Posted on 08/03/2017 5:53:59 PM PDT by MtnClimber
“MDZhB” has been broadcasting since 1982. No one knows why.
In the middle of a Russian swampland, not far from the city of St Petersburg, is a rectangular iron gate. Beyond its rusted bars is a collection of radio towers, abandoned buildings and power lines bordered by a dry-stone wall. This sinister location is the focus of a mystery which stretches back to the height of the Cold War.
It is thought to be the headquarters of a radio station, “MDZhB”, that no-one has ever claimed to run. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, for the last three-and-a-half decades, it’s 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. Anyone, anywhere in the world can listen in, simply by tuning a radio to the frequency 4625 kHz.
It’s so enigmatic, it’s as if it was designed with conspiracy theorists in mind. Today the station has an online following numbering in the tens of thousands, who know it affectionately as “the Buzzer”. It joins two similar mystery stations, “the Pip” and the “Squeaky Wheel”. As their fans readily admit themselves, they have absolutely no idea what they are listening to.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Sounds like old code book transmissions to soviet spies.
Boris has a long mustache.
Like a classic “numbers” station or something. The article opens with a scene that could have started an episode of The Avengers.
S32, The “Squeaky Wheel”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxTOK-cZpsg
Like numbers stations, many countries have them, like Cuba, for example.
They’re instructions for deep cover agents living their lives out abroad.
UVB-76/MDZhB-voice message-September 16.2010 at 15.40 UTC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAbeGSa_Xh8
I love listening to different anomalies on webSDR when I get the chance.
scintillating programming.
LOL, amazing, I just saw this same piece posted by my quite lib facebook friend. It is sort of creepy and weird.
My opinion is that the woodpecker was experiments by russia into possibilities for over-the-horizon, wideband, HF wavelength pulsed radar or possibly doppler radar.
Try this. It’s a little like listening to classic Pink Floyd
The Backwards Music Station (Number Station)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgF9ZlI_R-8
A marker beacon of some sort? Navigation aid?
Could be. You would want more than one though. Like the old LORAN system.
That is what most people thought it was too. However there were a few “conspiracy nuts” as always.
Sounds like Brian Eno if you slow it down
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoU8qVNE_zw
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