@@jubeaumont6305 look at the lamp posts in your town/village/city...... Little blue Ariel. Your town/etc is now a giant live phased array antenna since they turned on the new communication system in 2020. Please research. All the best to you bud 👍♥️🇬🇧
@Truth-And-Freedom c'mon be nice, we're all interested with radio , we all learn new things at different rates. I've been in radio for 45 years, and it never gets old. So if you know something that someone doesn't , then you offer to teach them or help... okay? ..Cheers! It's all about radio. 73
The letters written starting at 5:25 are: закончилась. But here they are displayed in reverse order and upside down, a bit confusing to non-russian readers. The word simply means: ended, or stopped. Cheers.
It might be, but there's no: "a", there's a space and a number of letters before it, it looks like it might be: "передача". Difficult to tell, I thought: закончилась to begin with.
Years ago when citizen band radios were popular, my friend's house unit developed a similar buzzing sound. It turned out that the neighbor's farm electric fence unit was not properly grounded and caused a feedback through the whole neighborhood.
My electric fence was messing with my neighbors ability to get the local radio station. Oops! Perhaps that's why a couple of goats tested the fence LOL. Yep, it's real. I think dogs can hear it as well. One of my dogs knew when it was grounding out and almost always risked it.
The letters at 5:25 - 6:20 are sent backwards (last letters go earlier) and upside down. The message says "ХАЛЯВА КОНЧИЛАСЬ", which is literally translated from russian as "The freebie is over", but the contextual meaning is usually akin to "No more Mr. Nice Guy".
@@philosoraptor777 Those are insults and slurs towards (1) gays, (2) Ukrainians and (3) implications of Ukrainians being gays. The recording is made in Russian and Ukrainian in deliberate Max Headroom-esque glitchy fashion. I am Ukrainian and do not approve this message, but since we, Ukrainians, are now desensitized to Russian insults, I’ll try to translate this… ahem… “precious historic document”: 8:20 Fascists - slur (Ukrainans) - slur (gays). (Switches to Ukrainian) Mr. Mitko (Ukrainian for Michal). Good morning! Good morning, Mr. Sashko (Ukrainian for Alexander), this is me yellowbelly-gay. I am again from _[inaudible]._ [Transition] (Switches to Russian) Suck (male genitals)! Moscow, putin - patriots. Suck (male genitals). putin - patriots. Suck (male genitals)! Patriots. Suck (male genitals)! Those who are forcibly, are 50-55. Russia is such a country… _[Intermission by Ringway Manchester]_ 8:50 Yellowbelly - slur (gay). Yellowbelly - slur (gay). Sergey (Russian for Sergio) - yellowbelly. Sergey - yellowbelly. Sergey - yellowbelly. Sergey - yellowbelly...
6:00 when read backwards (with the letters mirrored), the word reads «кончилась»- which would translate to the verb “ended” as in “the broadcast ended”
I remember as a teen listening to "This Transmission is for Testing Purposes Only from the Moscow Radiotelephone Station..." and then they'd cite a book, page and block and start reading five letter groups. Yeah, we all knew quite well what it was. Rumor has it that on Christmas Eve they added an extra "and Greetings to our friends in the CIA." to the broadcast.
I haven't got a Scooby what's going on but I'm fascinated. Much of that sounded better than Roger Waters rehash of The Dark Side of the Moon. As an aside at 3:00 I wept when I first saw Saturn through a telescope in my back yard. That, and stuff on this channel, makes me appreciate how little and insignificant we are. No bad thing. Keep on listening Lewis - loving it!
that we are insignificant is and has been a lie. Search TheTruth, StudyHolyBible verse by verse, Word by Word, if you can letter and Truth (YAHashuaTheChrist) will set you free.halleluYAH.
Thank you for giving me an interest in something I knew nothing about :) thank you for putting out interesting and educational content. Looking forwards to the next one (which I will watch and pretend to understand until it sort of makes sense)
letters are cyrillic saying КОНЧИЛАСЬ which means "she's ended" in russian .. might refer to transmission .. curious is that they're not only mirrored but come in reverse order .. suggesting that the whole thing should be interpreted backward.. have you seen the movie tenet from 2020 .. with a weird irish actor trying to depict an evil russian...
The thing about jamming is that it doesnt matter how poorly the blocked signal is heard elsewhere. Jamming is to prevent a signal from being heard in a particular place near the jammer not to obliterate the signal from the airwaves. Think about jamming as control bubble where the jammers signal is stronger than the blocked signal. That is the purpose of the technique. Where @ringwaymanchester is listening from is in the overalap of the bubbles so he hears both without one overpowering the other.
The Morse code is BT 990018??8????? It is Russian Air Defence Morse code broadcast on 4628 Kilohertz CW. It is seasonal activity with this air defence system Morse broadcast and the frequency during Autumn radio period. It has ben transmitting on 4628 Kilohertz CW for decades and goes back to Soviet times. It is a time stamp 0018 is the time. 8 is the air defence district identifier. It will transmit the time stamp every minute. Sometimes it will stream live or practice air defence grid. Again it is an old Soviet system. It is known as M21 by radio enthusiasts.
As a CBer, I would agree, but the musician in me says different. Radio Moscow coming through clear as a bell on the valve amp I used for my guitar was even worse.
Interesting nobody would jam it. If it was radar you would need many small powered transmitters with directional antenna to send signal indicating reflection. They would see garbage on their radar and render it useless
@@artur8403 The woodpecker was a moving target, shifting frequencies up and down the bands. You never knew where it was going to show up next. Also, the general belief back then was that it was a jamming device rather than radar. A bit pointless jamming a jammer.
What a great channel! In the 80's, I loved late-night surfing on short wave 1&2 via my AM/FM boom box. I also recorded oddball stuff to insert into musical compositions. Hard to find radios like that anymore. This is a pleasure. Subscribed.
There is a youtube recording of this called 'lift music', it mimics 'Girl from impenada' immortalised by the Blues Brothers scene with them stuck in a lift at Chicago City Hall. FWIW, I did once play it on my iPhone while in a slow lift and got some mighty starnge looks. So sorry if I drifted off the wavelength.
If it really is something to do with "perimeter"/dead-hand then serious jamming of it (not this, I know this is just trolling) could be a really really bad idea no?
This channel is bloody excellent - i cant get enough of these SWL / numbers station stuff - utterly brilliant - not sure I'd have the patience to listen all the time. Could set me KiwiSDR back up again, but not happy the software has been and will probably again be rooted on it.
There is something intangibly special about that combination of dreamy, far off music, and Saturn rising through the frame, that made me feel feels I did not even know I was calibrated to receive. Thank you.
@@TheGonzogibby As the only self-aware stardust that we're aware of, I'd say our petty grievances are akin to the universal organism plucking out its own eyes
That was the Ukrainian propaganda channel there in the end. I have heard this voice so often now. There was an evening where you could hear a woman crying and talking, and some guys laughing and talking. After that, background voices got more and louder. Music was playing "Bairaktar", a Ukrainian "we will rock you" version and more. People were laughing and singing in the background. Sounded like an open mic for hours. Still got a recording.
Could that have been Bayraktar perhaps? "The Bayraktar TB2 is a medium-altitude long-endurance unmanned combat aerial vehicle capable of remotely controlled or autonomous flight operations. It is manufactured by the Turkish company Baykar Makina Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş., primarily for the Turkish Armed Forces" (Wikipedia)
@@stephendavis6894 Yes exactly. And there is a Ukrainian song about it: ruclips.net/video/S3FGWPMjl6M/видео.html And here is the 'we will rock you' cover: ruclips.net/video/C3DUpZVdcXQ/видео.html And they also played this a few times: ruclips.net/video/lV9q901vS6o/видео.html
@@stephendavis6894there is a comedy song with same name written at the start of the war, that praised drone in question and humiliated russian troops.
