[CTSARA] Inside the Russian Short Wave Radio Enigma

[Andrew Rosca]

My antenna is probably not going to cut it for listening to it on the
air :-) I've been listening to it online:

http://uvb-76.net/

On 10/11/11, Jonathan Solomon <jon at thesolomonhouse.com> wrote:
> Andrew-
>
> That was an incredible article.  Thank you for sharing it!
>
> Has anybody heard the station?
>
> Jonathan
> On Fri, October 7, 2011 11:25 pm, Andrew Rosca wrote:
>> http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/09/ff_uvb76/
>>
>> *From a lonely rusted tower* in a forest north of Moscow, a mysterious
>> shortwave radio station transmitted day and night. For at least the
>> decade
>> leading up to 1992, it broadcast almost nothing but beeps; after that, it
>> switched to buzzes, generally between 21 and 34 per minute, each lasting
>> roughly a second—a nasally foghorn blaring through a crackly ether. The
>> signal was said to emanate from the grounds of a *voyenni gorodok* (mini
>> military city) near the village of Povarovo, and very rarely, perhaps
>> once
>> every few weeks, the monotony was broken by a male voice reciting brief
>> sequences of numbers and words, often strings of Russian names: “*Anna,
>> Nikolai, Ivan, Tatyana, Roman.”* But the balance of the airtime was
>> filled
>> by a steady, almost maddening, series of inexplicable tones.
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