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The Mysterious Russian Woodpecker

Postby IntheShade » Thu Aug 26, 2010 2:53 am

Strange things are afoot in the arena of world politics:
Mysterious Russian 'Buzzer' radio broadcast changes5 By Duncan Geere |25 August 2010 |Categories: Culture, Weird News

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Hipster: from cultural icon to caricatureGilpin Family Whisky made from diabetics' urineSpain declares war on pigeons with net catapultThe output of a mysterious radio station in Russia, which has been broadcasting the same monotonous signal almost continuously for 20 years, has suddenly changed.

Numbers stations are shortwave radio stations that broadcast computer-generated voices reading numbers, words, letters or Morse code. Their purpose has never been uncovered, but evidence from spy cases suggests that they're used to broadcast coded information to secret agents.

Over the past week or so, the output of one particular station that broadcasts from near Povarovo, Russia, increased dramatically. The station has a callsign of UVB-76, but is known as "The Buzzer" by its listeners because of the short, monotonous buzz tone that it normally plays 21 to 34 times per minute. It's only deviated from that signal three times previously -- briefly in 1997, 2002 and 2006.

In early August, a garbled recording of a voice speaking Russian was heard by listeners. A few days later, on 23 August at 13:35UTC, a clearer voice read out the following message twice: "UVB-76, UVB-76 — 93 882 naimina 74 14 35 74 — 9 3 8 8 2 nikolai, anna, ivan, michail, ivan, nikolai, anna, 7, 4, 1, 4, 3, 5, 7, 4", before returning to its normal broadcasting.

Since then, a number of other distorted voices have appeared over the normal buzzing transmission, as well as knocks and shuffles, as if someone were moving things around inside the broadcasting room. It's believed that the transmission site has an open microphone, which occasionally picks up sounds from technicians working within the broadcast site.

Various fans of the station have begun the process of trying to decode the signal. Interpreting the numbers as co-ordinates gives a location in the middle of the Barents Sea, between Norway and Russia, where there's large scale oil and gas production, and where the Russian army plans to test anti-aircraft missiles in the near future.

Others suspect that it might be a transmission that signals the availability of another system -- like a dead man's switch, possibly even for Russia's Cold War-era Dead Hand fail-deadly system, which was to trigger ICBM launches if a nuclear strike from the United States was detected. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, it may have been repurposed.

The transmissions continue, and are being documented on the Wikipedia page for the station. If you'd like to help, it's possible to listen in yourself, as one fan has rigged up a web stream of the signal. It's currently very busy, however, so if you have difficulty tuning in, then try again later.

What are your theories for what the signal might be?
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Re: The Mysterious Russian Woodpecker

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August 2010
There has been a spike in activity on UVB-76 in August 2010. Following messages have been detected by listeners:

On August 20, 2010 at 05:11 UTC, a garbled voice speaking Russian, was detected by amateur listeners. It made a short message with little interference and then repeated itself with noticeably more static. This followed recent activity on the station that included more static than usual and several instances of objects being moved/dropped. All of this was detected by amateur listeners and is unconfirmed at the moment.
On August 23, 2010 at 13:35 UTC, a voice speaking in Russian was detected. The voice read out a single, short transmission several times before the line went dead, then returned to its normal broadcast. As the message was transmitted on upper side-band, reception with ordinary AM receivers was weak and distorted.
The message, repeated twice, was: UVB-76, UVB-76 — 93 882 naimina 74 14 35 74 — 9 3 8 8 2 nikolai, anna, ivan, michail, ivan, nikolai, anna, 7, 4, 1, 4, 3, 5, 7, 4[11] (recording of the August 23 2010 voice transmission)
On August 25, 2010 at 11:53 GMT the following message was detected: "August 3 5 2 7 Accretion 3 6 0 9 5 6 7 3". A recording is available here mirror
It is not known whether or not these voices are that of persons physically present at the broadcast station, or if they originate elsewhere as radio transmissions and are being overheard by UVB-76's input device.