I wonder what could be the intended audience. For example, they were calling some Sergey Zheltobryh a bundle of sticks (if you get my meaning) on repeat, or telling someone to, well.. perform certain acts, again, a very short sound byte on repeat. Could they be jamming some other transmission? Or perhaps jamming the frequencies used by Russian soldiers in the trenches?
the pre recorded stuff on 7103 is most likely coming from ukraine. sometimes they broadcast in different languages and i once caught them offending putin in german. not sure if its randomly generated sometimes it sounds as if someone was actually triggering samples on a keyboard
I'm not into Ham (or anything even remotely close heh), nor do I speak any other language, but it seemed obvious enough to me that what was being played back in this video, was either sliced up audio or Text To Speech.
Another brilliant video - I used to only have a passing interest in radio, but your channel keeps teaching me more things and keeping me hooked, it’s fascinating. You somehow manage to produce new videos that never get boring - there’s always another curiosity or story to follow - please keep it up - and thank you!
I'm so glad I found your channel, this is amazing! When I was kid, I was fascinated by radios and what I could listen to... I had a small old radioset at our summerhouse, the antenna was busted but I hooked it up with a long piece of steel wire to a metallic curtain rail. I had no idea at first what it would do but I just figured more metal have attached to the antenna, more I can listen into. The place is in Finland near Russian border, then ofc Soviet Union. I could hear a lot of Russian chatter, some very weird stuff too and the woodpecker was there, making a mess of certain frequencies. I loved it and was intrigued without understanding a word that was said. I could also find plethora of other channels from further away, all with that tiny little crummy radio, but the big ass curtain rail was amazing antenna. Oh and one of the things I often found was Russian speaking channels which repeated a phrase followed by a long morse signal and then it repeated. That one I could find always on the same spot easily. Most of the cryptic ones went quiet around the end of the SU.
A similar technique was used by aphex twin to draw a face in a 1999 song. I suspect within the limitations of pilot tones OFDM transmitters could actually transmit pictures like this by selectively enabling or disabling each orthogonal frequency band and still transmit their signal effectively[with some reduction in overall throughput]. I would like to see a 20 megahertz spectrogram of an LTE carrier modulated in such a way so that images could be transmitted in the waterfall spectrogram, and phones still could receive data. The picture would have lines and dots through it but I suspect it would work. Effectively each physical resource block would become a pixel😊
@@stephen70edwards All the free WebSDR sites seem to have some variant of it, if you do the listening that way. YMMV if you use your own hardware, instead of popping onto a public server.
My love of radio was started as a kid listening at night to distant broadcasts on LW and MW. But when I found these weird noses, it would freak me out. They sound so eerie. It definitely helps when you know what they are!
Managed to really clearly receive one of the propaganda channels a couple of days ago at night. It was quite creepy, especially because it was really dark outside and i was standing in the middle of a field with my pocket radio. I am in Germany and don't have the equipment to listen to the short wave bands well most of the time. Amazing how good the propagation is getting, now that the winter is slowly approaching.
oh yeah - it'll give you the creeps for sure. I've said on this channel before that , I grew up in the cold war days, (abt.1978-1988) albeit I couldn't take my 40-50 pound glowing tube radio anywhere , other than my desktop. LOL ! but yeah the old numbers stations and also the ( what the h3ll is that sound) was enough to scare the daylights out of me. cold snowy winter nights and a teenage imagination with the haunting sounds of single sideband only radio is enough nightmare fuel for anyone ! - here in Pennsylvania , I could hear Europe , the middle east, mostly over the north pole - so that made a weird sound as the radio waves passed over magnetic north as well. BTW the solar cycle is still on the upswing , so you'll hear more and more and also as the nighttime gets longer too - enjoy your radio! 73..
I’m looking to get another shortwave receiver radio soon. I used to go out away from populated areas to DX. Interestingly, I have picked up German and Chinese radio broadcasts. This was amazing, as I knew those areas were flooded in sunlight! Other interesting things you can do with a sideband is pick up signals along power lines and railroad tracks! You can’t quite interpret them, but the signals are there!
This is what the morse code message at 6:56 says: BT 99 00 18 IMI IMI 8 IMI IMI IMI IMI. The BT means "Break Text" aka "Message To Follow". The six numbers equate to unknown. Each "IMI" is basically a question mark with the number 8 thrown in for reasons unknown.
Last Saturday afternoon i picked up a strong pirate station 6870 khz. I listened for about 45 minutes and moved on. It's unusual for pirates to be on that long at any given time. I went up to ten meters and South America, Japan and Australia were all over the phone portion.
We have had some exceptionally good conditions on 10m that reminded me of the good old days in the beginning of the 80's. I have received plenty of signals in FT8 all along the US west coast as well as the usual East coast here in Munich, Germany. At some point past midnight the band would open up into the US East coast, which is quite odd for the fact that the sun has set almost 6 hours ago. Same the other way around when the sun has set in Indonesia for many hours 10m was still wide open into that part of the world ... sometimes even signals from VK made it. I have heard German hams further away with a weak ground wave signal in SSB while having multiple echoes on top, so their signal would make it several times around the world, that was crazy to see on 10m.
@@n1vca I was a kid with a novice license and was on the cb in 79/80, yeah it was a great solar cycle. With the amount of skip on 10 meters lately I'm hopeful of this cycle coming. I have an Icom 706m2g in a box, I may give 6 meters a try this time!
The signal at 4:10 is actually not a STANAG, it's a Russian CIS-12 signal. Looks like they transmitted it themselves over the Buzzer frequency, which is quite interesting ... The morse code means: =990018??8????? (0 is sometimes transmitted as T)
@@grahamfisher5436 I was listening and heard ..--.., which is a question mark. .--. would be a p, but here, I clearly hear question marks being transmitted :)
All correct, allowing for the fact that what was actually sent were "T"'s, but as you say can also be meant as zero, however none of the other numbers were abbreviated. I was expecting it to be in Cyrilic Morse, which I don't know, but was standard international morse.
Back in the late 1970s I had a radio to listen to John Peel on his late night radio show. It had SW too and occasionally I'd go through the frequency to see if I can catch anything else and now and again there would be Morse code. I became quite good at writing it down and decoding it, but it was all a jumble of letters and numbers. In the 1980s I was lucky enough to find myself posted to West Berlin and had the use of a range of radio equipment (the PRC320). Again, lots of Morse code and clear exchanges between Russians (in Russian of course) and the East German military. We even set up an antenna one day (I forget the terminology, carrier wave?) to talk to Cypress! And picked up Chinese! Great times.
The Morse Code you're struggling with is probably Russian Morse Code, and they have 4 more characters than the Roman alphabet. I think Wikipedia has a list of all the letters in Russian Morse Code. Great video!
33 letters in the Russian Cyrillic alphabet (although some people argue as to whether ё is a separate letter). Having just looked it up, there are six extra codes used in Morse, and some of the codes relate to different letters.
Cyrillic Morse code is almost translit-compatible with Latin one. It has few extra letters, but common ones are still mean pretty much the same. So that code is still gibberish in cyrillic. AFAIK it just says "=99ТТ21??8????"
thank you for the nice video, unfortunately several big transmitters are being shut down A good old LW transmitter bites the dust. Kalundborg 243 kHz will be closing down at the end of 2023, on December 31st. It has been in use since August 29th, 1927. 73 from denmark
And Droitwich on 198kHz will not be far behind, sadly - BBC plans to cease transmissions on LW in April 2024. Kalundborg is on the dials of many an old British valve/tube radio.
I'm wondering if they're still using some sort of old-school soviet signal generator for the buzz. Seen some soviet lab equipment do that, especially if they're mostly analogue. They'll ramp up. rather than just switching on.
