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UVB-76 (The Buzzer) is a numbers station run by the russians since 1981. Its used to organize covert ops and military movements. Changes correspond to Rus. millitary action - like during 2014 crimea annex. Yesterday it was playing Gangam Style and sending spectrogram Troll Faces.
the buzz in the background is why it's called the buzzer, and over the years its changed in pitch and frequency. There used to be loads and loads of these numbers stations, normally used for espionage during the cold war era. youtube.com/watch?v=Wcv_cG…
So it's really weird to see it being used by this. I saw someone speculate the signal's been hacked but I think whoever is assigned to keep this thing running is literally just trolling whoever is assigned to listen to it
It was a pleasure knowing you all
Earlier today it was working as normal, a man's voice reading off a series of names and numbers interspersed with a signal (listen live here - right now just silence. youtube.com/watch?v=fUgzv-…)
"as normal" meaning no gangam style
ok nvm, someone sent the words "uvb 76" and "saito ryosuke" around 6pm my time.
I can only speculate as to why this was chosen when it was, but hats off to whoever did it.