Below is a log of transmissions pertaining to 8/2010:

On August 20, 2010 at 05:11 UTC, a garbled voice speaking Russian, was detected by amateur listeners. It made a short message with little interference and then repeated itself with noticeably more static. This followed recent activity on the station that included more static than usual and several instances of objects being moved/dropped. All of this was detected by amateur listeners and is unconfirmed at the moment. On August 23, 2010 at 13:35 UTC, a voice speaking in Russian, with a pronounced Jewish accent, was detected on UVB-76. The voice read out a single, short transmission several times before the line went dead, then returned to its normal broadcast. As the message was transmitted on upper side-band, reception with ordinary AM receivers was weak and distorted. The following recording was made at UVB-76 Internet Repeater in USB Mode (Recording of the voice transmission on 4.625MHz USB 4.5kHz bandwidth)- the entire livefilestore.com site is down mere hours after this wikipedia update. The message, repeated twice, was: UVB-76, UVB-76 — 93 882 naimina 74 14 35 74 — 9 3 8 8 2 nikolai, anna, ivan, michail, ivan, nikolai, anna, 7, 4, 1, 4, 3, 5, 7, 4[10] On August 24, 2010 at approximately 04:00 UTC, a heavily distorted voice was heard by amateur listeners.[citation needed]

On August 24, 2010 at 13:25 UTC, another heavily distorted voice was detected by several amateur listeners.[citation needed]

On August 24, 2010 at 17:43 UTC, Hard to hear voices were heard over the transmission.[citation needed]

On August 24, 2010 at around 03:30 UTC, distorted voices in addition to fast beeps and pulses were heard.[citation needed]

On August 25, 2010 around 06:13 UTC, Random knocks or shuffles as if someone is in the room, changes in tone randomly.[citation needed]

On August 25, 2010 at 06:45 UTC, A grumble or garbled sound appeared out of nowhere for 389 ms.[citation needed]

On August 25, 2010 at 06:54 UTC, Another transmission occurred. (Recording of the fifth voice transmission) A new sequence/pattern with a chirping/crank noise occured on top of the previous buzzer. At times this new noise made the old buzzing noise barely audible.The message content was: "UVB-76. UVB-76. 38, 527. Akkreciya. 36, 09, 55, 73.".[citation needed]

On August 25, 2010 at 18:07 UTC, Morse code could be heard behind the buzzer signal. It lasted until approximately 18:20 UTC. At approximately 18:08 UTC A tone was heard in the background followed by a short message.[citation needed]
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Re: The Mysterious Russian Woodpecker

Postby flyboy2548m » Thu Aug 26, 2010 4:38 am

I'm not entirely sure what ITS is trying to say here, or what these "transmissions" mean (if they ever even occured), but a little cultural/historical background might be of help here. During the Soviet times one of the things the government maintained tight controls on was communications in general and radio traffic specifically. It was, in fact, easier to import a weapon than a VHF transceiver and, as late as around 1990, cordless telephones (ones with 3-foot-long metal antennae, like the ones you see in 1980s movies were illegal due to "interference" they caused). Operating any kind of a radio station without a specific permit was a crime punishable by a multi-year sentence. There was really no such thing as "amateur radio" and I personally recall numerous cases when people who operated home radio stations were arrested and imprisoned.

Fast forward to modern times. Like everything else previously forbidden, radio has made a huge comeback all over former Soviet space. There are now ham-like operators, CB-type traffic, etc etc. The FSB has all but given up regulating them and, as a result, there is so much radio traffic coming out of there that I wouldn't trust any of it with much.
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Re: The Mysterious Russian Woodpecker

Postby IntheShade » Thu Aug 26, 2010 4:43 am

UVB-76 Disappears. Fears Over USSR's Dead Hand.
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The mysterious numbers station code-named UVB-76 has been broadcasting at a frequency of 4625kHz since 1982 out of Russia. The mysterious signal broadcasts a buzzing sound every second and lasting for .8 seconds anywhere from 20 to 34 times a minute. The broadcast is a complete mystery and every clue that has come about to provide evidence of its purpose only deepens the enigma. And just recently the broadcast disappeared. Some suggest the signal was related to the Dead Hand, the system that would automatically retaliate with nuclear weapons in the event of a nuclear war. The sudden and unexplained disappearance of UVB-76 has many people nervous.

On January 16, 2003 the buzzing tone changed to a higher pitch of slower repetition for several minutes before changing back to its constant droning lower pitch. At the time many were concerned that the increased pitch may have been related to the increased perceived risk of nuclear attack by the United States. As the tone returned to normal, however, it was shrugged off as an unexplained anomaly. The very nature of numbers stations such as this one is one of complete mystery.