It would be interesting to see what kind of electromechanical device it is. I often wonder if the buzz is simply a segmented/timed burst of the mains voltage through a speaker, as some older alarm clocks I have owned used for their alarm system
The Soviet jammers in the 1970-s used Narrow Band Frequency Modulation, and the modulating audio signal was being generated by the device called GMD (Генератор Мешающего Действия), the broadcasting stations on Short Wave on the other hand were using Amplitude Modulation ), the channel spacing being 5 kHz according ITU frequency plan and IFRB in Geneva, Switzerland.
I had no idea people figured out how to make letters on the waterfall. that's incredible .. The introduction of the waterfall on receivers years back was the coolest thing to happen to ham radio.
@@nxxxxznalright mate calm down. Its just frequency, everywhere in nature there's polarity and where there's polarity there exists a spectrums. With a spectrum you can encode information, you can encode information in anything. You could transmit a message using temperate variations or literally anything else. Indeed everything is in constant communication with everything else through the spectrum of reality. The genius comes in in finding ways to exploit those pre existing channels of communication.
yeh i think so... now im curious what he said. ive been listening at night in Georgia on my 80 meter mobile antenna. havnt heard it yet.. might get my inverted V from storage and throw it up.
oh i found it. They wrote """dude you have no clue then what people are able to figure out this is 0.000000000001 of what they're able to figure out""""" man he really got his cuntyness down to the 1 * 10 -12 ...
Have heard the loop sampler on 7103kHz a few times during our early mornings around 1300 UTC. Can get up to 5x9 plus in the Southern Hemisphere, interspersed with jammers and others shouting presumably abuse. Nice catch on the Buzzer Lewis!
I don't know how relevant this is, but maybe someday you could do a video or a series on the radio noises coming from Saturn and other celestial objects. NASA's Cassini probe sent back the creepiest signals I've ever heard, picked up by its sensors inside Saturn's magnetosphere. NASA slowed them down to audio rate and posted them on the web back in the 2000s and I made the mistake of listening to it in a dark room alone late at night. 1950s Forbidden Planet type sound effects. Also, at least one Apollo crew picked up weird signals on their radio while orbiting the Moon, thought to be a heterodyne whistle perhaps. A video about the radio systems used for Apollo comms might be cool, too.
Where there is a magnetosphere there is electric current flowing thru space. We are all living inside a huge electronic circuit. This is what Tesla was talking about - free energy.
I believe the morse on 4628 khz is a common Russian Air Defence frequency and the numbers are transmitted every minute and represent the time and date.
Personal theory about recurring signals: there is no message in the signal, but the exact timing of signal outage/change is the 'message'. Much like a 'book-cypher', it's difficult to suss out the actual message. If a day comes where all of the radio-menagerie goes quiet at once, I would be nervous.
This digital transmission on buzzer channel could be related to recent military training, at least they claim they had it. It would be interesting to fact check if it corresponds with timing
I presume that the buzzer is simply an aid to tuning for those who wish to receive these messages to help locate the station. Historically, and there is nothing new about this kind of activity, to send instructions to spies abroad. Back in the 1970s I used to hear things like this on my Dad's shortwave-tunable radio. Famously the British numbers station, based I think in Cyprus, for the British spies in the Middle East used to use the 'Lincolnshire Poacher' as a tuning aid.
#1:24 That sound is Olivia. A well known HAM mode. I guess it's not to overpower the signal but to overpower the echo. That guy only has to overpower some µW echo with his signal, that's all. It's an OTHR system. They don't live from the sig, the zombies live from it's echo. You kill the echo, you kill the sig. While the sig is too broad for normal HAM radio rigs, if this crap is invading our bands, and 6 or 7 Olivias with 2kHz bandwidth just try to do some Olivia QSO there, this crap will go away.
That digital sound over the buzzer sounds like it’s from Charlie and the chocolate factory where Mike Teevee was being transmitted through the Wonkavision 😊
I knew nothing about the whole genre of airwave communication until this channel appeared in my recommendations a few months ago. Find this stuff very interesting thanks for adding to my knowledge not thst will ever be of use to me 😂. Plus i do love the dnb outro music you use
I'm so excited to be one of the people to have witnessed this live, it was freaky and it felt surreal. I was sitting on University of Twente and I highly recommend it for surfing shortwave if you don't have your own kit. There's also a chat! My callsign is Crow or CrowFM :D
Lewis I found something new to me on the airwaves last night.. Dutch 3.5m band pirates doing "DX". They're a cross between FM broadcast pirates and unlicensed amateurs doing DX. They will typically play some music for a few minutes and call out for DX reports from others, staring their location and signal direction. They'll then sign off to listen for responses and any number of other similar stations will come on for their five minutes or so. Have you ever encountered anything like this elsewhere such as in the UK? I stumbled upon it by chance here but there were about 6 different stations active near me
So, by now we definitely know that it *is* a channel marker. Can’t explain this behavior with anything else. It stopped, transmitted some digital and encrypted message, then continued. It also means that it’s some element of a larger and significant plan, otherwise they hadn’t been going on for decades now. Also, if it was „just“ a way to send info to some spies, they wouldn’t mark and block the channel 24/7. There also was nothing that signaled that a message would be incoming (maybe except the time), which to me means that the channel is monitored 24/7 by some system/s or entity. The fact that the activity increases kinda worries me…
This was my first thought as well, and then to read in other comments that nuclear exercises had taken place makes sense. I had seen before that the buzzer was a channel held as a "dead man's switch" in the event of nuclear war or a similar catastrophic event. So it all kind of fits. And yes, it's very troubling if we consider it for more than just a moment...
@@daddygrasshopperyeah I think that the stuff that’s on the frequency alongside the buzzer is tacked on. I can’t imagine this being a decades long slow building strategy. I could, however, imagine the russians doing random cryptic shit on a transmitter just to waste cia resources.
I really enjoyed this video and SWL in general. I'm 82, living in a senior facility that is very strict on NOT allowing any outside antennas, so relegated to swl. I still maintain my Ham license (wb1o - Boston area).
0:15, There is an interesting phenomenon about the greyline which can be seen on a DF plots of a radio signal. If a transmitter is in the greyline and the DF station is also in a greyline on the other side, the line of bearing (LOB) can see seen on the greyline. If the transmitting station is north of the equator, the radio signal will follow the greyline up over the north pole (if the greyline is that high) and then south towards the equator on the other side. Once the greyline passes the transmitting station then the LOB will snap back to the expected great circle route to the DF station.
Okay so I used chatgpt to listen to and translate the Russian at 8:20 .... The text is a mix of Russian and Ukrainian and appears to be a scrambled message or radio communication. A rough translation would be: "Good morning, Mr. Shashko. I was a dish, [derogatory term]. I am UT-5, I am in the center of hospitality. UT-5, I am in the center of hospitality. Putin is patriotic! Putin is patriotic!". The term "пидарас" is a derogatory slang term often used to demean individuals based on sexual orientation. "УТ-5" and "я в центре гостини" could be call signs or code names, and their specific meanings would depend on the context in which they are used.
I've been to Naro-Fominsk a few times, but not once since learning of the existence of the buzzer. Our local colleagues used to say the Russian soldiers on the near by base would take pot shots at passing cars occasionally. Nice place........
Wow, this really takes me back to my youth listening to shortwave radio including all the Eastern Block garbage. I still have my shortwave reciever (nearly 50 years old, but still in fine working order), but haven't listened to it for years now. It's got all the bands on board and even a stereo unit (back in the day there were even radiostations transmitting in stereo on the shortwave). Reckon I should have another go at it and see what I can pick up.
