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''''' (sometimes referred to as '''R U AWARE?''' '''UVB76''', but recently '''MDZhB''') is the [[call sign]] of a [[shortwave]] [[radio station]] that usually broadcasts on the frequency 4625&nbsp;[[kHz]] ([[amplitude modulation|AM]] suppressed lower [[sideband]]). The disruption of the radio signal has been predicted to herald the second coming of Zyzz. It is known among English speaking [[shortwave listening|radio listeners]] by the nickname '''The Buzzer''', and by Russian listeners as {{lang-rus|жужжалка}} 'the hummer'.<ref name=buzzerdossier>{{cite web |url=http://priyom.org/media/57653/the_buzzer_primer.pdf |title=The Buzzer Primer |accessdate= |author= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date=25 March 2012 |format=PDF |work= |publisher=Priyom.org }}</ref> It features a short, monotonous {{audio|UVB-76_07-08-2010.ogg|buzz tone}}, repeating at a rate of approximately 25 tones per minute, for 24 hours per day. The station has been observed since around 1982.<ref name="oddities">{{cite web | last=Boender | first=Ary | title=Oddities | url=http://www.cvni.net/radio/e2k/e2k008/e2k08odd.html | work=ENIGMA 2000 Newsletter – Issue 8 | publisher= | date=January 2002 | accessdate=2009-05-06}}</ref> On rare occasions, the buzzer signal is interrupted and a voice transmission in Russian takes place.<ref name=wired>{{cite news |title=Inside the Russian Short Wave Radio Enigma |author=Peter Savodnik |work=[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]] |date=September 27, 2011 |url=http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/09/ff_uvb76/ |accessdate=October 7, 2011}}</ref> Despite much speculation, the actual purpose of this station remains unknown to the public.<ref>{{cite news |title=Comedy and Conspiracy Theories |author=Ben Sisario |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/05/arts/music/05playlist.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=September 2, 2010 |accessdate=January 31, 2011}}</ref>
''''' (sometimes referred to as '''R U AWARE?''' '''UVB76''', but recently '''THE CUNT DESTROYER''') is the [[call sign]] of a [[shortwave]] [[radio station]] that usually broadcasts on the frequency 4625&nbsp;[[kHz]] ([[amplitude modulation|AM]] suppressed lower [[sideband]]). The disruption of the radio signal has been predicted to herald the second coming of Zyzz. It is known among English speaking [[shortwave listening|radio listeners]] by the nickname '''The Buzzer''', and by Russian listeners as {{lang-rus|жужжалка}} 'the hummer'.<ref name=buzzerdossier>{{cite web |url=http://priyom.org/media/57653/the_buzzer_primer.pdf |title=The Buzzer Primer |accessdate= |author= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date=25 March 2012 |format=PDF |work= |publisher=Priyom.org }}</ref> It features a short, monotonous {{audio|UVB-76_07-08-2010.ogg|buzz tone}}, repeating at a rate of approximately 25 tones per minute, for 24 hours per day. The station has been observed since around 1982.<ref name="oddities">{{cite web | last=Boender | first=Ary | title=Oddities | url=http://www.cvni.net/radio/e2k/e2k008/e2k08odd.html | work=ENIGMA 2000 Newsletter – Issue 8 | publisher= | date=January 2002 | accessdate=2009-05-06}}</ref> On rare occasions, the buzzer signal is interrupted and a voice transmission in Russian takes place.<ref name=wired>{{cite news |title=Inside the Russian Short Wave Radio Enigma |author=Peter Savodnik |work=[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]] |date=September 27, 2011 |url=http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/09/ff_uvb76/ |accessdate=October 7, 2011}}</ref> Despite much speculation, the actual purpose of this station remains unknown to the public.<ref>{{cite news |title=Comedy and Conspiracy Theories |author=Ben Sisario |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/05/arts/music/05playlist.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=September 2, 2010 |accessdate=January 31, 2011}}</ref>


