The 'Ticking Clock' was the Russians answer to propaganda during the siege of Stalingrad, the message which said (Every 6 seconds a German soldier dies in Stalingrad) and the ticking repeated itself all day.
@@coyoteranger - Yep. I recommend the book "The 900 Days: The Siege Of Leningrad" for anyone feeling sorry for themselves. Leningrad's broadcast would have been "Every second a bunch of citizens of Leningrad starve to death at which point some others don't because they ate the ones who did." Seriously, they were the healthy looking ones still walking around.
The ticking has now turned into a loop of an air raid alarm. I don't think it will get to the top of the music charts over here, but I'm sure someone will try dancing to it
The ticking clock sounds like the metronome that was broadcast in Leningrad during the seige aka the Heartbeat of Leningrad. Faster meant an air raid, slower meant things were safe.
@nopzhki-busha *Good evening Sir, I’m David, an American Radio Signal’s enthusiast, and I was hoping you would be so kind as to explain how you came to learn about this interesting Historical WW2 Signals Topic?? ..Or, where you originally heard about this interesting explanation?? ..ie “The ticking clock sounds like the Metronome that was broadcast during the siege-aka the heartbeat of Leningrad. Faster meant an air raid, slower meant things were safe.” ..I would very much like to know the origins of your interesting comments. Thank You in advance, “Bush Legs” ~ David
Brilliant, Lewis! I would say that, with the quality and choice of topics you cover in these videos, you have probably been single-handedly responsible for lots of folks getting into radio hobby. Best of all, it's not just content geared toward ham radio nerds (like me). There's also plenty that any shortwave, longwave, vhf, or uhf listener can get into, It's a great reminder of just how vast and varied radio listening can be - no transmission necessary. Cheers! 🙂
"no transmission necessary" Very true, I started in 1978 as a Short Wave listing station BRS41712 and gave QSL reports to the big transmitters like Voice of America, Canada Broadcasting Corporation and a few more. Many early nights with four valve receivers keeping me warm burning through my Dads electricity. Reporting signal levels when transmitters change antennas to beam to another continent. Later went up to VHF satellites and tracked Noaa, Meterosat and the Russian space station with Richard G8NDD. Then down to LF to hear Subs with moderate success moved on to tracking Pirate stations then Got my G8 licence and went on the air, bounced signals of the moon etc did the clubs Direction finding events with G8UZZ which was fun and back to listening for Slow scan TV, RTTY (news wire)giving my Dad the news from Reuters and AP before the BBC and the newspapers, via three Creed teleprinters (still have them). Weather satellites gave me a picture of the Earth via two Muirhead weather fax machines. If I added up the weight of all my kit it would be several hundred Kg, So your observation " listening reminds us that it can and is more fun than transmitting" is spot on and with SDR and Lewis's help a hoppy you can take anywhere without a 30 foot tower. I am expecting the 'Woodpecker back any time soon'. Best G8WOF
Back in the 70s I used to listen to American Forces Network (Germany) from my bedroom in Scunthorpe on Long Wave. It was like a peek into a different world. Wolfman Jack and the occasional episode of The Shadow (I could only pick it up at night, but before midnight UTC - rarely it propagated in the hours up to dawn - from memory, and that's something like 45 years ago)
I wish there was more to hear on long wave. All I get where I live is the morse ID from the local airport non-directional beacon. It's very spooky but gets old after a few minutes.
I sent you a message on the twitters about 6911kHz. It surprised me to find it there. Listening via everyone’s favorite webSDR out of The Netherlands. Keep up the awesome work!
I have this, 6930 USB for the past 3 days just after sunset. I am in Connecticut USA. Several others on the East Coast are hearing it. Thanks for all your videos.
also sounds like the call signal of my old probably not legal, and long since unplugged and chucked in a box UHF 'long range' cordless POT port telephone I had linked to my parents house until we got a phone at our new house.
@ChristophDeClercq-mj1pk wasn't meant as an offense. Native speaking people are doing the exact same thing, but I never understood why. English is not my first language as well, so I am far from perfect also ☺️
@@ChristophDeClercq-mj1pkYou said a double negative. "Don't know nothing" We English speakers find them fascinating, like a little puzzle to solve. Brain candy. You can say either "I know nothing" or "I don't know anything" to be correct. But double negatives are actually used on purpose by some to convey informality or a disregard for rules. Like street language, or folksy rural talk.