Being a retired data communications technician, I would venture an educated guess that the "buzzer" is a transmission with no valid data, merely like a teletype RYRY test transmission. It appears when there is valid data to be sent, you can definitely see the buzzer stop and the data transmission begin. The morse code is on a different frequency and may or may not be associated with the buzzer freq. I will decode the morse later. There is a short period on the buzzer frequency where single tones can be heard shifting slowly. I believe these tones are the modem carrier tones before data is given to the modem to send (idle mode).
do you think that this might have any possible conection to the recent events? aka Nuke test or something related to Rus-Iran coalition maybe the more code + the digital cypher before it had something to do with each other, when flipped it looks like human skull
Bloody love your channel it’s so interesting, and I learn a lot, thanks again for your work you put out there for us little people. Ps you could put a drum beat over it and send it back, sorry just being silly. Thanks again Alan from Luton 🤔👏🇬🇧💯👍
It's a radio hooligans. I don't know how this guys actually named in English, but it means people, who jams government radio just for fun. In Russia you can use only low power devices in a CB without licence and all of your talks should be about weather and radio only, but there is many people who don't agree this rule and violate it. This is a risky activity because a party van may appear and not so polite guys can arrest you. In USSR era there was special magazine about radio hobby and once they publish an article about bully in a radio world. Article says that some people transmit awful western music (!) and tried to sell stuff and make deals using their radio (!!!). This article named thes people radio hooligans. For now these people trying to jam military radio as act of protest against the war. I don't think they have success in their business, but at least they trying. Spectrum of jamming signal is interesting too. It contains picture that you can see in the spectrum analyzer of the SDR receiver. Many pictures contains pacific signs and messages like "comrade colonel is gay".
Just watched your video, had a look at the buzzer. It still has that morse code signal in it. It also seems to have, what sounds like high pressure air, interference.
The morse on the buzzer is aviation on the right side and naval on the left side though its rare to ever see anything on the naval side. the stanag and the digital tones was probably the operator trying to clear the jammers off the air I've seen this done with the buzzer several times before since 2011. the digital tone sometimes pops up when no jammers are around and the buzzer does some sort of reset sequence from time to time, I'm positive you can find other videos of this. they are usually labeled as errors but I don't think this is a error I think this is intentional. Know that the buzzer does more than just buzz and say numbers, it has a plethora of various ways it can communicate. which brings us to Kerro Array or Keppo Massiv this facility does more than just house the buzzer.
Keppo Massiv Or Kerro Array is an array north of St.Petersburg, known as the home of the buzzer it is actually a engineering camp that focuses on Radio Engineering it is also RIGHT next to another facility owned by members of the defence industry to create and test both radar and anti drone technology. this is just south west of the Kerro Array. it is not uncommon to get strange signals from this area of Russia.
I LOVE These weird and strange radio signals and interferences. I'll get a cheap radio that has MW and LW and I hope to at least get some interesting out of my country radio signals, that would make me extremely happy. If I ever could hear some of these russian noises, my life would be complete, but I doubt i'll get that far with a $40 radio lol
I uh.....picked up some slovic sounding transmissions in my country.....on the other side of the planet from them.....(hint, we go brrrrrt).....in the clear on a military band using a $40 rtl-sdr.....so ya never know what youll hear!
Interesting stuff. The video of Saturn was amazing, I can't believe you captured the rings so clearly. Was you using a phone camera to capture that and if so what model? Really impressive
@@thewhitefalcon8539 I know that new Huawei phone does, but I'm not sure if apple and Samsung do that as well, I wouldn't have thought so seeing as it's an advertised feature
Not my note 20 ultra. I've looked at the moon through my 20x80 binoculars then used my phones camera through the binoculars and got a picture of exactly what I viewed with my own eyes. Nice tin foil hat BTW.
Very odd. Most of the time I get s8 of QRM/N on the HF bands. I'm going to have to track some of this down, which I was paid to do some forty years ago. 🙂 I think most of it these days is powerline adaptors, switch mode power supplies and lots of other 21st century technology. On the subject of QRM, cigar lighter plug phone chargers can be and usually are, a real problem device., If I plug my phone in, the DAB signal is compromised for most of the time, as well as some noise on two meters. Thanks for another interesting video.
4:20 Listen to how many harmonics are in that signal. If you’re going to jam the “buzzer”, not saying they are, but that’s how you’d do it. I’d say the buzzer was switched off.
I get the buzzer too on 4625, also 6265. Long Wire set up here in North Scotland. Due to all the snow we get the Wire is often sagging down with the weight of the snow, dashed annoying !
Wild how shortwave is still a thing, in the age of the interwebs I used to listen years ago, I've still got radio units with shortwave capability, but I never thought there would be much happening on it now Looks like I was wrong, I'll have to get back into it
You’d be surprised by how many people are interested in this honestly. I’m only 19 but I’ve seen younger folk enjoy this stuff aswell. It’s just so interesting and I’m probably gonna get addicted to this new hobby.
A good way to annoy the buzzer would be to record it and send it back slightly out of sinc with a 272 (or some other random number every day) minute delay.
I’d get two copies. Pitch one up a semitome, and one down a semitone, modulate the playback speed slightly, then modulate the combined tones slightly. That would cause some interference. If you could add a few extra odd harmonics that would really jack things up.
Very interesting. I'll monitor from the southern US. BTW, the Morse starts with a 'new paragraph character' then continues with '99TT18??8?????". You're right....nonsense. Glad to see some interest in short wave. Great fun. Best 73.
great video. glade to see you using the adjustable notch filters . some day I will get the 705 but may go with the 905 to get upper bands. The ICOM 7300 does a super gob with RX using the notch filters and outher features for RX. the letters on the waterfall is a interest . most of that only comes in after sun set hear in NY . with radios like the ICOM 7300 and 705 receiving SW is simple. just a long wire needed. just get it out a bit. no need to worry about SWR when just listing . sometimes a use a MFJ manual antenna tuner to peak the RX signal/ I find it helps when a high noise floor. 73's
I found a Grundig YB 300PE Digital shortwave radio at the thrift store a couple days ago.. I was surprised to see how few signals there are on the radio since I last checked maybe a decade or so ago. Any recommendations for weird radio signals to try to get here in Ontario Canada?
I have a 400pe, and for some reason it doesn’t seem nearly as sensitive as the manual tuning radios I have. I can pick up stations with my Magnavox D8443 boom box that the Grundig can’t. Even some old transistor radios work better in AM than it does.
I’m 76. Was in the radio from the time I was seven. Love the North America, Europe, the Middle East oh my life. Had amateur licenses for many countries. Was involved in Cold War matters. SWL in the 50’s, 60s and 70s was absolutely amazing. I remember listening to a North Korea broadcast of the state opera, “I dreamed I danced on the eyes of Harry Truman.” The Geo import of SW broadcasts for propaganda, espionage and military was demonstrated by the amount of money spent by the smallest countries. Radio South Africa would send a box of propaganda goodies to anyone requesting a QSL card. All meant to attempt to improve their image. The HF bands were a wash with international intrigue.
I’ve been noticing at least two propaganda stations in the 40 meter band the past week, one playing the Soviet national anthem and another with speech. They’ve been on frequencies around the 40 meter digital modes. Looks like there’s some increased activity lately!
It's not "state propaganda", just a bunch of old farts with 200-500w tube trancievers named "sharmanka" (music box) in Russian who desperately miss USSR when grass was greener and light was brighter.😂
I don’t normally praise Russia, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or any of the current nut jobs in charge in that region, but by ‘eck, that national anthem is an absolute banger!
