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Mysterious Radio Station UVB-76 Goes Offline
leathered writes "Tinfoil hatters around the world are abuzz that UVB-76, the Russian shortwave radio station that has been broadcasting its monotonous tone almost uninterrupted since 1982, has suddenly gone offline. Of course no one knows what the significance of this is, but best brush up on your drills just in case."
Another explanation for the constant buzzer is...radio waves are reflected from ionosphere inhomogeneities. Changes of an ionosphere state can be caused by solar geophysical or seismic events. This method involves comparing a continuous radio transmission which is reflected by the ionosphere with a stable basic generator. The continuously transmitted carrier frequency currently used for this research matches that of the Russian Buzzer (4.625 MHz).
If the ionosphere can change state from seismic events, why couldn't seismic events be changed through manipulation of the ionosphere? It is indeed possible to control large-scale events with small-scale signals with phenomina such as resonance. What of all of the earthquakes which seem to hit the people we don't like, providing opportunities to rebuild and sieze their resources as part of the growing trend of disaster capitalism, the ultimate way to make money and spread influence without declaring war?
And why is there no comparison to HAARP in that article?! From the HAARP wiki:
The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) is an ionospheric research program jointly funded by the US Air Force, the US Navy, the University of Alaska and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).Its purpose is to analyze the ionosphere and investigate the potential for developing ionospheric enhancement technology for radio communications and surveillance purposes (such as missile detection)...The current working IRI was completed in 2007, and its prime contractor was BAE Advanced Technologies.
Which is a big, big military industrial comglomerate.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to change the state of my tinfoil hat into a pipe, so I can put some more weed into it and smoke out of it.
It's a conspiracy! Damn them! This means something, but WHAT COULD IT MEAN?
"Maintenance"
#fuckbeta #iamslashdot #dicemustdie
Heard about this on 4chan's science board pretty much as soon as it happened. Couple people checked on it, and either it was only down for a very short time or it wasn't down at all, because it was up when people checked.
Maybe it won't down [again?], I don't know. Has anyone thought to double-check this?
So the main article comes from a discussion board on a conspira-blog-forum. And the description of the station in question is from Wikipedia, followed by a YouTube video in the third link. Now, don't get me wrong, I am not questioning the journalistic capabilities of the submitters, but holy-jumping-jeebus can we get an article with some legitimate [CITATION NEEDED] please. Perhaps this one was a tongue-in-cheek submission facetiously posted for the TFH crowd.
'We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.' RPF
Russian media says the station is switching to soft rock.
I dialed into 4625 KHz and I can hear the buzz, Guess it was just a maintenance down-period.
I man stepped into the boxing ring
His name was Sock'em Dazer
He took a look around and said...
Where's my Occam's Razor?
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They found it really disappointing, and figured there was no reason to push their button every 2.5 seconds. They thought the numbers had to mean something for sure, but no, not really.
All your monotonous tones belong to us
maybe the record finished?
I think this is pretty obvious.
Maybe this is just the longest viral marketing campaign ever. We'll soon find out about the game/movie ralated to this buzz... :P
It was a count down. Now the aliens will attack.
WWV All the time, all the time
What one fool can do, another can. (Ancient Simian Proverb)
There's still a freaky buzz on 4644kHz. And there's something that sounds like a movie ray gun on 4666.
FOUR SIX SIX SIX
Plenty of freaky shortwave left...
No, calm down, I'm sure it's got something to do with those pesky aliens.
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Transmission at Outpost 79
http://www.rootstrikers.org/
[discussing the Doomsday machine]
President Merkin Muffley: How is it possible for this thing to be triggered automatically and at the same time impossible to untrigger?
Dr. Strangelove: Mr. President, it is not only possible, it is essential. That is the whole idea of this machine, you know. Deterrence is the art of producing in the mind of the enemy... the FEAR to attack. And so, because of the automated and irrevocable decision-making process which rules out human meddling, the Doomsday machine is terrifying and simple to understand... and completely credible and convincing.
