repeated and the buzzer resumed.
  • A similar voice message was broadcast on September 12, 2002, but with extreme distortion (possibly as a result of the source being too close to the microphone head) that rendered comprehension very difficult. This second voice broadcast has been partially translated as "UVB-76, UVB-76. 62691 Izafet 3693 8270."
  • A third voice message was broadcast on February 21, 2006 at 7:57 GMT. (recording of the third voice transmission) Again, the speaking voice was highly distorted, but the message's content translates as: "75-59-75-59. 39-52-53-58. 5-5-2-5. Konstantin-1-9-0-9-0-8-9-8-Tatiana-Oksana-Anna-Elena-Pavel-Schuka. Konstantin 8-4. 9-7-5-5-9-Tatiana. Anna Larisa Uliyana-9-4-1-4-3-4-8."[7] These names are found in some Russian spelling alphabets, similar to the NATO phonetic alphabet.
  • A fourth voice message was broadcast on September 29, 2009.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UVB-76


It's most definitely creepy.

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