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'{{cleanup|reason=Badly sourced, reads more like a logbook than an article.|date=October 2012}} {{Coord|56|4|59.5|N|37|6|37|E|display=title}} ''''' (sometimes referred to as '''R U AWARE?''' '''UVB76''', but recently '''MDZhB''') is the [[call sign]] of a [[shortwave]] [[radio station]] that usually broadcasts on the frequency 4625&nbsp;[[kHz]] ([[amplitude modulation|AM]] suppressed lower [[sideband]]). The disruption of the radio signal has been predicted to herald the second coming of Zyzz. It is known among English speaking [[shortwave listening|radio listeners]] by the nickname '''The Buzzer''', and by Russian listeners as {{lang-rus|жужжалка}} 'the hummer'.<ref name=buzzerdossier>{{cite web |url=http://priyom.org/media/57653/the_buzzer_primer.pdf |title=The Buzzer Primer |accessdate= |author= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date=25 March 2012 |format=PDF |work= |publisher=Priyom.org }}</ref> It features a short, monotonous {{audio|UVB-76_07-08-2010.ogg|buzz tone}}, repeating at a rate of approximately 25 tones per minute, for 24 hours per day. The station has been observed since around 1982.<ref name="oddities">{{cite web | last=Boender | first=Ary | title=Oddities | url=http://www.cvni.net/radio/e2k/e2k008/e2k08odd.html | work=ENIGMA 2000 Newsletter – Issue 8 | publisher= | date=January 2002 | accessdate=2009-05-06}}</ref> On rare occasions, the buzzer signal is interrupted and a voice transmission in Russian takes place.<ref name=wired>{{cite news |title=Inside the Russian Short Wave Radio Enigma |author=Peter Savodnik |work=[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]] |date=September 27, 2011 |url=http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/09/ff_uvb76/ |accessdate=October 7, 2011}}</ref> Despite much speculation, the actual purpose of this station remains unknown to the public.<ref>{{cite news |title=Comedy and Conspiracy Theories |author=Ben Sisario |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/05/arts/music/05playlist.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=September 2, 2010 |accessdate=January 31, 2011}}</ref> ==Normal transmission== {{Listen | filename = UVB-76.ogg | title = UVB-76 buzzing | description = A short clip of UVB-76's transmission as heard in Southern Finland, 860 km (530 mi) away from the station in 2002. | pos = }} [[Image:UVB-76-detail.png|thumb|right|A spectrum for UVB-76 showing the suppressed lower sideband.]] my buttcheeks are itching BradInPhx is the last known talk show host on this station. The Buzzer has apparently been broadcasting since at least 1982<ref name="oddities"/> as a repeating two-second pip, changing to a buzzer in early 1990.<ref name="Morse_Stations">{{cite web | title=Morse Stations | url=http://www.cvni.net/radio/nsnl/nsnl075/nsnl75ms.html | work=Seventy-fifth edition of the N&O column / Spooks newsletter | date=2004-08-02 | accessdate=2010-08-27}}</ref><ref name="Numbers_and_Oddities">{{cite web | title=Numbers & oddities: Column 1 | url=http://www.cvni.net/radio/nsnl/nsnl000/nsnl0a.html | work=World Utility News | last=Boender | first=Ary | publisher= | year=1995 | accessdate=}}</ref> It briefly changed to a higher tone of longer duration (approximately 20 tones per minute) on January 16, 2003, but it has since reverted to the previous tone pattern. ==Malfunctions== Frequently, distant conversations and other background noises can be heard behind the buzzer, suggesting that the buzz tones come from a device placed behind a live and constantly open microphone (rather than a recording or automated sound being fed through playback equipment), or that a microphone may have been turned on accidentally.<ref>[http://technet.idnes.cz/mysteriozni-radio-uz-30-let-vysila-zahadny-signal-a-ted-i-tajnou-sifru-1j4-/tec_audio.asp?c=A100826_231351_tec_audio_kuz "Mysteriózní rádio už 30 let vysílá záhadný signál a teď i tajnou šifru"], Technet.cz, August 27, 2010 ([http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Ftechnet.idnes.cz%2Fmysteriozni-radio-uz-30-let-vysila-zahadny-signal-a-ted-i-tajnou-sifru-1j4-%2Ftec_audio.asp%3Fc%3DA100826_231351_tec_audio_kuz English])</ref> One such occasion was on November 3, 2001, when a conversation in Russian was heard:<ref name="oddities"/> "Я — 143. Не получаю генератор." "Идёт такая работа от аппаратной." ("I am 143. Not receiving the generator (oscillator)." "That stuff comes from hardware room.").<ref>[http://forth.ie/index.php/content/weekend_article/sierra_papa_india_echo_sierra/ "Sierra Papa India Echo Sierra"], [[Forth magazine|Forth]], March 20, 2010</ref> In another event on November 11, 2010, a series of telephone calls were leaked for 30 minutes.<ref>{{cite web|title=UVB-76 2010-11-11 14.00 UTC|url=http://soundcloud.com/danix111/uvb-76-2010-11-11-14-00-utc|publisher=Danix111|accessdate=14 August 2012}}</ref> ==Voice messages and other sounds== Voice messages from UVB-76 were very rare until a sudden spate of activity in the latter half of 2010.