UVB-76 - The mysterious Russian broadcasting station

v0n said:
As with all old military comms of that type, even in old days the codes were most likely just a fallback for those very, very few units that couldn't receive communications in any other format. So if your theoretical Dolph Lundgren or Sean Connery found themselves in such place on earth that they couldn't contact anyone, couldn't broadcast, couldn't call into special phone numbers with their pin codes to listen to recorded messages, use satellite feeds, pick envelopes from trench coat men on park benches, or whatever crossword puzzle codes in Sunday edition of Pravda were scheduled for use at the time - they would tune in to receive their Xmas greetings from HQ via one of those odd stations. I like "mystery shopper" scenario a lot tho. It would be very Russian - pump many years of work and few million dollars into perpetual infrastructure - to check if those who were supposed to be listening are still listening, why do they need to listen? So we can check if they are listening to us checking if they are listening.



That was the Duga early warning system broadcasted from Chernobyl, wasn't it?
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Cheers for the explanation v0n, its amazing that these things went on!

Simulatorman, Duga looks amazing! :O What a feat! Apart from the woodpecking, do you know what else the system broadcast?
 
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Pav89 said:
Cheers for the explanation v0n, its amazing that these things went on!

Simulatorman, Duga looks amazing! :O What a feat! Apart from the woodpecking, do you know what else the system broadcast?
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I have no idea. Some said it was being used for brain control and jamming communications. People have detected hidden signals:

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I presume that its cold war secrets will remain locked away forever.
 
WOW.

That is extremely sinister stuff.

I love things like this.

For others, they should google Radio Isotope beacons, for some even more sinister things...!

They have loads of them all along the north russian coast, that are lost now.

One was featured on the Russian film How I ended Last Summer, which for me, was one of the best films I have ever seen!
 
Judge Mental said:
Reminds me of the old Soviet 'Woodpecker' signal you could pick up on shortwave radio, back in the 80s.
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v0n said:
That was the Duga early warning system broadcasted from Chernobyl, wasn't it?
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I'd forgotten all about the woodpecker - When I used to go to the radio club in the 1980s that would be the bane of the HF operators life and I remember hearing it pretty much every time someone turned the wireless on. It was just known as the woodpecker and it's nice to finally read something about it, thanks for the reminder :)
 
simulatorman said:
I have no idea. Some said it was being used for brain control and jamming communications. People have detected hidden signals:

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I presume that its cold war secrets will remain locked away forever.
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Wow, I really never thought that level of depth would apply to signals! This is amazing how slight variations reveal significant differences in the waves! :D


Feek said:
That stream doesn't seem to be actually receiving it at the moment.

I've just recorded a few seconds, I've got some local QRM appeared which masks it a bit so I've tried to tweak it by adding some DSP. Here's what it sounds like right now:

http://www.ocukroguesgallery.com/feek/UVB-76.mp3
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:o could this be part of a hidden message then?



Can we create an OCUK Radio club? :D Radio bingo and tea at the end of each session, LOL! This is fascinating stuff, and some of you guys know quite a bit about it.
 
OP am I right in assuming you came across my post in the "what's this switch" thread and inspired you to make a thread, if not forgive my curiosity?
Anyways, I read somewhere long time ago from a conspiracy site ATS, that this radio frequency was possibly used as a last lifeline "deadmans switch", something like, should the Soviets back in the Cold war era be ambushed/threatened or possibly be on the verge of getting Nuked by the opposing forces (U.S), this frequency may somehow stop beeping and KABOOM.

Its just a theory, but hey since we're all speulating this bizarre phenomena, I thought I would throw out this, possibly far fetched theory.
 
Perhaps there is no purpose to UVB-76 other than to confound the Capitalist Pig-Dog Bourgeois with nonsensical voice transmissions and perpetual bleeping?

However, I think we'll look back at the Cold War in decades to come and remember it as one of the most intriguing, and at times bizarre episodes in human history.
 
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