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

[Tom H]

Hi 

The buzzer tones were about 1KHz off freq. Some reported hearing it being "tuned in" as well. I did manage to record the music and test tones. Give a listen. http://soundcloud.com/user2618956/uvbwmusic

Tom



--- On Wed, 9/1/10, Alex Mclean <amclean17 at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Alex Mclean <amclean17 at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Spooks] UVB-76 Buzzer experiencing outage due to maintenance or replacement
> To: spooks at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Wednesday, September 1, 2010, 10:49 PM
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> 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/
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