<ref>Newitz, Annalee, [http://io9.com/5623226/theyre-broadcasting-those-russian-numbers-again "They're broadcasting those Russian numbers again"], ion9, August 27, 2010</ref> They are usually given in Russian by a live voice and repeated.<ref>[http://www.abc.es/20100826/tecnologia/misterio-emisiones-radio-secretas-201008261636.html "El misterio de las emisiones de radio secretas"], [[ABC (newspaper)|ABC]], August 26, 2010 ([http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.abc.es%2F20100826%2Ftecnologia%2Fmisterio-emisiones-radio-secretas-201008261636.html English])</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Russia |url=http://googlesightseeing.com/2009/07/the-buzzer-uvb-76/ |title="The Buzzer" (UVB-76) — Google Sightseeing |publisher=Googlesightseeing.com |date=2009-07-21 |accessdate=2012-10-09}}</ref> Before 2010, only three voice messages were ever verifiably broadcast on UVB-76: * At 2100 [[UTC]] on December 24, 1997: "Ya UVB-76, Ya UVB-76. 180 08 BROMAL 74 27 99 14. Boris, Roman, Olga, Mikhail, Anna, Larisa. 7 4 2 7 9 9 1 4."<ref name="oddities"/><ref name="Russian_HF_beacons"/><ref name="Geocities_UVB76_Rus">{{cite web | last=Michalski | first=Jan | title=Радиостанция "УЗБ-76" | url=http://www.geocities.com/uvb76/uvb76.html | archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20030414090619/http://www.geocities.com/uvb76/uvb76.html | archivedate=2003-04-14 | accessdate=2008-08-29 | language=Russian}}</ref><ref name="Single_Letter_Markers">{{cite web |title=Single Letter Markers | work=Posts from the SPOOKS and WUN listservers |date= |url=http://dxworld.com/markers.html |year=2000 |accessdate=2008-08-29 |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20071125051007/http://dxworld.com/markers.html |archivedate=2007-11-25 }}</ref> * At 0418 UTC on December 9, 2002: "UVB-76, UVB-76. 62 691 IZAFET 36 93 82 70"<ref name="Geocities_UVB76_Rus"/> * At 0757 UTC on February 21, 2006: "UVB-76, UVB-76. 75-59-75-59. 39-52-53-58. 5-5-2-5. Konstantin-1-9-0-9-0-8-9-8-Tatiana-Oksana-Anna-Elena-Pavel-Schuka. Konstantin 8-4. 9-7-5-5-9-Tatiana. Anna Larisa Uliyana-9-4-1-4-3-4-8." ===2010 activity=== On June 5, 2010, UVB-76 went silent for approximately 24 hours, resuming the normal buzzing pattern on the morning of June 6. On June 10, at approximately 2130 UTC, a series of [[Morse code]] beeps emitted along with the buzzer for just under four minutes. At 1335 UTC on August 23, 2010 a voice message was broadcast: "UVB-76, UVB-76. 93 882 NAIMINA 74 14 35 74" ([http://soundcloud.com/djoutcold/uvb-76-aug-23-2010-9-32ampst Recording of August 23rd transmission])<ref>{{cite web | title=August 23, 2010 9:35AM PST Voice transmission confirmed | url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBFA1p_-UAI | work= | publisher= | date= | accessdate=}}</ref><ref>[http://fromtheold.com/news/politics/uvb-76-wakes-4chan-message-warns-world-war-new-world-order-20316.html "UVB-76 wakes up, 4chan message warns of World War, New World Order"], From The Old, August 25, 2010</ref><ref>Cutlack, Gary, [http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2010/08/mysterious-russian-numbers-station-changes-broadcast-after-20-years/ "Mysterious Russian ‘Numbers Station’ Changes Broadcast After 20 Years"], [[Gizmodo]] Australia, August 25, 2010</ref> Two days later, on August 25 at 0713 UTC, the signal went silent again, followed by a series of thumping sounds apparently in the same room as the open microphone. It was followed by a hail of electronic noise, which then faded again into the buzzer broadcast. Later that same day, voices were heard conversing loudly behind the buzzer.<ref name=danix /> At 2225 UTC On September 1, 2010, the buzzer was interrupted by a 38-second fragment of "Dance of the Little Swans" from [[Tchaikovsky]]'s ballet ''[[Swan Lake]]''. A Morse code signal accompanied the fragment.<ref name=danix /> On September 5 at 1230 UTC, a female voice was heard counting from one to nine in Russian; just over an hour later, at 1339 UTC, the buzzing silenced for a muffled male voice to read a voice message.<ref name=danix /> The next voice broadcast was made at 0548 UTC on September 7: "Mikhail Dmitri Zhenya Boris. Mikhail Dmitri Zhenya Boris. 04 979 D-R-E-N-D-O-U-T. T-R-E-N-E-R-S-K-I-Y." It was the first of 25 voice messages that would be broadcast by September 30, with another 56 to follow between October and December.