I will always remember being in front of the DUGA-1 OTH radar... I though I had one of my HF radio in my backpack and start talking to the entire world, that was a very special moment in my life trust me. 73 de ON6CV.
encrypted transmissions spread over several frequencies. the ones that sound like a steady and repeating pulse seems like a timing signal. the steady "noise" on other frequencies (looks like static or a jamming signal) is the carrier of the encoded information. even the type of antenna used can add to the security of the signal, as having the appropriate antenna type to pick up the transmission is necessary, such as forcing a vertical or horizontal polarity using special reflector configurations.
That Military Signal is the countdown to WWE Wrestlemania where Putin will make the Grand Entrance while The Final Countdown is playing in the background for WWE United States Champion
4:34 DTMF tones. Reminds me of a string of DTMF tones used on modified pocket DTMF dialers that were used in the United States back in the 1980s and 1990 to make free telephone calls from payphones. The modified dialers were known as "Red Boxes"
Well, it IS probably a modem, I'd imagine that's just its idle sound. No way to know for sure because it seems like nobody picked up something that wasn't that idle tone.
So, some notes about the channel markers. As mentioned on the previous video on these, I found a total of 6 of these, all pipping at the same frequency and cadence and seemingly the ones I could see together were synchronised. The frequencies are 5780, 5838, 6218, 6230, 6402, 6930. Best received in Northern Europe I've found. Finland/Sweden for example. Very specifically, if you get a strong signal reception, you will hear that the background noise is actually being transmitted with the pip. Which would make me suspect they're being retransmitted (the noise being the background noise rising from a slow AGC on the receiver). Also note that the width of this noise seems to be a pretty much identical to a 3khz voice channel. Suggesting all of these are also designed to carry voice or at the very least are being transmitted on a standard voice USB radio. Maybe the plan is the same voice at all these frequencies to make it harder to jam them all perhaps?
I enjoyed the Yaessu FTdx9000 you had in your thumbnail. I wanted one of those for so long. Actually got too operate one at W1AW a few times. On to a relavent comment to the video - the concept of numbers stations fascinates me. I'm glad to have found your channel and have been enjoying your content. And not just the number station related
Nice video, thank you! I verified the signals during watching the video: Most of them are good to hear with R5 S7-8 here in the west of Germany. I use a RSPdx and a Moonraker Scanking discone 0.05-2000 MHz.
the "phone" signal that you show starting @ 4:00 has numerical info in it.... the length of each tone is different (as in seven pulses in one tone, then 5 pulses in the next, then 6, etc) AND the length of time between each tone varies too - it's quite easy to see the pattern on screen.... THIS is the info that is being transmitted... well.. SOME of the info
It's important to have cryptographers and codebreakers to study these signals. Not only to crack them but to make them as well. It was a massive game changer when Alan Turing and Gordon Welchman cracked the German Enigma machine during WW2.
Do the buzzers always sound like an old dot matrix printer? Also, is it possible that some of these pips are time markers for some sort of image data that just looks like static in the waterfall?
Stations such as this one may be a component of the Perimeter system, also known as "Dead Hand". If these signals are interrupted, a signal is received by Perimeter which adds to its logic in determining if a nuclear strike has occurred on Soviet ^h^h^h^h^h^h Russian soil. My point is that the sudden emergence of these signals may be a preparatory addition to Perimeter, adding sensors and thus redundancy to a very very dangerous automated counter strike system. This signal may exist only to be extinguished by enemy action and give the alarm for Russian action.
Maybe just a way to monitor for internal issues within Russia there were protests in Siberia some months ago and also the current ongoing "Free Russia Legion" actions inside of Russia, taking over border towns and military bases. They have many internal risks.
Yeah, you can spend days trying to analyze what strange signals people have heard and I have heard just some crazy sounding stuff. Thanks for the video.