@@southcalder It was the result of a contest. Before 1943 the USSR used The Internationale, then they had a competition to have their own anthem. I agree - it's a great tune. When I was about 14, I wrote to Radio Moscow's "Moscow Mailbag" programme about it, and they answered my question. Whether that got me on an MI5 file, I've no idea. ☺
@@southcalder I appreciate that you specified "nut jobs in charge". As an american I appreciate that, there's good people everywhere regardless of what the power hungry assholes in their region of the world are doing
Yeah, its clearly these slavic radio things that are going on. Had one of these stations last year, and they were cursing on Russia the whole time. Thanks for sharing. Greetings, Jeff
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This might be the best channel on youtube jfc
It is!!!😎 OMFG
@@Truth-And-Freedom
Neither do i
@@jubeaumont6305 look at the lamp posts in your town/village/city......
Little blue Ariel.
Your town/etc is now a giant live phased array antenna since they turned on the new communication system in 2020.
Please research.
All the best to you bud 👍♥️🇬🇧
@Truth-And-Freedom c'mon be nice, we're all interested with radio , we all learn new things at different rates. I've been in radio for 45 years, and it never gets old. So if you know something that someone doesn't , then you offer to teach them or help... okay? ..Cheers! It's all about radio. 73
@@l.a.2646 thanks man, ignore the guy he’s nothing but a troll
The letters written starting at 5:25 are: закончилась. But here they are displayed in reverse order and upside down, a bit confusing to non-russian readers. The word simply means: ended, or stopped. Cheers.
I have never though graphics can be transmitted this way. Is it practical or is it done just for fun?
It might be, but there's no: "a", there's a space and a number of letters before it, it looks like it might be: "передача". Difficult to tell, I thought: закончилась to begin with.
@@steven-k.
- - space ??
@@grahamfisher5436 if you look where the "k" is, there's a space followed by other letters.
@@grahamfisher5436 so, "передача кончилась", which means: "end of transmission"
Years ago when citizen band radios were popular, my friend's house unit developed a similar buzzing sound. It turned out that the neighbor's farm electric fence unit was not properly grounded and caused a feedback through the whole neighborhood.
You are not smart enough to hear the data rates.
Farm people !
My electric fence was messing with my neighbors ability to get the local radio station. Oops! Perhaps that's why a couple of goats tested the fence LOL. Yep, it's real. I think dogs can hear it as well. One of my dogs knew when it was grounding out and almost always risked it.
@@lucasrem But it's ok....they have other important things to do. :)
"And if anybody asks about it, comrade, blame it on the electric fence. The capitalist bastards are so gullible they will eat it up!"
...nope, actually I pissed on the fence!
The letters at 5:25 - 6:20 are sent backwards (last letters go earlier) and upside down. The message says "ХАЛЯВА КОНЧИЛАСЬ", which is literally translated from russian as "The freebie is over", but the contextual meaning is usually akin to "No more Mr. Nice Guy".
And also turned upside down.
Can you translate the audio towards the end?
@@philosoraptor777 Those are insults and slurs towards (1) gays, (2) Ukrainians and (3) implications of Ukrainians being gays. The recording is made in Russian and Ukrainian in deliberate Max Headroom-esque glitchy fashion.
I am Ukrainian and do not approve this message, but since we, Ukrainians, are now desensitized to Russian insults, I’ll try to translate this… ahem… “precious historic document”:
8:20
Fascists - slur (Ukrainans) - slur (gays).
(Switches to Ukrainian) Mr. Mitko (Ukrainian for Michal). Good morning!
Good morning, Mr. Sashko (Ukrainian for Alexander), this is me yellowbelly-gay. I am again from _[inaudible]._
[Transition]
(Switches to Russian) Suck (male genitals)! Moscow, putin - patriots. Suck (male genitals).
putin - patriots. Suck (male genitals)!
Patriots. Suck (male genitals)!
Those who are forcibly, are 50-55. Russia is such a country…
_[Intermission by Ringway Manchester]_
8:50
Yellowbelly - slur (gay). Yellowbelly - slur (gay). Sergey (Russian for Sergio) - yellowbelly. Sergey - yellowbelly. Sergey - yellowbelly. Sergey - yellowbelly...
@@philosoraptor777 Being an Ukrainian propaganda, it's in Ukrainian mostly with some Russian swear words in between
6:00 when read backwards (with the letters mirrored), the word reads «кончилась»- which would translate to the verb “ended” as in “the broadcast ended”
I remember as a teen listening to "This Transmission is for Testing Purposes Only from the Moscow Radiotelephone Station..." and then they'd cite a book, page and block and start reading five letter groups. Yeah, we all knew quite well what it was. Rumor has it that on Christmas Eve they added an extra "and Greetings to our friends in the CIA." to the broadcast.
@@fungo6631 8-) "do you have a source?"
@@fungo6631 unmanned stations, unable to do any LIVE broadcasting.
for agents, you need a receivers for it too. German Enigma levels om demodulation.
“Friends” is right. The CIA and KGB were both so infiltrated by each other that they were practically the same organization.
I always hear "great day testing this is only a test"
Israeli Mossad also used this style.
I haven't got a Scooby what's going on but I'm fascinated. Much of that sounded better than Roger Waters rehash of The Dark Side of the Moon.
As an aside at 3:00 I wept when I first saw Saturn through a telescope in my back yard. That, and stuff on this channel, makes me appreciate how little and insignificant we are. No bad thing. Keep on listening Lewis - loving it!
that we are insignificant is and has been a lie. Search TheTruth, StudyHolyBible verse by verse, Word by Word, if you can letter and Truth (YAHashuaTheChrist) will set you free.halleluYAH.
Had the same response to Jupiter’s moons.
Insignificant yet moving. 😊
Thank you for giving me an interest in something I knew nothing about :) thank you for putting out interesting and educational content. Looking forwards to the next one (which I will watch and pretend to understand until it sort of makes sense)
Wow, seeing letters being spelled out on the buzzer is really unique to me. How neat.. thanks for your uploads
letters are cyrillic saying КОНЧИЛАСЬ which means "she's ended" in russian .. might refer to transmission .. curious is that they're not only mirrored but come in reverse order .. suggesting that the whole thing should be interpreted backward.. have you seen the movie tenet from 2020 .. with a weird irish actor trying to depict an evil russian...
The music playing over the buzzer at 2:16 is “Одиночество” by Ivan Karpov, which translates as “Loneliness”
I swear I heard this music in the Nintendo game Goldeneye64 in the elevator...
The thing about jamming is that it doesnt matter how poorly the blocked signal is heard elsewhere. Jamming is to prevent a signal from being heard in a particular place
near the jammer not to obliterate the signal from the airwaves.
Think about jamming as control bubble where the jammers signal is stronger than the blocked signal. That is the purpose of the technique. Where @ringwaymanchester is listening from is in the overalap of the bubbles so he hears both without one overpowering the other.
The Morse code is BT 990018??8?????
It is Russian Air Defence Morse code broadcast on 4628 Kilohertz CW. It is seasonal activity with this air defence system Morse broadcast and the frequency during Autumn radio period. It has ben transmitting on 4628 Kilohertz CW for decades and goes back to Soviet times. It is a time stamp 0018 is the time. 8 is the air defence district identifier. It will transmit the time stamp every minute. Sometimes it will stream live or practice air defence grid. Again it is an old Soviet system. It is known as M21 by radio enthusiasts.
As an amateur radio operator of over
60 years, the biggest annoyance was
the Russian Woodpecker when it was
around our frequencies 😮
Especially on the high end of the 40 meter novice band
As a CBer, I would agree, but the musician in me says different. Radio Moscow coming through clear as a bell on the valve amp I used for my guitar was even worse.
Interesting nobody would jam it. If it was radar you would need many small powered transmitters with directional antenna to send signal indicating reflection. They would see garbage on their radar and render it useless
@@artur8403 The woodpecker was a moving target, shifting frequencies up and down the bands. You never knew where it was going to show up next.