<ref name=danix>http://danix111.cba.pl/archives/ Archives of UVB-76</ref> Each of these, with one exception on September 10, replaced the familiar "UVB-76" call sign with "Mikhail Dmitri Zhenya Boris," suggesting that the station had changed call signs from UVB-76 to MDZhB. On November 11, 2010 intermittent phone conversations were accidentally transmitted and recorded by a listener (at 1400Mhz) for a period of approximately 30 minutes.<ref name=buzzerdossier /> These conversations are available online, and seem to be in Russian, but have not been publicly translated yet.<ref>{{cite web|title=UVB-76 2010-11-11 14.00 UTC|url=http://soundcloud.com/danix111/uvb-76-2010-11-11-14-00-utc|accessdate=11 October 2012}}</ref> The phone calls mentioned the "brigade operative officer on duty", the communication nodes "Debut", "Nadezhda" (Russian for "hope", both a noun and a female name), "Sudak" (a kind of river fish and also a town in Crimea) and "Vulkan". The female voice says "officer on duty of communication node Debut senior ensign Uspenskaya, got the control call from Nadezhda OK". UVB-76 2010-11-11 14.00 UTC Translation<br> 3.18 to 3.22-- "Did you get the call?", "Yes, yes, yes, yes" A further 14 voice messages followed between January 5 and February 5, 2011.<ref name=danix /> ==Location and function== There is much speculation about the current transmitter site.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://uvb-76.blogspot.com/p/triangulation.html|title=Triangulation of UVB-76|accessdate=May 17, 2011}}</ref> The former transmitter<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.numbersoddities.nl/n&o-163.pdf|title=Numbers & Oddities #163|page=4|date=April 2011|accessdate=May 17, 2011}}</ref> was located near [[Povarovo, Moscow Oblast|Povarovo]], [[Russia]]<ref>{{cite web | last=Geere | first=Duncan | title=Mysterious Russian 'Buzzer' radio broadcast changes | url=http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2010-08/25/russian-numbers-station-broadcast-changes | work=WIRED.CO.UK | publisher= | date=August 2010 | accessdate=2010-09-12}}</ref> at {{Coord|56|5|0|N|37|6|37|E|}} which is about halfway between [[Zelenograd]] and [[Solnechnogorsk]] and {{convert|40|km|mi}} [[Ordinal directions|northwest]] of [[Moscow]], near the village of Lozhki. The location and callsign were unknown until the first known voice broadcast of 1997.<ref>{{cite news |title=El misterioso zumbido de la estación de radio UVB-76 |author= |url=http://www.elreservado.es/news/view/261-correos-rebotados-internet-comic/895-el-misterioso-zumbido-de-la-estacion-de-radio-uvb-76 |newspaper=El Reservado |date=January 24, 2011 |accessdate=January 31, 2011}}</ref> In September 2010, the station's transmitter was moved to near the town of [[Pskov]]. This may have been due to a reorganization of the Russian military.<ref name=wired/> The purpose of UVB-76 has not been confirmed by government or broadcast officials. However, the former Minister of Communications and Informatics of the Republic of Lithuania has written that the purpose of the voice messages is to confirm that operators at receiving stations are alert.<ref name="Russian_HF_beacons"/><ref>{{cite web |title=Single letter markers – posts from the SPOOKS and WUN listservers |date= |url=http://dxworld.com/markers.html |year=2000 |accessdate=2008-08-29 |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20071125051007/http://dxworld.com/markers.html |archivedate=2007-11-25 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last =Pleikys | first=Rimantas | title =Jamming | publisher = Rimantas Pleikys | year = 1998 | location = Vilnius Lithuania | url = http://www.oldradio.lt/jamming/jamminge.htm}}</ref> Another theory concerns an article published in the Russian Journal of Earth Sciences which describes an observatory measuring changes in the [[ionosphere]] by broadcasting a signal at 4625&nbsp;kHz, the same as UVB-76.<ref>{{cite web |title=Information-measuring complex and database of mid-latitude Borok Geophysical Observatory|url=http://elpub.wdcb.ru/journals/rjes/v10/2007ES000227/0.shtml |year=2008 |accessdate=2012-02-10 }}</ref> However, this would not explain the voice or morse code messages. In 2011 a group of [[Urban Exploration|urban explorers]] explored the abandoned buildings at Povarovo.