What one fool can do, another can. (Ancient Simian Proverb)
I can confirm I hear nothing on that frequency.... I doubt I should be able to hear a 10kW station near Moscow at 4625kHz this far after sunrise there though, so that's not saying much.
If anyone here can understand German, take a listen and report back what it says!
http://media.abovetopsecret.com/media/6950/UVB-76_06052010_2030_MP3/
Fast-forward to the end... sounds like a news broadcast to me.
They didn't receive their stimulus check...
I just asked the folks at QRZ if anyone can confirm this. Hopefully someone there has good gear for checking on it.
Matthew Walker
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In Capitalist West you watch weather satellite orbits fail.
In Soviet Russia BP oil expertise funds a new communications network for you.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Maybe someone just opened the electric bill...
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
"So we cut the power to that computer over in the corner. What was it doing, no-longer Comrade..."
"I don't know, fellow Capitalist, the guy who put it in drank himself to death"
"Ah, nothing important then I'm sure"
Russia and Iran ended a day of talks on Iran's nuclear program without any apparent breakthrough.
That was Feb 21 2006
Search Results
1. ... ... Iraq's government openly praised the attacks of September 11.
CNN.com - President Bush's address to the United Nations
Sep 12, 2002
The transmission on Sept 12, 2002
Dec 24 1997
hmm
American Charged With Spying Allowed to Leave Russia
or
Iran Holds Russian Aid Shipment Bound for Iraq
My guess is that it relays messages to spies, and hopefully that's the end of it, and not as suggested a signal to that dead man system.
Otherwise the countdown has begun.
Let us know. While everyone is saying it down, no one has really confirmed that it's true.
~ Mooga
Come now, not a single hunk of wire laying around, no gutters, no bedsprings?
Strange things are afoot at the Circle-K.
The RIAA got them. The buzztone was already under copyright by Britteny Spears.
For one thing, you'll notice that the conspiracy nuts are, well, always wrong. They have an abysmal track record throughout history and in modern times. Well, with a trend like that, it is pretty safe to say that they'll continue to be wrong. Same sort of thing with any crackpot thing that has been wrong time and time again. I mean just because ESP has failed every test doesn't prove beyond any and all doubt that it doesn't exist in some form... But it gives really strong evidence of that fact, and thus makes it pretty safe to say that indeed it's BS.
The other thing is that the people who are in to conspiracies seem to have extremely poor logic skills. They ignore obvious evidence, jump at tenuous connections, straight out make shit up, and place more faith in that which can't be proven than that which can. As such, the conclusions they draw are very likely wrong. When you use a bad logical process, your conclusion usually isn't right. That's just how things go. The scientific method, logical principles, and so on aren't random. It is the stuff that works reliably for separating truth from fiction. So when you fail to use it, well your results are probably incorrect.
So yes, just because you are a paranoid, psychotic nut job who thinks there's a conspiracy probably DOES mean there isn't a conspiracy. If you bet against them, you'd make plenty of money.
The last sentence on http://sites.google.com/site/stationuvb76 states: "As of January 17, 2010 at the latest many available map viewing services that provide satellite imagery have the UVB-76 station darkened or removed entirely. Of interest to note is the fact that seemingly unrelated buildings in close proximity are also blacked out." I cannot find any verification yet, however. Weird.
This is clearly an ionospheric sounder, same as the numbers stations. These things are used during communications planning for a military exercise.
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
So um... Has anyone thought about going out there to ask what it's been doing for 28 years?
Comrade,
Fear not- our transmitter is down but we have now regained contact with you.
Message body follows:
Schuka-4-7-1-2-9-4-0-2-Anna-Anna-Pavel-Larisa-Konstantin. Uliyana-9-3-3-8-0-2 Oksana-Pavel 9-3. 1-6-4-4-0-Tatiana
0-0-0-0
Except that the light was SpaceX's Falcon 9
http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/06/05/1951233/SpaceXs-Falcon-9-Appears-As-UFO-In-Australia
http://www.khaaan.com/
I've lost track; how many years has Kirk been yodeling into the ether like that?