Also, the general belief back then was that it was a jamming device rather than radar. A bit pointless jamming a jammer.
I was going to say this sounds like the woodpecker.
What a great channel! In the 80's, I loved late-night surfing on short wave 1&2 via my AM/FM boom box. I also recorded oddball stuff to insert into musical compositions. Hard to find radios like that anymore. This is a pleasure. Subscribed.
Ok, russian buzzer being trolled by elevator music is somehow very funny.
There is a youtube recording of this called 'lift music', it mimics 'Girl from impenada' immortalised by the Blues Brothers scene with them stuck in a lift at Chicago City
Hall. FWIW, I did once play it on my iPhone while in a slow lift and got some mighty starnge looks. So sorry if I drifted off the wavelength.
@@patrickbeane4826did you run into Stephen Spielberg when you got out of the elevator?
If it really is something to do with "perimeter"/dead-hand then serious jamming of it (not this, I know this is just trolling) could be a really really bad idea no?
Amazing the crap some people put on here, to justify their position in life, lol
What is a Russian buzzer
This channel is bloody excellent - i cant get enough of these SWL / numbers station stuff - utterly brilliant - not sure I'd have the patience to listen all the time. Could set me KiwiSDR back up again, but not happy the software has been and will probably again be rooted on it.
What does "rooted" mean in this context?
@@misterteaification preprogrammed ??? Setting???
So your saying the software has a root kit in it as in RAT ?
....i listened to the end, i puked 1`s and 0`s.....Again!
I'd like to see a transmitter that could jam the buzzer. I wouldn't want to stand near it though.
Pretty sure in Marvel that would be part of some Superhero's origin story.
Why thought EMR wasn't bad for you ??
( sarcasm)
They revealed they had a single use device that could fully, and permanently, disable The Buzzer back in 1995
Phase cancellation depending on if it’s digital or not
@@hdofuThey call me “The Modulator”
There is something intangibly special about that combination of dreamy, far off music, and Saturn rising through the frame, that made me feel feels I did not even know I was calibrated to receive. Thank you.
The solar system - never mind the universe - is indifferent to our relatively petty grievances.
That’s what I took from it, in part.
Agreed, that was masterfully edited! Why do you think that's Saturn? The Moon is in the next shot.
@@TheGonzogibby As the only self-aware stardust that we're aware of, I'd say our petty grievances are akin to the universal organism plucking out its own eyes
"Girl from Petaluma"
@@kevinprice2274 Hail Eris, homie
One buzzer jammer was actually on the uvb7600 live page. We'd send him song requests and there they were. Made for a very fun evening
Please tell me one of the requests was for Caramelldansen
I remember that on UTwente SDR chat! LoL
@@bytesabre I requested Rick Astley. Had to be done
He let me hot mic the buzzer
Should've played Swedish rhapsody
6:10 the letters read: "кончилась" (upper case and upside down) which means "finished".
8:20 that's clearly ukrainian with hard cursing.
That was the Ukrainian propaganda channel there in the end. I have heard this voice so often now.
There was an evening where you could hear a woman crying and talking, and some guys laughing and talking. After that, background voices got more and louder. Music was playing "Bairaktar", a Ukrainian "we will rock you" version and more. People were laughing and singing in the background. Sounded like an open mic for hours. Still got a recording.
@@fungo6631 Did you hear that one evening too?
I have to upload the recordings some day. Maybe someone can tell whats going on.
Could that have been Bayraktar perhaps?
"The Bayraktar TB2 is a medium-altitude long-endurance unmanned combat aerial vehicle capable of remotely controlled or autonomous flight operations. It is manufactured by the Turkish company Baykar Makina Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş., primarily for the Turkish Armed Forces" (Wikipedia)
@@stephendavis6894 Yes exactly. And there is a Ukrainian song about it: ruclips.net/video/S3FGWPMjl6M/видео.html
And here is the 'we will rock you' cover: ruclips.net/video/C3DUpZVdcXQ/видео.html
And they also played this a few times: ruclips.net/video/lV9q901vS6o/видео.html
@@stephendavis6894there is a comedy song with same name written at the start of the war, that praised drone in question and humiliated russian troops.
I wonder what could be the intended audience. For example, they were calling some Sergey Zheltobryh a bundle of sticks (if you get my meaning) on repeat, or telling someone to, well.. perform certain acts, again, a very short sound byte on repeat.
Could they be jamming some other transmission? Or perhaps jamming the frequencies used by Russian soldiers in the trenches?
2:30 The musical piece is "Girl from Petaluma" by John Dwyer and Ronald Alan Mendelsohn
I was wondering where I’d heard it; intro music used on an unrelated RUclips channel. I recall noting the title then.
Much thanks!
Is it a variation on "The Girl From Ipanema" by Antonio Carlos Jobim? It certainly sounds like a Bossa Nova.
@2:31 Song: Interlude (Ya Still There?) by Lordjay
@@craft-o-matic399 I personally think it’s a Touhou song named “tiny little adiantum “ as Touhou songs seem to to be very popular with pirates
i heard elevator music
Great catches!! This stuff is really fascinating to me. Thanks for sharing.
the pre recorded stuff on 7103 is most likely coming from ukraine. sometimes they broadcast in different languages and i once caught them offending putin in german. not sure if its randomly generated sometimes it sounds as if someone was actually triggering samples on a keyboard
I'm not into Ham (or anything even remotely close heh), nor do I speak any other language, but it seemed obvious enough to me that what was being played back in this video, was either sliced up audio or Text To Speech.
Another brilliant video - I used to only have a passing interest in radio, but your channel keeps teaching me more things and keeping me hooked, it’s fascinating.
You somehow manage to produce new videos that never get boring - there’s always another curiosity or story to follow - please keep it up - and thank you!
I'm so glad I found your channel, this is amazing!
When I was kid, I was fascinated by radios and what I could listen to... I had a small old radioset at our summerhouse, the antenna was busted but I hooked it up with a long piece of steel wire to a metallic curtain rail. I had no idea at first what it would do but I just figured more metal have attached to the antenna, more I can listen into. The place is in Finland near Russian border, then ofc Soviet Union. I could hear a lot of Russian chatter, some very weird stuff too and the woodpecker was there, making a mess of certain frequencies. I loved it and was intrigued without understanding a word that was said. I could also find plethora of other channels from further away, all with that tiny little crummy radio, but the big ass curtain rail was amazing antenna. Oh and one of the things I often found was Russian speaking channels which repeated a phrase followed by a long morse signal and then it repeated. That one I could find always on the same spot easily. Most of the cryptic ones went quiet around the end of the SU.
Has Techmoan bought a short wave transmitter? I could swear that was his channel music trolling the buzzer.
Cuban Baion?
@@fungo6631that would be comedy gold. He's great!
lordjay the intro is the tune being played according to shazam
*_"FLIPPIN' HECK!"_* 😉
Funny cause I didn't hear any Ultramagnetic MC's or Public Enemy
Manipulating transmissions to "draw" characters on the waterfall is so clever!
Similar to ascii art
The Matrix!
A similar technique was used by aphex twin to draw a face in a 1999 song. I suspect within the limitations of pilot tones OFDM transmitters could actually transmit pictures like this by selectively enabling or disabling each orthogonal frequency band and still transmit their signal effectively[with some reduction in overall throughput]. I would like to see a 20 megahertz spectrogram of an LTE carrier modulated in such a way so that images could be transmitted in the waterfall spectrogram, and phones still could receive data. The picture would have lines and dots through it but I suspect it would work. Effectively each physical resource block would become a pixel😊
I've never seen or heard of doing that before. Is it common? Do that many people "listen" with FFT waterfalls?