<ref>{{cite web|author=by wasd |url=http://blog.kwasd.ru/?p=53 |title=kwasd's blog " Небольшой фотоотчет с УВБ-76 ("The Buzzer", "Жужжалка") |publisher=Blog.kwasd.ru |date= |accessdate=2012-10-09}}</ref> They claim that it is an abandoned military base. A radio log record was found. It is likely that voice messages are some sort of Russian military communications. Other claims are<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.radioscanner.ru/forum/topic12415-4.html |title=Военная "Жужжалка" на частоте 4625 кГц. "Buzzer" UVB-76. - Страница 4 |publisher=Radioscanner.ru |date= |accessdate=2012-10-09}}</ref> that the broadcast is constantly being listened to by military commissariats. Dec 16 2012 the signal went down. It is said that citizens should pepper the Angus There are two related stations "The Pip" and "Squeaky Wheel".<ref name=buzzerdossier/> ==See also== {{Portal|Radio}} * [[Russian Woodpecker]] * [[Numbers station]] * [[Letter beacon]] * [[Dead Hand (nuclear war)]] ==References== {{Reflist|2}} ==External links== {{Commons category|UVB-76}} *[http://priyom.org/number-stations/slavic/s28.aspx UZB-76 messages transcripts] * [[NPR]]'s [http://www.npr.org/templates/topics/topic.php?topicId=1074 Lost and Found Sound], 2000-05-26: [http://www.npr.org/programs/lnfsound/stories/000526.stories.html The Shortwave Numbers Mystery] *[http://qrg.globaltuners.com/details.php?id=19667 UZB76] at the [http://qrg.globaltuners.com/ Global Frequency Database] *[http://www.uvb-76.net UVB-76 Temporary Internet Relay] – Live Internet Streaming site, 900&nbsp;km NW from station. *[http://www.starbacks.ca/uvb76/index.html UZB-76 info] *[http://www.securitygeneration.com/misc/uvb-76/uvb-76-activity-updates/ UVB-76 Activity Updates] *[http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2011/11/features/enigma?page=all Wired.co.uk 2011 article] *[http://www.naimina.com/ Upcoming UVB-76 Documentary Film] {{DEFAULTSORT:Uvb-76}} [[Category:Soviet radio]] [[Category:Russian radio]] [[Category:Secret broadcasting]] [[de:UVB-76]] [[el:Ραδιοσταθμός UVB-76]] [[es:Estación de Radio UVB-76]] [[fr:UVB-76]] [[ko:UVB-76]] [[hu:UVB-76]] [[ja:UVB-76]] [[pl:UVB-76]] [[pt:UVB-76]] [[ru:УВБ-76]] [[fi:UVB-76]] [[uk:УВБ-76]] [[zh:UVB-76]]'
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'{{cleanup|reason=Badly sourced, reads more like a logbook than an article.|date=October 2012}} {{Coord|56|4|59.5|N|37|6|37|E|display=title}} ''''' (sometimes referred to as '''R U AWARE?''' '''UVB76''', but recently '''THE CUNT DESTROYER''') is the [[call sign]] of a [[shortwave]] [[radio station]] that usually broadcasts on the frequency 4625&nbsp;[[kHz]] ([[amplitude modulation|AM]] suppressed lower [[sideband]]). The disruption of the radio signal has been predicted to herald the second coming of Zyzz. It is known among English speaking [[shortwave listening|radio listeners]] by the nickname '''The Buzzer''', and by Russian listeners as {{lang-rus|жужжалка}} 'the hummer'.<ref name=buzzerdossier>{{cite web |url=http://priyom.org/media/57653/the_buzzer_primer.pdf |title=The Buzzer Primer |accessdate= |author= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date=25 March 2012 |format=PDF |work= |publisher=Priyom.org }}</ref> It features a short, monotonous {{audio|UVB-76_07-08-2010.ogg|buzz tone}}, repeating at a rate of approximately 25 tones per minute, for 24 hours per day. The station has been observed since around 1982.<ref name="oddities">{{cite web | last=Boender | first=Ary | title=Oddities | url=http://www.cvni.net/radio/e2k/e2k008/e2k08odd.html | work=ENIGMA 2000 Newsletter – Issue 8 | publisher= | date=January 2002 | accessdate=2009-05-06}}</ref> On rare occasions, the buzzer signal is interrupted and a voice transmission in Russian takes place.<ref name=wired>{{cite news |title=Inside the Russian Short Wave Radio Enigma |author=Peter Savodnik |work=[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]] |date=September 27, 2011 |url=http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/09/ff_uvb76/ |accessdate=October 7, 2011}}</ref> Despite much speculation, the actual purpose of this station remains unknown to the public.<ref>{{cite news |title=Comedy and Conspiracy Theories |author=Ben Sisario |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/05/arts/music/05playlist.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=September 2, 2010 |accessdate=January 31, 2011}}</ref> ==Normal transmission== {{Listen | filename = UVB-76.ogg | title = UVB-76 buzzing | description = A short clip of UVB-76's transmission as heard in Southern Finland, 860 km (530 mi) away from the station in 2002. | pos = }} [[Image:UVB-76-detail.png|thumb|right|A spectrum for UVB-76 showing the suppressed lower sideband.]] my buttcheeks are itching BradInPhx is the last known talk show host on this station. The Buzzer has apparently been broadcasting since at least 1982<ref name="oddities"/> as a repeating two-second pip, changing to a buzzer in early 1990.