-FL
The court subpoenaed my hard drive and RIAA lawyers representing the KGB found a compressed audio file of the station's entire broadcast history in my Kazaa folder.
maybe Sealab really blew up for good this time.
Monstar L
Or that's what you would like us to think.
The flight was only a little over 9min30sec
The flight went into orbit. Maybe the video went that long.
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This is pretty spooky, I mean the conspiracy theories are kind of warranted considering this station's eerie history.
Someone must have been funding a station that has lasted since 1982 and is powerful to be heard world wide. I have done a little bit of amateur radio and I know that in order to do that you need some serious power, a huge antenna, and quite a bit of constant maintenance. It is definitely not a stretch to think that this station was/is run by the Russian Government as at the very minimum for some sort of testing or maybe as an emergency broadcasting system during a disaster.
However, I really doubt its part of the Dead Hand system. I would think they would use something more secure if the dead hand system was under automatic control. If there is any possibility that it is part of the Dead Hand system than the Dead Hand system is certainly a system that requires some sort of human intervention due to possibilities of interference, false positives, or someone over riding the system to send a the activation codes.
Just my 2 cents, I am certainly no conspiracy theorist but it is always fun to think about the possibilities. There is plenty of stuff that we simply don't know about; however, I do hope that the some of the theories are real because than at least I would know that our government has a high enough level of competence to actually keep fool us in a significant way.
Maybe they finally finished typing out the message in morse code?
I hear the translation was something like:
Hi Mom! The camp counselors insist we learn to use ham radio to communicate with you. Hope this reaches you before you die. Love, Junior.
"If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you." - DM
Don't panic! Don't panic! Fix bayonets!
They don't like it up 'em, you know.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Before I read this, I had no idea this thing existed.
Now, I am consumed with an overwhelming need to discover the reason for this transmission. I will not be able to rest until I have discovered the secret. This transmission is now the most important thing in my life.
DAMN YOU!
I don't believe in time. It's a grand conspiracy designed to sell watches.
It is obviously the Dharma Initiative, that is running out of funds.
Assume the nuclear protection position: put your head between your knees and kiss your ass goodbye.
Listens to (and often records) these stations non stop to know the 3 or 4 times in 20 years that something actually happened.
...to describe something that never happens.
did you hear that sample at wikipedia? what an annoying sound to be broadcasting over the air! as an avid shortwave listener am glad it is gone, i also like listening to pirate broadcasts (unlicensed radio) which broadcast with low power and are on the air for short periods of time so they are hard to catch but with a good radio & antenna and a little spare time it can be done, but shortwave listening is a love/hate relationship when it comes to trying to catch that elusive pirate broadcast, what i hate is when they do something lame like play music because DX SSB is scratchy with lighting crashes and static, tolerable for two-way communication or monologues or dialogs (voice) but terrible for music, and most of the time the same music i can find on a local FM broadcast station or your average music CD collection, i would rather hear something rare and interesting, informative & insightful.
Politics is Treachery, Religion is Brainwashing
i hear some voice communications, i can barely hear it, its down in the noise floor, but it is in there.
spring time is a bad time for HF radio, all the thunderstorms make a mess out of the airwaves, especially on the lower half of the spectrum
Politics is Treachery, Religion is Brainwashing
Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda...
Here you go: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/06/05/oh-those-falcon-ufos/ Knowledge is power.
"How can you investigate something if you are not open to it?" ... If it exists, you'll be able to investigate it whether you believe in it or not. The only things that only work when you believe in them are delusions.
"Actually, being a scientist doesn't entitle you to be a closed-minded prick.."
Believing in ESP doesn't make you open-minded; it makes you gullible.
I am scientifically inaccurate.