@@stephen70edwards All the free WebSDR sites seem to have some variant of it, if you do the listening that way. YMMV if you use your own hardware, instead of popping onto a public server.
My love of radio was started as a kid listening at night to distant broadcasts on LW and MW. But when I found these weird noses, it would freak me out. They sound so eerie. It definitely helps when you know what they are!
Me too! Early 60’s…
Same here!!! Early 70s !!
Managed to really clearly receive one of the propaganda channels a couple of days ago at night.
It was quite creepy, especially because it was really dark outside and i was standing in the middle of a field with my pocket radio. I am in Germany and don't have the equipment to listen to the short wave bands well most of the time.
Amazing how good the propagation is getting, now that the winter is slowly approaching.
Hell nah you crazy man listening to number stations in a field. I have to check my door at home lol, it just makes me nervous
@@dermotfixter813 try shortwave, in the middle of a rainy/snowy/stormy night, alone, in a cabin, in the forest... i did, it was cozy af lol
oh yeah - it'll give you the creeps for sure. I've said on this channel before that , I grew up in the cold war days, (abt.1978-1988) albeit I couldn't take my 40-50 pound glowing tube radio anywhere , other than my desktop. LOL ! but yeah the old numbers stations and also the ( what the h3ll is that sound) was enough to scare the daylights out of me. cold snowy winter nights and a teenage imagination with the haunting sounds of single sideband only radio is enough nightmare fuel for anyone ! - here in Pennsylvania , I could hear Europe , the middle east, mostly over the north pole - so that made a weird sound as the radio waves passed over magnetic north as well. BTW the solar cycle is still on the upswing , so you'll hear more and more and also as the nighttime gets longer too - enjoy your radio! 73..
Right?! Fascinating but crazy creepy listening at night sitting in my recliner let alone in a field or in the woods is the stuff of nightmares!
I’m looking to get another shortwave receiver radio soon.
I used to go out away from populated areas to DX.
Interestingly, I have picked up German and Chinese radio broadcasts.
This was amazing, as I knew those areas were flooded in sunlight!
Other interesting things you can do with a sideband is pick up signals along power lines and railroad tracks!
You can’t quite interpret them, but the signals are there!
This is what the morse code message at 6:56 says: BT 99 00 18 IMI IMI 8 IMI IMI IMI IMI. The BT means "Break Text" aka "Message To Follow". The six numbers equate to unknown. Each "IMI" is basically a question mark with the number 8 thrown in for reasons unknown.
= 9 9 T T 2 1 ? ? 8 ? ? ? ?
Last Saturday afternoon i picked up a strong pirate station 6870 khz. I listened for about 45 minutes and moved on. It's unusual for pirates to be on that long at any given time. I went up to ten meters and South America, Japan and Australia were all over the phone portion.
We have had some exceptionally good conditions on 10m that reminded me of the good old days in the beginning of the 80's. I have received plenty of signals in FT8 all along the US west coast as well as the usual East coast here in Munich, Germany. At some point past midnight the band would open up into the US East coast, which is quite odd for the fact that the sun has set almost 6 hours ago. Same the other way around when the sun has set in Indonesia for many hours 10m was still wide open into that part of the world ... sometimes even signals from VK made it. I have heard German hams further away with a weak ground wave signal in SSB while having multiple echoes on top, so their signal would make it several times around the world, that was crazy to see on 10m.
What did they play? Pirates tend to have the best music selection 😁
No jungle
@@RT-qd8yl Alternative music mostly with some unique bumper type announcements thrown in.
@@n1vca I was a kid with a novice license and was on the cb in 79/80, yeah it was a great solar cycle. With the amount of skip on 10 meters lately I'm hopeful of this cycle coming. I have an Icom 706m2g in a box, I may give 6 meters a try this time!
The signal at 4:10 is actually not a STANAG, it's a Russian CIS-12 signal. Looks like they transmitted it themselves over the Buzzer frequency, which is quite interesting ...
The morse code means: =990018??8????? (0 is sometimes transmitted as T)
Are you reading / entering
The .--. As .--.
Which means nothing ( as in you get a ? )
Instead of •--•
Which means P
? 😉🤗😎
P P P P
@@grahamfisher5436 I was listening and heard ..--.., which is a question mark.
.--. would be a p, but here, I clearly hear question marks being transmitted :)
@sgan81 thank for that 👍
So the - -
Isn't T T
??
All correct, allowing for the fact that what was actually sent were "T"'s, but as you say can also be meant as zero, however none of the other numbers were abbreviated. I was expecting it to be in Cyrilic Morse, which I don't know, but was standard international morse.
👍
Back in the late 1970s I had a radio to listen to John Peel on his late night radio show. It had SW too and occasionally I'd go through the frequency to see if I can catch anything else and now and again there would be Morse code. I became quite good at writing it down and decoding it, but it was all a jumble of letters and numbers. In the 1980s I was lucky enough to find myself posted to West Berlin and had the use of a range of radio equipment (the PRC320). Again, lots of Morse code and clear exchanges between Russians (in Russian of course) and the East German military. We even set up an antenna one day (I forget the terminology, carrier wave?) to talk to Cypress! And picked up Chinese! Great times.
John peel was an absolute legend!
Do you mean Beverage antenna?
The Morse Code you're struggling with is probably Russian Morse Code, and they have 4 more characters than the Roman alphabet. I think Wikipedia has a list of all the letters in Russian Morse Code. Great video!
33 letters in the Russian Cyrillic alphabet (although some people argue as to whether ё is a separate letter). Having just looked it up, there are six extra codes used in Morse, and some of the codes relate to different letters.
Cyrillic Morse code is almost translit-compatible with Latin one. It has few extra letters, but common ones are still mean pretty much the same. So that code is still gibberish in cyrillic. AFAIK it just says "=99ТТ21??8????"
@@voidseeker4394could be a launch code transmission
In the "western hemisphere," the morse code will vary from one character to four characters for letters and five characters for numbers.
or being Russian they just add something extra to pss everyone off.
thank you for the nice video, unfortunately several big transmitters are being shut down
A good old LW transmitter bites the dust.
Kalundborg 243 kHz will be closing down at the end of 2023, on December 31st.
It has been in use since August 29th, 1927. 73 from denmark
And Droitwich on 198kHz will not be far behind, sadly - BBC plans to cease transmissions on LW in April 2024. Kalundborg is on the dials of many an old British valve/tube radio.
Lewis, outstanding video my friend. Wow is all I can say.
I'm wondering if they're still using some sort of old-school soviet signal generator for the buzz. Seen some soviet lab equipment do that, especially if they're mostly analogue. They'll ramp up. rather than just switching on.
It would be interesting to see what kind of electromechanical device it is. I often wonder if the buzz is simply a segmented/timed burst of the mains voltage through a speaker, as some older alarm clocks I have owned used for their alarm system
The Soviet jammers in the 1970-s used Narrow Band Frequency Modulation, and the modulating audio signal was being generated by the device called GMD (Генератор Мешающего Действия), the broadcasting stations on Short Wave on the other hand were using Amplitude Modulation ), the channel spacing being 5 kHz according ITU frequency plan and IFRB in Geneva, Switzerland.
I had no idea people figured out how to make letters on the waterfall. that's incredible .. The introduction of the waterfall on receivers years back was the coolest thing to happen to ham radio.
@@nxxxxznalright mate calm down. Its just frequency, everywhere in nature there's polarity and where there's polarity there exists a spectrums. With a spectrum you can encode information, you can encode information in anything. You could transmit a message using temperate variations or literally anything else. Indeed everything is in constant communication with everything else through the spectrum of reality. The genius comes in in finding ways to exploit those pre existing channels of communication.
@@1invag did this person delete their comment. i cant even see it...
