[Spooks] UVB-76 Buzzer experiencing outage due to maintenance or replacement

[Alex Mclean]

This morning UVB-76 The Buzzer went off the air at about 4:00UTC
Instead is now being broadcast morse code question mark (. . - - . .)
over and over again, and sporadically the familiar buzzer re-appears.

Also strange is that it is also broadcasting a short clip of Dance of
the Little Swans from Swan Lake intermittently. This is confirmed to
be broadcast from UVB-76 and is not interference from another
broadcast.

Also heard has been activity over the microphone. I have personally
observed the sound of male voices speaking Russian and it sounds like
they are moving furniture. Anyone can recognize the sound of wooden
table legs sliding across a hard floor.
Other general activity has been monitored today.

It can be speculated that the station is undergoing maintenance or
replacement of some kind. It is apparent that there has been changes
made to the broadcast by a real person in the control room indicative
of testing and maintenance.
Why they're playing a clip from Swan Lake is anybody's guess, but it's
certainly a quaint style that is all but absent from numbers stations
today.
Honestly I think the last eccentrically styled numbers station was The
Swedish Rhapsody, which also became more bland in its later years of
usage.


You know I'm not sure if UVB-76 really qualifies as a numbers station
but it's certainly an abnormal station. Do inform me if discussion of
it doesn't really belong here.

Anyway that's the news. After a 28 year broadcast with no known
interruptions, The Buzzer is off the air and it cannot be certain
whether or not it will return.

Here is a link to a blog I have been reading about the subject, it's
very active right now:
http://uvb-76.blogspot.com/