That's not a conspiracy theory. That's a fact. That doesn't stop the loonies ascribing all sorts of scary spooky tales to what it does, but it's no massive secret.
Radio transmitters do not go "offline". They go "off the air".
Yeah, but they still haven't forgiven Eastwood for stealing that plane back in 1982.
(Kids these days. Nowadays they just browse the web for cultural references.)
...by the 1.3 second period modulation. This is the worlds slowest CW Morse code transmission. The last 'dit' lasted 28 years.
Have gnu, will travel.
Mark my words, somebody will click on this link and regret it.
You assume their goal is to be right more often than wrong. That may not be true. Many "nuts" may accept the fact that each case is a long-shot, but tolerate long-shots to get at the few rare juicy nuggets of real conspiracies.
You are comparing it to basketball, where each attempt has a roughly 45% chance of succeeding. However, it may be more like soccer, where the vast majority of goal attempts fail, yet games are won by that rare lucky hit. Despite the lower hit rate, it's still the most popular sport.
Some enjoy those kind of ratios. That does not make them "irrational", for they are doing it for the emotional payoff, not as a day career. They would rather have rare but high-value hits than many hits of low value.
Look at it this way: if you are a video gamer, even if you are better than everybody else you just get trophy and some money at best. If the conspiracy fan hits right, they can change the world, the actual politics and governments that run the world.
Table-ized A.I.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McFRonD-sjg
Table-ized A.I.
Why not just triangulate the transmitter, then walk to the source, and say "hey there, what's all this then?"
A slashdotter who didn't build his own computer is like a Jedi who didn't build his own lightsaber.
They were bought by ClearChannel. They will return as a Classic Rock station playing Hotel California and Stairway To Heaven seven times a day.
Definitely up and running, although people say it's been a little inconsistent.
Matthew Walker
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If the person had actual evidence of this place's existence, while it was not known, then they are a conspiracy theorist. If they just guessed that something like this was in the works, without any actual evidence to show so, and claimed that it definitely existed, they are a paranoid fantasist. There's a difference.
Also don't forget the American streetcar scandal, in which several corporations--including GM, Firestone, and Standard Oil (now Chevron/Exxon?)--were convicted in court of conspiracy. Ever wonder why you jump in your 2000+ pound car to travel in the US while pumping out greenhouse emissions, when Europe has trains and trolleys? It's because of a conspiracy.
Also, it could be that the UVB-76 buzzer was designed to make people wonder what it did, to make big goofs write comments on slashdot /*looks at self*/, instead of pursuing more useful inquiries. Kind of like the slow release of JFK shooting materials to occupy those particular, uhhh, conspiracy theorists.
When you use a bad logical process, your conclusion usually isn't right. That's just how things go. The scientific method, logical principles, and so on aren't random. It is the stuff that works reliably for separating truth from fiction. So when you fail to use it, well your results are probably incorrect.
Wow. You've obviously never had an argument with my girlfriend before. And lost.
K.
(Inside joke) - NMCI simply took it over, that's all.
I loaded up my apartment's gutters on 80m back in the early 90's and had phones ringing for miles. Oops!
Tiller's Rule: Never use a word in written form that you've only heard and never read. You will end up looking foolish.
After nearly three decades the source of an annoying buzz emanating form the center of Russia has been determined. Radio operators at a secret military base have been broadcasting the buzz of their fluorescent lighting for nearly 30 years.. "We couldn't stand the blasted environment that they kept us working in." says an unnamed soldier. "We've been here since the friggin' Cold War listening to this crap, while the whole country changed around us. To protest we simply switched on the radio and let her go." As part of a cost saving effort by the Russian military, all military buildings are being converted to high efficiency lighting, replacing the original noisy ballasts with compact fluorescent canisters. "The lighting quality is still crap, but at least the noise is gone."
That's freakin' awesome. I always wanted to try the couple miles or so of electric fence we had back on the farm, but never had a tuner back then.
Strange things are afoot at the Circle-K.