<ref name="Morse_Stations">{{cite web | title=Morse Stations | url=http://www.cvni.net/radio/nsnl/nsnl075/nsnl75ms.html | work=Seventy-fifth edition of the N&O column / Spooks newsletter | date=2004-08-02 | accessdate=2010-08-27}}</ref><ref name="Numbers_and_Oddities">{{cite web | title=Numbers & oddities: Column 1 | url=http://www.cvni.net/radio/nsnl/nsnl000/nsnl0a.html | work=World Utility News | last=Boender | first=Ary | publisher= | year=1995 | accessdate=}}</ref> It briefly changed to a higher tone of longer duration (approximately 20 tones per minute) on January 16, 2003, but it has since reverted to the previous tone pattern. ==Malfunctions== Frequently, distant conversations and other background noises can be heard behind the buzzer, suggesting that the buzz tones come from a device placed behind a live and constantly open microphone (rather than a recording or automated sound being fed through playback equipment), or that a microphone may have been turned on accidentally.<ref>[http://technet.idnes.cz/mysteriozni-radio-uz-30-let-vysila-zahadny-signal-a-ted-i-tajnou-sifru-1j4-/tec_audio.asp?c=A100826_231351_tec_audio_kuz "Mysteriózní rádio už 30 let vysílá záhadný signál a teď i tajnou šifru"], Technet.cz, August 27, 2010 ([http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Ftechnet.idnes.cz%2Fmysteriozni-radio-uz-30-let-vysila-zahadny-signal-a-ted-i-tajnou-sifru-1j4-%2Ftec_audio.asp%3Fc%3DA100826_231351_tec_audio_kuz English])</ref> One such occasion was on November 3, 2001, when a conversation in Russian was heard:<ref name="oddities"/> "Я — 143. Не получаю генератор." "Идёт такая работа от аппаратной." ("I am 143. Not receiving the generator (oscillator)." "That stuff comes from hardware room.").<ref>[http://forth.ie/index.php/content/weekend_article/sierra_papa_india_echo_sierra/ "Sierra Papa India Echo Sierra"], [[Forth magazine|Forth]], March 20, 2010</ref> In another event on November 11, 2010, a series of telephone calls were leaked for 30 minutes.<ref>{{cite web|title=UVB-76 2010-11-11 14.00 UTC|url=http://soundcloud.com/danix111/uvb-76-2010-11-11-14-00-utc|publisher=Danix111|accessdate=14 August 2012}}</ref> ==Voice messages and other sounds== Voice messages from UVB-76 were very rare until a sudden spate of activity in the latter half of 2010.<ref>Newitz, Annalee, [http://io9.com/5623226/theyre-broadcasting-those-russian-numbers-again "They're broadcasting those Russian numbers again"], ion9, August 27, 2010</ref> They are usually given in Russian by a live voice and repeated.<ref>[http://www.abc.es/20100826/tecnologia/misterio-emisiones-radio-secretas-201008261636.html "El misterio de las emisiones de radio secretas"], [[ABC (newspaper)|ABC]], August 26, 2010 ([http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.abc.es%2F20100826%2Ftecnologia%2Fmisterio-emisiones-radio-secretas-201008261636.html English])</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Russia |url=http://googlesightseeing.com/2009/07/the-buzzer-uvb-76/ |title="The Buzzer" (UVB-76) — Google Sightseeing |publisher=Googlesightseeing.com |date=2009-07-21 |accessdate=2012-10-09}}</ref> Before 2010, only three voice messages were ever verifiably broadcast on UVB-76: * At 2100 [[UTC]] on December 24, 1997: "Ya UVB-76, Ya UVB-76. 180 08 BROMAL 74 27 99 14. Boris, Roman, Olga, Mikhail, Anna, Larisa. 7 4 2 7 9 9 1 4."<ref name="oddities"/><ref name="Russian_HF_beacons"/><ref name="Geocities_UVB76_Rus">{{cite web | last=Michalski | first=Jan | title=Радиостанция "УЗБ-76" | url=http://www.geocities.com/uvb76/uvb76.html | archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20030414090619/http://www.geocities.com/uvb76/uvb76.html | archivedate=2003-04-14 | accessdate=2008-08-29 | language=Russian}}</ref><ref name="Single_Letter_Markers">{{cite web |title=Single Letter Markers | work=Posts from the SPOOKS and WUN listservers |date= |url=http://dxworld.com/markers.html |year=2000 |accessdate=2008-08-29 |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20071125051007/http://dxworld.com/markers.html |archivedate=2007-11-25 }}</ref> * At 0418 UTC on December 9, 2002: "UVB-76, UVB-76. 62 691 IZAFET 36 93 82 70"<ref name="Geocities_UVB76_Rus"/> * At 0757 UTC on February 21, 2006: "UVB-76, UVB-76. 75-59-75-59. 39-52-53-58. 