We are on fire. We need help. We broadcast on these frequencies, stay tuned. (Cheery music plays) On the other hand I finally got ahold of lots of strange numbers being spoken, it's quite neat.
About 28 years ago, while attempting to phone my local tv station (who were broadcasting a telethon at the time and taking pledges over the phone) my call was answered by a recording of a woman's voice reeling off a meaningless (seemingly) series of numbers. I wondered at the time if my call had accidentally connected to something to do with espoinage (I was a teenager with a fertile imagination) and my claims were derisively dismissed by my scornful family. Yet, the same thing happened a year or so later when the tv station invited viewers to call in pledges for another telethon. I'm now convinced I got misrouted to some kind of numbers station.
@/dev/etresevo Proof please. If you know something about Number Stations that I don't than I would like to see your cited resources. I could easily say Number Stations are transmissions from the "Gaylord Delta" galaxy without citing my proof.
Long before i discovered the Internet, i dabbled in SW radio in my teen years & yes, i have stumbled upon those strange signals while i was frequency surfing. Doubt very much those signals were made by some real-life "Dharma Initiative".
I occasionally like to look at YT videos archiving vintage and/or odd broadcasting phenomenon, and I've heard about UVB-76. I wonder if the urban explorers who supposedly entered the building (Wikipedia is not always the most reliable source) captured any photos or videos during their expedition? I had to watch this vid a second time before finally being able to follow that number encryption demonstration without my mind imploding. Math was never my strong suit.
In fact, there are photos, a lot, and it was definitely visited. But since 2011-2013, UVB-76 operates in different transmitter site, but still with the same tech analogue-buzzer and procedures
flyingpan954 In Russia, everything that is strategic and can be moved, will be moved. If they could run MDZhB (UVB-76) out of a converted missile truck, they would.
Shortwave radio was great back in the 80's. But there was a real rock shortwave station, WRNO form New Orleans, LA. You also forgot to mention the Woodpecker station, a Russian Jamming station (not Bob Marley, but radio interference)
DrHillbillyShow heard that Chernobyl was a cover up for DUGA-3, it was to hide the price of DUGA (because it's price was something like 10,000,000 rubles to build where as Chernobyl was only something like 6 or 7,000,000 rubles)from the public and to keep people from getting close to it.
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DUGA was up and running a LONG time before 1986. Chernobyl was an unauthorized test of an emergency shut down that should not have been done.
Fun fact: Number stations and morse code are also sampled by new radio stations testing their equipment. strangesounds.org/2014/03/mystery-creepy-broadcast-heard-on-portlands-radio-frequency-91-1-fm-video.html
Ben i would love it if you made a pirate radio video. Its such a cool phenomenon i wish it still existed. Then again pirate radio stations nowadays would probably just be conspiracy theory garbage
The song is "Man Of Action" by Les Reed, and was used by Radio Northsea International as a signature theme: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NXKgpYyT8t4.html
2:52 my god, that dire distress call with bouncy music bed is creepy as hell. Did they just not have time to turn the record off, or, were they overlapping another station?
I strongly recommend Tracking The Lincolnshire Poacher where victorialucas38 added graphics and video to a BBC Radio documentary (and very nicely done it is too)
Apparently the UVB-76 signal is broadcast from said military site (formerly in the vicinity of Povorovo), in a isolated room, possibly in a underground level.
there was a mistake, which resulted turning microphone on during a maintaince - there is a recording on a SoundCloud, and this record has quite a lot people discussing orders and callouts, so probably its not so very abandoned :D
flyingpan954 That's no mistake, Russian Army radio techs show up to test the microphone occasionally. UVB-76 is a combo shortwave beacon and "parked" frequency for the Western Military District (includes Moscow and St. Petersburg); if something bad happened, that frequency would go from buzzing to scrambled voice or fax tones.
Swedish Rhapsody was (almost certainly) the East German Stasi. I could hear it well after the fall of the wall, as old Stasi agents still follow people and communicate with each other out of spite. I have not heard Swedish Rhapsody since the advent of Facebook. Not to say there is a connection.
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Swedish Rhapsody was WEST German. The Stasi used a chime pattern called 'gong.'
DrHillbillyShow Aha, interesting. I have been living a lie ;0). Seriously, though, I have heard the gong as well thinking that was from West Germany. Thanks for the correction.
+IudiciumInfernalum Priyom.org says it's a Polish station (their code for it is "G02".) German was a common language used by Warsaw Pact spying agencies.
If anyone is wondering what the woman says afterwards, it’s “Es folgen Mitteilungen für ...”, which means “The following are messages for ...”/“Stand by for messages for ...”
At 5:20, its using the NATO phonetic alphabet. It's gotta be some old military/espionage station from the cold war. Now I wonder what N and U stand for...