And that's not all that's suggesting there's something more going on at this station. Whatever it is has received a considerable amount of funding over the years as there is evidence that the site is an actual installation with employees of unknown purpose who often will walk into the transmission room and occasionally have hushed conversations behind the microphone. Unfortunately these conversations only serve to increase the mystery of the UVB076 signal. Less than a month after September 11, 2001 those listening for changes in the signal noted a brief conversation taking place in the room where the buzzer apparently was transmitting, "143. Not receiving the generator. There's some work on the hardware." A broadcast from December 24, 1997 was temporarily interrupted and a male voice came on speaking Russian, "Ya - UVB-76. 18008. Bromal: Boris, Roman, Olga, Mikhael, Anna, Larisa. 742, 799, 14." After the message was repeated several times, the message returned to normal. Again in 2002 on September 12, the voice came back, "UVB-76, UVB-76. 62691 Izafet 3693 8270." Other messages would follow with the most recent official one being an equally cryptic string of numbers and letters being broadcast as recently as 2006.

And yet there are also rumors of a final voice broadcast days prior to UVB-76's disappearance, but the contents of that message have not been discovered. Numbers stations exist in Russia, the United States, and several other countries around the world though their purpose is widely unknown. There are many suggestions that the broadcasts may be coded instructions to spies. As for the UVB-76 broadcast, there is a strong belief that it may be related to the dreaded "Dead Hand," of the Soviet Union. The Dead Hand was a program set up to ensure a retaliatory attack on the United States in the event of a first strike scenario by the United States. It was set up as a sort of automated kill switch in case there was no one left at the controls of Russia's ICBMs. And that leaves many wondering, "Where does that leave us if the system is no longer broadcasting?"
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Re: The Mysterious Russian Woodpecker

Postby flyboy2548m » Thu Aug 26, 2010 4:58 am

Awrighty then...
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Re: The Mysterious Russian Woodpecker

Postby Ancient Mariner » Thu Aug 26, 2010 2:46 pm

The things people spend their time on, but............short wave nonsense. :roll:
Had enough of short wave coms for a life time, and then some.
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Re: The Mysterious Russian Woodpecker

Postby OldSowBreath » Thu Aug 26, 2010 3:57 pm

I enjoy listening to women's gymnastics on the short-wave.

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Postby Giles » Thu Aug 26, 2010 5:10 pm

I enjoy listening to women's gymnastics on the short-wave.
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Re: The Mysterious Russian Woodpecker

Postby orangehuggy » Thu Sep 02, 2010 5:58 am

...break their chain and try to "fly", only to drop to the ground...

that is the significance of music its playing now

this is not good, ladies and gentlemen

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Re: The Mysterious Russian Woodpecker

Postby IntheShade » Thu Sep 02, 2010 1:11 pm


this is not good, ladies and gentlemen

Great find, bad news.

I also found this although am unsure what to make of it:

http://fromtheold.com/comment/reply/20316
UVB-76 is the call-sign of a shortwave radio transmission that broadcasts what many believe to be Russian Morse code. Also known as the buzzer that has the sound of a alarm clock with a flat battery. Since 1982 there were only 3 times when the buzzer's signal got interrupted and on August the 23rd something happened. A person with a "Hebrew" voice said the following words:

UVB-76, UVB-76 – 93 882 naimina 74 14 35 74 – 9 3 8 8 2 nikolai, anna, ivan, michail, ivan, nikolai, anna, 7, 4, 1, 4, 3, 5, 7, 4

No one really knows what the station is for but many believe it is for Russian spies and military to receive encrypted code but a voice speaking is very unusual. If you take the first letter of each word it spells NAIMNA which could be "na imena" which means "on names" as if someone is giving them names.

What makes the story even stranger is that a few days ago a user posted a message on 4chan, you can see the picture above. The entire threat is now missing on 4chan.

It says:

First message:

The information I am about to relay to you is highly classified. No one is supposed to know this. I do not know how much time i have to relay this to you. Currently, I am behind several unknown proxies so the government is unable to track down my location. However, I know that with several people educated about the events about to unfold, I may be able to save hundreds of lives. These evens have been planned out for years in special sessions of the United Nations, barring some representatives from these meetings which were never to go down on record. This is completely staged, and everything that occurs results of these evens will be expected and set into motion by the government officials all over the world.

Second message by same user:

The Russian Station UVB-76 is a "Dead Man's Switch" created to detonate a nuclear device set in South Korea's capital. It will be activated by Dmitry Medvedev's assassination in early September. It has been made clear in the sessions that North Korea will take the blame and war will begin.

The United States and Japan will join South Korea as China will with North Korea. Nuclear weaponry will be involved, especially in nuclear incidents on USA's Western Coast.