5-5-2-5. Konstantin-1-9-0-9-0-8-9-8-Tatiana-Oksana-Anna-Elena-Pavel-Schuka. Konstantin 8-4. 9-7-5-5-9-Tatiana. Anna Larisa Uliyana-9-4-1-4-3-4-8." ===2010 activity=== On June 5, 2010, UVB-76 went silent for approximately 24 hours, resuming the normal buzzing pattern on the morning of June 6. On June 10, at approximately 2130 UTC, a series of [[Morse code]] beeps emitted along with the buzzer for just under four minutes. At 1335 UTC on August 23, 2010 a voice message was broadcast: "UVB-76, UVB-76. 93 882 NAIMINA 74 14 35 74" ([http://soundcloud.com/djoutcold/uvb-76-aug-23-2010-9-32ampst Recording of August 23rd transmission])<ref>{{cite web | title=August 23, 2010 9:35AM PST Voice transmission confirmed | url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBFA1p_-UAI | work= | publisher= | date= | accessdate=}}</ref><ref>[http://fromtheold.com/news/politics/uvb-76-wakes-4chan-message-warns-world-war-new-world-order-20316.html "UVB-76 wakes up, 4chan message warns of World War, New World Order"], From The Old, August 25, 2010</ref><ref>Cutlack, Gary, [http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2010/08/mysterious-russian-numbers-station-changes-broadcast-after-20-years/ "Mysterious Russian ‘Numbers Station’ Changes Broadcast After 20 Years"], [[Gizmodo]] Australia, August 25, 2010</ref> Two days later, on August 25 at 0713 UTC, the signal went silent again, followed by a series of thumping sounds apparently in the same room as the open microphone. It was followed by a hail of electronic noise, which then faded again into the buzzer broadcast. Later that same day, voices were heard conversing loudly behind the buzzer.<ref name=danix /> At 2225 UTC On September 1, 2010, the buzzer was interrupted by a 38-second fragment of "Dance of the Little Swans" from [[Tchaikovsky]]'s ballet ''[[Swan Lake]]''. A Morse code signal accompanied the fragment.<ref name=danix /> On September 5 at 1230 UTC, a female voice was heard counting from one to nine in Russian; just over an hour later, at 1339 UTC, the buzzing silenced for a muffled male voice to read a voice message.<ref name=danix /> The next voice broadcast was made at 0548 UTC on September 7: "Mikhail Dmitri Zhenya Boris. Mikhail Dmitri Zhenya Boris. 04 979 D-R-E-N-D-O-U-T. T-R-E-N-E-R-S-K-I-Y." It was the first of 25 voice messages that would be broadcast by September 30, with another 56 to follow between October and December.<ref name=danix>http://danix111.cba.pl/archives/ Archives of UVB-76</ref> Each of these, with one exception on September 10, replaced the familiar "UVB-76" call sign with "Mikhail Dmitri Zhenya Boris," suggesting that the station had changed call signs from UVB-76 to MDZhB. On November 11, 2010 intermittent phone conversations were accidentally transmitted and recorded by a listener (at 1400Mhz) for a period of approximately 30 minutes.<ref name=buzzerdossier /> These conversations are available online, and seem to be in Russian, but have not been publicly translated yet.<ref>{{cite web|title=UVB-76 2010-11-11 14.00 UTC|url=http://soundcloud.com/danix111/uvb-76-2010-11-11-14-00-utc|accessdate=11 October 2012}}</ref> The phone calls mentioned the "brigade operative officer on duty", the communication nodes "Debut", "Nadezhda" (Russian for "hope", both a noun and a female name), "Sudak" (a kind of river fish and also a town in Crimea) and "Vulkan". The female voice says "officer on duty of communication node Debut senior ensign Uspenskaya, got the control call from Nadezhda OK". UVB-76 2010-11-11 14.00 UTC Translation<br> 3.18 to 3.22-- "Did you get the call?", "Yes, yes, yes, yes" A further 14 voice messages followed between January 5 and February 5, 2011.<ref name=danix /> ==Location and function== There is much speculation about the current transmitter site.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://uvb-76.blogspot.com/p/triangulation.html|title=Triangulation of UVB-76|accessdate=May 17, 2011}}</ref> The former transmitter<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.numbersoddities.nl/n&o-163.pdf|title=Numbers & Oddities #163|page=4|date=April 2011|accessdate=May 17, 2011}}</ref> was located near [[Povarovo, Moscow Oblast|Povarovo]], [[Russia]]<ref>{{cite web | last=Geere | first=Duncan | title=Mysterious Russian 'Buzzer' radio broadcast changes | url=http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2010-08/25/russian-numbers-station-broadcast-changes | work=WIRED.CO.UK | publisher= | date=August 2010 | accessdate=2010-09-12}}</ref> at {{Coord|56|5|0|N|37|6|37|E|}} which is about halfway between [[Zelenograd]] and [[Solnechnogorsk]] and {{convert|40|km|mi}} [[Ordinal directions|northwest]] of [[Moscow]], near the village of Lozhki. The location and callsign were unknown until the first known voice broadcast of 1997.