The rotary one sounds like a 1970's remote transmitter controller that was on a uhf link to the FM broadcast transmitter on the mountain. It had a rotary phone dial, and dialing in codes would allow us to take remote readings on the transmitter and the engineer could adjust things too.
to the sides of the pips it looks like JS8 or winlink packet traffic, perhaps some phase shift keying for messaging over shortwave? and the "pip" could be a replacement for the "heartbeat" so you tune to the pip and then tune the offset for the message to be received though i could be over-analyzing it, great video, reminds me that i need to get better at shortwave tuning on SDR.
@@JustAGuyYaKnow42 nope, just pirates and trolls. Russian military suspended all comms on broad band at the end of 2022. From 2023 to now it's only "I'm on air/active" check up signals for redundancy sake.
Back in military college we take Countdown Clocks 101. The first lesson is it’s probably best to not let your enemy know your plans via countdown clocks.
Very interesting I just turned on my uSDX+ using a 40m EFLW across the garden and got 5 out 6 of the Russian ones but not the 2 French CW ones. Probably wrong time..
I love these videos. I found your channel only a few months ago. I was in the royal corps of signals as a cadet and always wanted a C.B radio. If I wanted to get involved in SW monitoring what would be the best budget friendly device for someone with limited time wanting to dip their toe in please guys?
I heard the sirens on my xhdata D219 yesterday but it’s never great at telling me the frequency precisely, despite great pickup. When I tried it on my D808 I couldn’t find it again. Thanks for letting us know the frequency
RCV/Sevastopol (Russian Navy) is active in the 80 meter band from 17:00 UTC most evenings. Hand sent CW broadcasts on 3797 khz, often lasting over an hour.
I have a cheap SDR - I got it to pick up a couple of different FM channels but it does not exactly decode the Stereo sub-carrier... - maybe I did not readily see whatever button to click - or I should try other SDR software...
Given how advanced our technology is at filtering out static and noise to produce a clean signal, I really have to wonder why those signals have so much static and noise in them. Honestly, it makes me thing that the static and noise is actually deliberately injected into the signal and is a cover for hiding transmission data under a disguise of what would have been static and noise for older systems from decades ago. With moderate transmission tech, there really isn't a reason most countries should be having so much static and noise in their transmission. It just seems like one of those mind game things, where someone pretends something is a technical problem in order to hide something else they are doing on purpose.
Wow, easily spotted Russian agitator much? Not doing a very good job at hiding and being subtle are you? If that kind of unprofessional display is what we should expect from Russian operatives, then I guess we could assume that they would also cheep out on their radio systems... but then why would they cheep out on their radio systems when they do have decades of experience in making and improving those systems AND have invested reasons to use subtle tricks. Didn't even do a good job hiding your Russian origins in your profile. That completely defeats the purpose of counter intelligence and preforming psy-ops against a rival nations civilian population, if you can be so easily spotted and ratted out. Your commander should fire you for neglect.
@@brickbunny9686 omg. Ukrainians also use Cyrillic letter, okay? If text has ї, і and є it's ukrainian Looks like are really deep in conspiracy theories
The only reason to say something like "Improve your knowledge" in the current conversation is to agitate. If you didn't want to be called out, you shouldn't have commented in the first place. You communist dictator types can't handle the smallest bit of criticism. The truth of anything scares you. You rely on lies, brute force and deceptive shame/guilt/fear head games for power. So of course you would reply with such an opening comment and then react with "OMG Conspiracy theorist," when you get caught.
If you didn't want to be called out, you shouldn't have opened up with an insulting first comment. What Ukrainian would even want to be offensive like that, especially when Americans are supplying them with weapons to defend against Russia's invasion of the Ukrainian country? Communist regimes threw out history have shown they can't handle the smallest bit of criticism and and go out of there way to suppress anyone who says anything that remotely criticizes them. The truth always terrifies communist, so of course "Conspiracy theorist" is another one of those shame/guilt/fear head games communist play.
Dead man’s switch… each listening facility listens for two different transmissions. There are also almost imperceptible changes in frequency which allow the listening facility to verify the authenticity of the transmission. If both signals (that the facility is currently listening to) go offline or the signal is incorrect, launch sequence is automatically initiated.
It’s the countdowns until the new Top-40 hits station starts broadcasting on the frequency! (U.S. Broadcasters would sometimes do that when format shifts would happen at a station but they weren’t ready for launch yet but still wanted to maintain signal on the frequency. Or for publicity. Mostly the latter I think. Just like these.)