The Middle East will get involved, attacking the Eastern seaboard. President Obama and other continental political figures will be evacuated to an undisclosed location as the stock market crashes, civil unrest erupts and the National Guard takes over and puts martial law into effect.

Western Europe, Africa and South America will be heavily affected economically while Australia remains virtually untouched. Russia will join China and North Korea and win the third World War, and a New World Order will be put into effect. Tell everyone you know to go into hiding in the most isolated corners of the earth and prepare for the worst.

I can reveal very little information except for this. I am endangering my life and those of my loved ones by uncovering this massive plot. Please, let no one with authority know.

End of message.
UVB-76 obviously has become active. It's a large expense to operate these things, especially over the period of time this station has been in useage. Therefore it would make sense any transmission are of a serious nature.

As such, any instructions should take a few days to begin to play out---unless it really is some type deadman switch....

I so want the resident intelligence/spy DH to comment.
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Re: The Mysterious Russian Woodpecker

Postby IntheShade » Thu Sep 02, 2010 1:14 pm

...break their chain and try to "fly", only to drop to the ground...

that is the significance of music its playing now
Very odd in itself isn't it?
Danse des petits cygnes is a famous dance from the ballet Swan Lake by Tchaikovsky, from the ballet’s second or fourth act, but has become synonymous with the choreography by Lev Ivanov. The name, translated from French, means "Dance of the Little Swans".

Ivanov's choreography—created for the famous revival of Swan Lake in 1895 — was meant to imitate the way cygnets huddle and move together for protection. Four dancers enter the stage in a line and move across with their arms crossed in front of one another, grasping the next dancer's hand. They move sideways, doing sixteen pas de chat. Ideally the dancers move in exact or near-exact unison. At the very end, they break their chain and try to "fly", only to drop to the ground.[1]

According to ballet writer Jean Battey Lewis in a 1997 NPR commentary[2] the Little Swans are usually portrayed by unknown, up-and-coming dancers. Ironically, in view of the conformity required of the quartet, being cast as a Little Swan is often seen as a chance to be singled out—noticed and given more important roles. An example of the comedic potential of this dance can be seen in the Morecambe and Wise film The Intelligence Men (1965).
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Re: The Mysterious Russian Woodpecker

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Mystery over Russian general found dead on Turkish beachRussian media question official version of death of Yuri Ivanov, that he died going for a swim
(29)Tweet this (47)Luke Harding in Moscow guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 1 September 2010 17.33 BST Article historyA mysterious accident in which one of Russia's most powerful spies was found dead on a Turkish beach has provoked speculation that the deputy head of the country's foreign military intelligence service had been murdered.

The badly decomposed body of Yuri Ivanov washed up last month on the shore of the Mediterranean, and was discovered by Turkish villagers in the province of Hatay, Turkish newspapers reported today. Reports suggest that he was quietly buried in Moscow over the weekend.

Ivanov was the second in command at Russia's foreign military intelligence unit, the GRU. The general had last been deployed to review military installations in Syria, amid Kremlin attempts to reassert its influence in the Middle East, reports suggested.

Major General Ivanov's body was found on 16 August but was only identified last week. Russia's Red Star newspaper confirmed his death on Saturday in a brief obituary. Russia's defence ministry declined to comment further.

Today, however, the Russian media questioned the official version of his death – that he had died while going for a swim – and pointed out that, as a top-ranking spy, he would have been accompanied everywhere by bodyguards.

The news portal Svobodnaya Pressa also pointed out that Ivanov was the second top GRU agent to die in unexplained circumstances. Another senior agent, Yuri Gusev, was killed in 1992 in a "car accident". His fellow officers later established that he had been murdered, the paper said, adding: "Spies of that rank are well protected. As a rule, they don't die by chance."

After finding the body, Turkey's foreign ministry approached neighbouring countries for further information, with Damascus reporting that Ivanov had gone missing while on assignment in Syria.

The general was last seen visiting the building site for a new Russian military base in the Syrian coastal city of Tartus, which is being expanded as a base for Russia's Black Sea fleet.

After his visit, he left for a meeting with Syrian intelligence agents. He then went missing, the Turkish newspaper Vatan reported today.

GRU is the country's main military intelligence and reconnaissance agency, and reports directly to the general staff of Russia's armed forces. The directorate is much bigger than the KGB – which was broken up after the collapse of communism into two agencies: the foreign intelligence service, the SVR, and its domestic equivalent, the FSB.