In East Germany were two stations claiming to be West German pirate stations from West German comnunists - they had strange messages as "a message to tea party - the cake is burnt".
The Jamming sound is common during # stations,subversive talk shows & so on. The erratic sounds are to peek the jammers ERP & make it hard to to hear the audio of the voice. I think a 1khz tone would work best.
This Cryptography nerd needs to point out - the cipher you're discussing is based on modular numbers, like on a clock. Imagine a long string of all the letters of the alphabet, A to Z, numbered 0 to 25. Now curl that string up in a loop, such that Z connects to A. Thinking of it this way, once you hit a number greater than 25, you can count from 25 up to that number. So, say you have the number 27 as your resulting number from the adding process. 27 is 2 away from 25. Therefore, the 27 encodes as the letter B. Why do I point this out? Because the way it's described in the video is kinda confusing.
Sometimes they had messages as "A message to crocodile, sharpen your teeth" or "A message to Tea Party, the cake burnt in the oven" or "A message to night watch, tonight it's darker" or "A message to Rumpelstiltskin, Snow White isn't trustworthy"
Angel Wolff Nope, you're not. Because a dozen others have already used it, btw, we can both use number stations in our stories, but I wouldn't center my piece around it
The "Tyrolean Music Station" was explained several years ago by a former member of French intelligence. It was made to freak out the Germans, during a Franco German period of instability in the seventies. So, technically it wasn't a number station. It was what was called a "Black Clandestine". Those still exist, but their heyday in Europe was during WWII.
What he is explaining in the video is technically not an OTP. An OTP has a key that is entirely random and is as long as the message to be encrypted. What he displays is a form of vigenere. The nature of the repeating key actually allows you under certain circumstances to recover a message. OTP,, when correctly applied, is actually *absolutely* unbreakable.
They have a name of the Rusian Station Wrong. It`s not UVB-76' I`m bretty sure it`s UZB-76. thats what the russian guy says. "U-Ze-Be- Semdesit Shest" I think cosnpiracy people made a mistake :-)
+Tiza123m That has been speculated, that it was misheard. But as of now it goes by MDZhB, it no longer goes by UVB-76 anymore, even though everyone still calls it that. It changed to "MDZhB" because of the station moving its location back in 2010.
+Tiza123m You are correct, it was UZB-76. Station is combination beacon/signal placeholder for the Russian Central Military District; if anything major happens the 5kW transmitter will switch over to being a part of the Russian Army radio network, probably transmitting encrypted digital messages.
Way back in the Cold War, in the days of dinosaurs (1980s), when I was your age, I was in the Army, in sigint/EW/voice intercept, I wasn't in a strategic unit, so I wasn't listening in all that often. But when we played Army, we would encounter thses stations every so often. We didn't have time to give them much heed, since we were playing war and our focus was local and tactical. I'm pretty sure strategic units doing DF were able to get LOBs on these stations and get an approximate location. But I do know that a good portion of these stations were part of espionage and counterintelligence, Oh, and ask me about jamming,
that high pitched bleeping is the lincolnshire poacher being jammed I think, which is ambitious because it was a huge array that sat inside RAF akitori FYI. it was running into the 2000s but is definitely shut down and probably routed through the internet now.
Octavia Bannon-Clark Routing a numbers station through the Internet would negate the anonymity of the recipient as even with the use of VPNs and the likes government security services would be able to trace who was listening.
The ironic thing is that Radio North Sea International and The Tyrolean Music Station are believed to have been connected. One of the founders, Edwin Bollier, was believed to be a Stasi spy buying and selling technology from the East German government. This is also the reason why some of the DJs left: Because they found the ties. RNI was also known to keep cryptic transmissions during the overnight hours, one person reporting Tyrolean Music to have been played during the station's overnight hours between around 2 and 6 AM. However, don't take all of this as truth, because it might not. The theory was disspelled numerous times, but without sources, so there still is the possibility.
There are still a ton of shortwave broadcasts. Go to websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/ and scan around anywhere that's not a ham band and you will can hear shortwave broadcasts. What this is is a radio in the University of Twente (in the Netherlands I think) and you can control it from your computer a home. It's pretty cool
Maybe I am just too dense to get the jamming joke (if it is one), but for real, did you actually get jammed after only 45 mins of broadcast? Is this common? Who would do such a thing and why?
Example doesn't seem correct at all. as broadcast, one number is *was* indistinguishable from the next. (they have no obvious gaps or emphasis) - no context.
Late 60’s I had access to a shortwave radio. My brothers and I wire a long copper wire for an antenna up the side of our neighbors house and across the top of their roof. We listen to radio all over the world. We would run across these stations. Maybe you should do a bit more research. I am not a conspiracy theory believer. Still taking 5 mins you can find these were used and many still run.
