http://uk3-pn.mixstream.net/8370.m3uHowdy ecks, considering internet radio seems to be the hot topic of the moment, I thought I'd share my favorite stream. Enjoy the gentle ballads of The Buzzer, otherwise known as UVB-76. It received a bout of popularity recently, which caused folk to start interfering with it, but it should be back to normal now.That stream is a repeated version of a shortwave radio transmission, broadcast on 4625 kHz AM, and has been broadcasting since 1982 from a station northwest of Moscow. Apparently, the purpose of the transmission is unknown to this day. There's lots of info about it online.
http://uk3-pn.mixstream.net/8370.m3u
Howdy ecks, considering internet radio seems to be the hot topic of the moment, I thought I'd share my favorite stream. Enjoy the gentle ballads of The Buzzer, otherwise known as UVB-76. It received a bout of popularity recently, which caused folk to start interfering with it, but it should be back to normal now.
That stream is a repeated version of a shortwave radio transmission, broadcast on 4625 kHz AM, and has been broadcasting since 1982 from a station northwest of Moscow. Apparently, the purpose of the transmission is unknown to this day. There's lots of info about it online.
Ah, just curious, but I've heard it stopped broadcasting for a few days about a month or so ago. Do you have any idea about this? I know it's back now, since there were broadcasts on august 23rd, and the supposed stopping date was a while before that, but I'm kind of curious.Also, I've heard that UVB76 is sort of a back up signal for something, and it would kinda make sense, since theres only a few known times it's broadcasted any voice messages in all the time it's been around... but not sure what for.
Ah, just curious, but I've heard it stopped broadcasting for a few days about a month or so ago. Do you have any idea about this? I know it's back now, since there were broadcasts on august 23rd, and the supposed stopping date was a while before that, but I'm kind of curious.
Also, I've heard that UVB76 is sort of a back up signal for something, and it would kinda make sense, since theres only a few known times it's broadcasted any voice messages in all the time it's been around... but not sure what for.
>>528I'm not sure, there were some amature operators using the same frequency, perhaps they took it down due to that. Apparently now UVB-76 is using a hugely more powerful transmitter and a new frequency.As for what it is, it could be something as simple as a test beacon. It's been suggested that it's actually a channel used by soldiers to test the alertness of the operators at the UVB-76 station, perhaps in case of war or disaster. I much prefer to think it's some remenant soviet mind control broadcast or some kind of ICBM jammer or something.
>>528
I'm not sure, there were some amature operators using the same frequency, perhaps they took it down due to that. Apparently now UVB-76 is using a hugely more powerful transmitter and a new frequency.
As for what it is, it could be something as simple as a test beacon. It's been suggested that it's actually a channel used by soldiers to test the alertness of the operators at the UVB-76 station, perhaps in case of war or disaster. I much prefer to think it's some remenant soviet mind control broadcast or some kind of ICBM jammer or something.
Hmm, interesting.Yeah, I think I've heard that too.I like that mind control idea better, though.
Hmm, interesting.
Yeah, I think I've heard that too.I like that mind control idea better, though.
>>523Back to normal again, after a period of downtime. There's been a whole bunch of voice broadcasts over the past few days in russian, with no buzzer noise.
>>523
Back to normal again, after a period of downtime. There's been a whole bunch of voice broadcasts over the past few days in russian, with no buzzer noise.
I can hear Morse code in the background, If only i knew Morse code...
I had heard a couple of theories about UVB-76 a while ago. The one that stuck with me was that it was a holdover from the Russian "dead hand" system from the cold war - the transmitter would be operational all the time, regardless of the situation. The only thing that could block it would be the physical destruction of the transmitter or EMP from a nuclear explosion in Moscow, both indications of a nuclear strike which only the American's could possibly risk. If there was ever an interruption in the signal for more than a certain amount of time, and missile silos couldn't pick it up on their radios, it meant that all of Russia was free to launch every single nuclear weapon in their arsenal towards America, guaranteeing that if one of the world's superpowers went down, they'd take the other with them. Obviously that either wasn't true or the system was decommissioned ages ago (tranmission kept to allow plausible deniability of original purpose?), as the recent interference has shown. The theory just stayed with me because I know the British Trident nuclear submarines have a similar system which allows them to launch nukes at their own discretion if all of the BBC radio stations cut out for a certain amount of time.
Uhmmm... Is it wierd that I can slightly hear the sound of voices, sometimes music and even a phone on the radio?
>>567Not at all, depending on the time of day, you might even hear some rusky talking into the microphone.
>>567
Not at all, depending on the time of day, you might even hear some rusky talking into the microphone.
>>560They say Dead Hand had to be manually activated anyways: it ran a checklist and if nobody was available to contact and it detected a nuclear strike, it handed control of Russia's nuclear arsenal to some guy quivering in a bunker.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CDzdNAl0hk
Also http://www.youtube.com/user/4625KHz#grid/user/E2BCE18848645708
Do you know that transmitter buliding is abandoned for 10 years?