[Spooks] For All The Buzzer Fans

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 Dear Hugh:

What you're saying makes a lot of sense. From the pictures, the facility certainly does look abandoned, and having been such for a long time. And a missile silo certainly would need comm capability, or else how would they know when to launch/not launch?

None of the AM (or FM) stations I ever worked for ever needed hardened blast doors, although some of the swill
we were forced to play practically begged for nuking (Little River Band, anyone?).

Now, more on-topic -- has any Spook here in Southern California heard any numbers stations lately emanating from Europe or the Slavic countries?

-- Mary Villano




 

 

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From: Utility World (Hugh Stegman) <utilityworld at ominous-valve.com>
To: Shortwave Spy Numbers Stations <spooks at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Mon, Nov 1, 2010 2:21 pm
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Hi Mary!  I've seen a few stations like this myself, but they never had 
blast doors. :-)

The pictures look to me like one of those nuke-hardened facilities deep 
underground or inside granite mountains, that both sides spent a lot of 
money on.  The racks with the meters are definitely transmitters, and 
pretty big ones.  It could be a missile silo, since they'd need comm 
capability.  It might also be a command-control or 
continuity-of-government center, which would explain the office space, 
studio-type room, and phone interconnects.  If it's like the facilities 
"we" built, there'd be blast-hardened antennas for fallback use by the 
transmitters on-site, and a lot of wiring and RF plumbing.

I can't see this as a possible UVB-76 location, though.  Too decrepit 
for a facility that is obviously still on-air at least part time.  That 
transmitter is probably in a building like the one they show us from 
Google Earth, with the antenna farm in the woods.

-hugh
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