<ref>{{cite news |title=El misterioso zumbido de la estación de radio UVB-76 |author= |url=http://www.elreservado.es/news/view/261-correos-rebotados-internet-comic/895-el-misterioso-zumbido-de-la-estacion-de-radio-uvb-76 |newspaper=El Reservado |date=January 24, 2011 |accessdate=January 31, 2011}}</ref> In September 2010, the station's transmitter was moved to near the town of [[Pskov]]. This may have been due to a reorganization of the Russian military.<ref name=wired/> The purpose of UVB-76 has not been confirmed by government or broadcast officials. However, the former Minister of Communications and Informatics of the Republic of Lithuania has written that the purpose of the voice messages is to confirm that operators at receiving stations are alert.<ref name="Russian_HF_beacons"/><ref>{{cite web |title=Single letter markers – posts from the SPOOKS and WUN listservers |date= |url=http://dxworld.com/markers.html |year=2000 |accessdate=2008-08-29 |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20071125051007/http://dxworld.com/markers.html |archivedate=2007-11-25 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last =Pleikys | first=Rimantas | title =Jamming | publisher = Rimantas Pleikys | year = 1998 | location = Vilnius Lithuania | url = http://www.oldradio.lt/jamming/jamminge.htm}}</ref> Another theory concerns an article published in the Russian Journal of Earth Sciences which describes an observatory measuring changes in the [[ionosphere]] by broadcasting a signal at 4625&nbsp;kHz, the same as UVB-76.<ref>{{cite web |title=Information-measuring complex and database of mid-latitude Borok Geophysical Observatory|url=http://elpub.wdcb.ru/journals/rjes/v10/2007ES000227/0.shtml |year=2008 |accessdate=2012-02-10 }}</ref> However, this would not explain the voice or morse code messages. In 2011 a group of [[Urban Exploration|urban explorers]] explored the abandoned buildings at Povarovo.<ref>{{cite web|author=by wasd |url=http://blog.kwasd.ru/?p=53 |title=kwasd's blog " Небольшой фотоотчет с УВБ-76 ("The Buzzer", "Жужжалка") |publisher=Blog.kwasd.ru |date= |accessdate=2012-10-09}}</ref> They claim that it is an abandoned military base. A radio log record was found. It is likely that voice messages are some sort of Russian military communications. Other claims are<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.radioscanner.ru/forum/topic12415-4.html |title=Военная "Жужжалка" на частоте 4625 кГц. "Buzzer" UVB-76. - Страница 4 |publisher=Radioscanner.ru |date= |accessdate=2012-10-09}}</ref> that the broadcast is constantly being listened to by military commissariats. Dec 16 2012 the signal went down. It is said that citizens should pepper the Angus There are two related stations "The Pip" and "Squeaky Wheel".<ref name=buzzerdossier/> ==See also== {{Portal|Radio}} * [[Russian Woodpecker]] * [[Numbers station]] * [[Letter beacon]] * [[Dead Hand (nuclear war)]] ==References== {{Reflist|2}} ==External links== {{Commons category|UVB-76}} *[http://priyom.org/number-stations/slavic/s28.aspx UZB-76 messages transcripts] * [[NPR]]'s [http://www.npr.org/templates/topics/topic.php?topicId=1074 Lost and Found Sound], 2000-05-26: [http://www.npr.org/programs/lnfsound/stories/000526.stories.html The Shortwave Numbers Mystery] *[http://qrg.globaltuners.com/details.php?id=19667 UZB76] at the [http://qrg.globaltuners.com/ Global Frequency Database] *[http://www.uvb-76.net UVB-76 Temporary Internet Relay] – Live Internet Streaming site, 900&nbsp;km NW from station. *[http://www.starbacks.ca/uvb76/index.html UZB-76 info] *[http://www.securitygeneration.com/misc/uvb-76/uvb-76-activity-updates/ UVB-76 Activity Updates] *[http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2011/11/features/enigma?page=all Wired.co.uk 2011 article] *[http://www.naimina.com/ Upcoming UVB-76 Documentary Film] {{DEFAULTSORT:Uvb-76}} [[Category:Soviet radio]] [[Category:Russian radio]] [[Category:Secret broadcasting]] [[de:UVB-76]] [[el:Ραδιοσταθμός UVB-76]] [[es:Estación de Radio UVB-76]] [[fr:UVB-76]] [[ko:UVB-76]] [[hu:UVB-76]] [[ja:UVB-76]] [[pl:UVB-76]] [[pt:UVB-76]] [[ru:УВБ-76]] [[fi:UVB-76]] [[uk:УВБ-76]] [[zh:UVB-76]] '
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