[CTSARA] Inside the Russian Short Wave Radio Enigma

[Jonathan Solomon]

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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