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

[Zack Widup]

I listened for it several times last night. All I heard here in Illinois was
some signal sweeping that frequency range, down to up, a couple times a
second.

Zack


On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 4:43 AM, Tom H <swler007 at yahoo.com> wrote:

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> 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
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> > 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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