If you have a shortwave receiver, tune it to 4625 kHz. You’ll hear something that on the surface sounds strange, but the reality is even stranger still. According to the BBC, the radio station broadcasts from two locations inside Russia — and has since 1982 — but no one claims ownership of the station, known as MDZhB. According to the BBC:
[For 35 years, MDZhB] has been broadcasting a dull, monotonous tone. Every few seconds it’s joined by a second sound, like some ghostly ship sounding its foghorn. Then the drone continues.
Once or twice a week, a man or woman will read out some words in Russian, such as “dinghy” or “farming specialist”. And that’s it.
If you don’t have a shortwave handy, you can always try one of the many web-based software defined radios. Search for 4.6 MHz, and pick a location that should have propagation to Russia and you are all set.
The BBC mentions the station started in 1982, but actually the station has changed identity several times and appears to have started in 1973. The station is known as UVB-76, “the buzzer,” ZhUOS, and MDZhB. In addition to cryptic messages, there have been occasional reports of background conversation, indicating the transmitter has staff and an open microphone.
What could it mean? No one knows. One time an enigmatic “COMMAND 135 ISSUED” message appeared on the frequency. There is speculation that if the broadcasts were to stop it would initiate an automatic nuclear retaliation. Others think it is an emergency frequency that would only be activated if Russia were under attack.
We’ve talked about spy stations on shortwave, before. If you are starting your own spy ring, you probably ought to read this.
Maybe that’s the only thing keeping the aliens at bay?
That is the aliens, cleverly keeping us wrapped up with the mystery of MDZhB so that our attention to the aliens is diverted.
Don”t you know nuthin’? Sheez!
Don’t forget 4321 seems to have morse code blasting on it constantly.
Why is this all of a sudden a thing again. This is a coordination channel for military command. You can hear this buzzer received at the command post in most (all?) military drafting commissariats. They are probably interested in knowing when to start preparations for military events.
We need to send Tom Cruise there…
Why? To see how well a Layland Badger copes with Russia’s terrain as opposed to the Birdsville Track?
And there is a 150 page long discussion (in Russian) on the RadioScanner forum – http://www.radioscanner.ru/forum/topic12415.html . Google translate may be able to deal with that if you don’t read Russian.
Furthermore, there are even scans of shift logs. Pretty boring stuff, actually.
Nice to have some actual facts introduced to the wild conspiracy theories!
That’s a radio beacon to mark the “Earth Intergalactic Park” conservation area. Generally, the rules are similar with these ones: https://www.galapagos.org/travel/travel/park-rules/
For the exact details, please see:
Quite the long game here just for the HaD Prize 2018 launch, guys
Why hasn’t anyone mentioned the TV series ‘LOST’ yet?
Terrible ending. Best to forget all about it.
Agree!
+1
Was it all just a dream of a mentally-challenged boy staring into a snow globe?
I cannot believe nobody replied to your snow globe comment: I suppose the readers here are all too young to understand the reference…
I would stay and chat, but I need to go now: Dr. Nice Eyes is calling…
There are such points! They are in Russia and the United States. I used to live near one of them. If they stop transmitting the signal, then the “nuclear retaliation” regime is turned on. And the rest of the world will not matter at all, why and from what side the reason. Everyone will have a full (fucked up) end….
has there ever been reports of someone trying to jam the channel?
isnt this “just” another number station?
there are a few forums dedicated to recording and tracking number stations.
One great resource for more info on the buzzer is http://priyom.org/military-stations/russia/the-buzzer .
This is a great site with current info on the buzzer and other military stations.
Not to mention that they were the first ones to find the current transmitter site.
Thanks for the info.
You can clearly hear the signal via http://websdr.ru
The HAD effect strikes again, I get “File not available. ” when I hit that link.
I actually think this is for certain countries (enemies of Great Mother Russia, wink wink). Correct me if I am wrong.
here is a a place you can tune in live
http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/
Speaking of Wideband SDR, I used to listen to tune into Loran on 100 kHz occasionally to hear to teletypewriter-like chatter, since it is dead here in the USA. Seems today, it is off the air even in Europe. Anyone else hear it lately?
“….has been broadcasting a dull, monotonous tone…”
Are you sure its not just BBC radio 3?
I’m skeptical of the ‘go silent in nuclear war’ argument. For one thing, an attacker could simply mimic the signal.
Mostly likely its a joke started by a teenager long ago and now continued well into midlife. He’s reading these posts and laughing at the speculation.