Historically, Russia's intelligence agencies have often been fierce rivals.

The Kremlin assigned Ivanov to lead its war against Chechen separatists in 2000, and he allegedly masterminded a series of assassination attacks, which the Russian secret service carried out on Chechens living abroad. In 2004, two GRU agents killed the Chechen separatist leader Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, blowing up his SUV in Qatar.

The Qatar authorities swiftly arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment two Russian GRU spies who were said in court to have been acting under direct orders from the Russian leadership. The pair were extradited back to Russia in 2005 to serve out their sentences on home soil. Both then promptly disappeared.
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Re: The Mysterious Russian Woodpecker

Postby OldSowBreath » Thu Sep 02, 2010 4:03 pm

" I so want the resident intelligence/spy DH to comment."

As the resident intelligence/Attorney DH all I am authorized to say is:

I could tell you, but then I'd have to bill you.

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Re: The Mysterious Russian Woodpecker

Postby Peter_K » Thu Sep 02, 2010 9:01 pm

...break their chain and try to "fly", only to drop to the ground...

that is the significance of music its playing now
Very odd in itself isn't it?
Danse des petits cygnes is a famous dance from the ballet Swan Lake by Tchaikovsky, from the ballet’s second or fourth act, but has become synonymous with the choreography by Lev Ivanov. The name, translated from French, means "Dance of the Little Swans".

Ivanov's choreography—created for the famous revival of Swan Lake in 1895 — was meant to imitate the way cygnets huddle and move together for protection. Four dancers enter the stage in a line and move across with their arms crossed in front of one another, grasping the next dancer's hand. They move sideways, doing sixteen pas de chat. Ideally the dancers move in exact or near-exact unison. At the very end, they break their chain and try to "fly", only to drop to the ground.[1]

According to ballet writer Jean Battey Lewis in a 1997 NPR commentary[2] the Little Swans are usually portrayed by unknown, up-and-coming dancers. Ironically, in view of the conformity required of the quartet, being cast as a Little Swan is often seen as a chance to be singled out—noticed and given more important roles. An example of the comedic potential of this dance can be seen in the Morecambe and Wise film The Intelligence Men (1965).
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Act 2 – A mountainous wild place, surrounded by forest. In the distance a lake, on the right side of which are ruins. A moonlit night.

Siegfried aims his crossbow at the swans and readies himself for their landing by the lakeside. When one comes into view, however, he stops. Before him is a beautiful creature dressed in white feathers, more woman than swan. Enamoured, the two dance and Siegfried learns that the swan maiden is the princess Odette. An evil sorcerer, von Rothbart, captured her and used his magic to turn Odette into a swan by day and woman by night.

A retinue of other captured swan-maidens attend Odette in the environs of Swan Lake, which was formed by the tears of her parents when she was kidnapped by von Rothbart. Once Siegfried knows her story, he takes great pity on her and falls in love. As he begins to swear his love to her—an act that will render the sorcerer's spell powerless—von Rothbart appears. Siegfried threatens to kill him but Odette intercedes. If von Rothbart dies before the spell is broken, it can never be undone.

Act 3 – An opulent hall in the castle.

The Prince returns to the castle to attend the ball. Von Rothbart arrives in disguise with his own daughter Odile, making her seem identical to Odette in all respects except that she wears black while Odette wears white. The prince mistakes her for Odette, dances with her, and proclaims to the court that he intends to make her his wife. Only a moment too late, Siegfried sees the real Odette and realizes his mistake. The method in which Odette appears varies: in some versions she arrives at the castle, while in other versions von Rothbart shows Siegfried a magical vision of her.

Act 4 – Same scene by the lake as in Act 2.

Siegfried returns to the lake and finds Odette, where she forgives him after he apologizes intensely. Von Rothbart appears, trying to pull the lovers apart. The two realize the spell cannot be broken because of Siegfried's accidental pledge to Odile. In order to stay together, Odette and Siegfried kill themselves by leaping into the lake and drowning. This causes von Rothbart to lose his power over them, and he dies as a result.

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Re: The Mysterious Russian Woodpecker

Postby Sickbag » Thu Sep 02, 2010 9:40 pm

When they start playing the Nutcracker suite, that's the time to worry.
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Re: The Mysterious Russian Woodpecker

Postby IntheShade » Fri Sep 03, 2010 1:10 am

Perhaps.

If it is then things are becoming heated. I saw this story about a week ago and the Russian spy death today--but the speculation is the Russian died approx. the same time period.
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Re: The Mysterious Russian Woodpecker

Postby MZK490-1 » Tue Sep 21, 2010 1:58 am

Curious as to why this thread title features the Russian Woodpecker considering that the Russian Woodpecker was caused by the DUGA-3 "Steelyard" Over-the-horizon satellite array which ceased operations in December of 1989, when I was but a wee sprog. UVB-76 is an entirely different system.
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Re: The Mysterious Russian Woodpecker

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August 2010
There has been a spike in activity on UVB-76 in August 2010. Following messages have been detected by listeners:

On August 20, 2010 at 05:11 UTC, a garbled voice speaking Russian, was detected by amateur listeners. It made a short message with little interference and then repeated itself with noticeably more static. This followed recent activity on the station that included more static than usual and several instances of objects being moved/dropped. All of this was detected by amateur listeners and is unconfirmed at the moment.
On August 23, 2010 at 13:35 UTC, a voice speaking in Russian was detected. The voice read out a single, short transmission several times before the line went dead, then returned to its normal broadcast. As the message was transmitted on upper side-band, reception with ordinary AM receivers was weak and distorted.
The message, repeated twice, was: UVB-76, UVB-76 — 93 882 naimina 74 14 35 74 — 9 3 8 8 2 nikolai, anna, ivan, michail, ivan, nikolai, anna, 7, 4, 1, 4, 3, 5, 7, 4[11] (recording of the August 23 2010 voice transmission)
On August 25, 2010 at 11:53 GMT the following message was detected: "August 3 5 2 7 Accretion 3 6 0 9 5 6 7 3". A recording is available here mirror
It is not known whether or not these voices are that of persons physically present at the broadcast station, or if they originate elsewhere as radio transmissions and are being overheard by UVB-76's input device.

Below is a log of transmissions pertaining to 8/2010:

On August 20, 2010 at 05:11 UTC, a garbled voice speaking Russian, was detected by amateur listeners. It made a short message with little interference and then repeated itself with noticeably more static. This followed recent activity on the station that included more static than usual and several instances of objects being moved/dropped. All of this was detected by amateur listeners and is unconfirmed at the moment. On August 23, 2010 at 13:35 UTC, a voice speaking in Russian, with a pronounced Jewish accent, was detected on UVB-76. The voice read out a single, short transmission several times before the line went dead, then returned to its normal broadcast. As the message was transmitted on upper side-band, reception with ordinary AM receivers was weak and distorted. The following recording was made at UVB-76 Internet Repeater in USB Mode (Recording of the voice transmission on 4.625MHz USB 4.5kHz bandwidth)- the entire livefilestore.com site is down mere hours after this wikipedia update. The message, repeated twice, was: UVB-76, UVB-76 — 93 882 naimina 74 14 35 74 — 9 3 8 8 2 nikolai, anna, ivan, michail, ivan, nikolai, anna, 7, 4, 1, 4, 3, 5, 7, 4[10] On August 24, 2010 at approximately 04:00 UTC, a heavily distorted voice was heard by amateur listeners.[citation needed]

On August 24, 2010 at 13:25 UTC, another heavily distorted voice was detected by several amateur listeners.[citation needed]

On August 24, 2010 at 17:43 UTC, Hard to hear voices were heard over the transmission.[citation needed]

On August 24, 2010 at around 03:30 UTC, distorted voices in addition to fast beeps and pulses were heard.[citation needed]

On August 25, 2010 around 06:13 UTC, Random knocks or shuffles as if someone is in the room, changes in tone randomly.[citation needed]

On August 25, 2010 at 06:45 UTC, A grumble or garbled sound appeared out of nowhere for 389 ms.[citation needed]

On August 25, 2010 at 06:54 UTC, Another transmission occurred. (Recording of the fifth voice transmission) A new sequence/pattern with a chirping/crank noise occured on top of the previous buzzer. At times this new noise made the old buzzing noise barely audible.The message content was: "UVB-76. UVB-76. 38, 527. Akkreciya. 36, 09, 55, 73.".[citation needed]

On August 25, 2010 at 18:07 UTC, Morse code could be heard behind the buzzer signal. It lasted until approximately 18:20 UTC. At approximately 18:08 UTC A tone was heard in the background followed by a short message.[citation needed]
Christ! Someone needs a hobby...

"Say Verne, I was listening as I always have to that shortwave station 24/7 and guess what?"


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