I can hear them within the signal. Like a new language. But I got moved 4 grades ahead in school!
yeh i think so... now im curious what he said. ive been listening at night in Georgia on my 80 meter mobile antenna. havnt heard it yet.. might get my inverted V from storage and throw it up.
oh i found it. They wrote """dude you have no clue then what people are able to figure out this is 0.000000000001 of what they're able to figure out""""" man he really got his cuntyness down to the 1 * 10 -12 ...
Have heard the loop sampler on 7103kHz a few times during our early mornings around 1300 UTC.
Can get up to 5x9 plus in the Southern Hemisphere, interspersed with jammers and others shouting presumably abuse.
Nice catch on the Buzzer Lewis!
7105 Китай или Белоруссия.
I don't know how relevant this is, but maybe someday you could do a video or a series on the radio noises coming from Saturn and other celestial objects. NASA's Cassini probe sent back the creepiest signals I've ever heard, picked up by its sensors inside Saturn's magnetosphere. NASA slowed them down to audio rate and posted them on the web back in the 2000s and I made the mistake of listening to it in a dark room alone late at night. 1950s Forbidden Planet type sound effects. Also, at least one Apollo crew picked up weird signals on their radio while orbiting the Moon, thought to be a heterodyne whistle perhaps. A video about the radio systems used for Apollo comms might be cool, too.
Where there is a magnetosphere there is electric current flowing thru space. We are all living inside a huge electronic circuit. This is what Tesla was talking about - free energy.
@@gerrydepp8164 Um, ok...
Check out curious marc for all thing apollo electronics. Fascinating stuff!
It's an Electric Universe.
@@RCAvhstapeyes…ok. Learn basic hermetics for a start
Lettters at 6:07 are just a word "КОНЧИЛАСЬ" ("ended" on russian), mirrored and rotated upside down
Yeah. I got OVER. Same thing I guess.
Glad to hear that I wasn't the only one going crazy trying to figure out what that sound was over the buzzer on the 10th
I believe the morse on 4628 khz is a common Russian Air Defence frequency and the numbers are transmitted every minute and represent the time and date.
Nice catches! Very interesting video. Thank you for sharing!
Great video, Lewis! I'm monitoring UVB-76 now and hearing CW over it's signal. 73
Cheers Clint!
Personal theory about recurring signals: there is no message in the signal, but the exact timing of signal outage/change is the 'message'.
Much like a 'book-cypher', it's difficult to suss out the actual message.
If a day comes where all of the radio-menagerie goes quiet at once, I would be nervous.
Was half expecting (hoping) to see Aphex Twin appear 😊
This digital transmission on buzzer channel could be related to recent military training, at least they claim they had it. It would be interesting to fact check if it corresponds with timing
The digital signal looks like a remote control system signal to activate something.
Maybe to turn on a record feature at the receiver.
Very interesting and entertaining video, I would love to see more like these!
Have a nice day mate.
I presume that the buzzer is simply an aid to tuning for those who wish to receive these messages to help locate the station. Historically, and there is nothing new about this kind of activity, to send instructions to spies abroad. Back in the 1970s I used to hear things like this on my Dad's shortwave-tunable radio. Famously the British numbers station, based I think in Cyprus, for the British spies in the Middle East used to use the 'Lincolnshire Poacher' as a tuning aid.
@AarreLisakki Thanks. Interesting.
#1:24 That sound is Olivia. A well known HAM mode. I guess it's not to overpower the signal but to overpower the echo. That guy only has to overpower some µW echo with his signal, that's all. It's an OTHR system. They don't live from the sig, the zombies live from it's echo. You kill the echo, you kill the sig. While the sig is too broad for normal HAM radio rigs, if this crap is invading our bands, and 6 or 7 Olivias with 2kHz bandwidth just try to do some Olivia QSO there, this crap will go away.
The music’s called ‘The Girl from Petaluma’ by a band called Cocktail Shakers - (it’s on RUclips).
I prefer "The Girl from Ipanema". 🙂
@2:31 Song: Interlude (Ya Still There?) by Lordjay
That digital sound over the buzzer sounds like it’s from Charlie and the chocolate factory where Mike Teevee was being transmitted through the Wonkavision 😊
Is Mike TV chocolate now? Can we eat him?
I knew nothing about the whole genre of airwave communication until this channel appeared in my recommendations a few months ago. Find this stuff very interesting thanks for adding to my knowledge not thst will ever be of use to me 😂. Plus i do love the dnb outro music you use
Great video, really interesting.
Have you noticed any changes in the alarm lately?
I'm so excited to be one of the people to have witnessed this live, it was freaky and it felt surreal. I was sitting on University of Twente and I highly recommend it for surfing shortwave if you don't have your own kit. There's also a chat! My callsign is Crow or CrowFM :D
Lewis I found something new to me on the airwaves last night..
Dutch 3.5m band pirates doing "DX". They're a cross between FM broadcast pirates and unlicensed amateurs doing DX. They will typically play some music for a few minutes and call out for DX reports from others, staring their location and signal direction. They'll then sign off to listen for responses and any number of other similar stations will come on for their five minutes or so. Have you ever encountered anything like this elsewhere such as in the UK? I stumbled upon it by chance here but there were about 6 different stations active near me
So, by now we definitely know that it *is* a channel marker. Can’t explain this behavior with anything else. It stopped, transmitted some digital and encrypted message, then continued.
It also means that it’s some element of a larger and significant plan, otherwise they hadn’t been going on for decades now.
Also, if it was „just“ a way to send info to some spies, they wouldn’t mark and block the channel 24/7. There also was nothing that signaled that a message would be incoming (maybe except the time), which to me means that the channel is monitored 24/7 by some system/s or entity.
The fact that the activity increases kinda worries me…
This was my first thought as well, and then to read in other comments that nuclear exercises had taken place makes sense. I had seen before that the buzzer was a channel held as a "dead man's switch" in the event of nuclear war or a similar catastrophic event. So it all kind of fits. And yes, it's very troubling if we consider it for more than just a moment...
@@daddygrasshopper Closer to the "big bang" than ever before, it does fit, when else are these buzzers supposed to work if not right now.
@@daddygrasshopperyeah I think that the stuff that’s on the frequency alongside the buzzer is tacked on. I can’t imagine this being a decades long slow building strategy. I could, however, imagine the russians doing random cryptic shit on a transmitter just to waste cia resources.
Black propaganda
I really enjoyed this video and SWL in general. I'm 82, living in a senior facility that is very strict on NOT allowing any outside antennas, so relegated to swl. I still maintain my Ham license (wb1o - Boston area).
Missed opportunity to put Rick Astley to work.
0:15, There is an interesting phenomenon about the greyline which can be seen on a DF plots of a radio signal. If a transmitter is in the greyline and the DF station is also in a greyline on the other side, the line of bearing (LOB) can see seen on the greyline. If the transmitting station is north of the equator, the radio signal will follow the greyline up over the north pole (if the greyline is that high) and then south towards the equator on the other side. Once the greyline passes the transmitting station then the LOB will snap back to the expected great circle route to the DF station.
The tones at 6:15 made my Alsatian puppy howl like crazy. Maybe she was receiving a new firmware update :)
They tried to hack your dog!
It is a tritone… 🤣
I hope you had her plugged in! 😮
Definitely wouldn't want your pooch to accidentally get bricked! 😅
Okay so I used chatgpt to listen to and translate the Russian at 8:20 .... The text is a mix of Russian and Ukrainian and appears to be a scrambled message or radio communication. A rough translation would be: "Good morning, Mr. Shashko. I was a dish, [derogatory term]. I am UT-5, I am in the center of hospitality. UT-5, I am in the center of hospitality. Putin is patriotic! Putin is patriotic!". The term "пидарас" is a derogatory slang term often used to demean individuals based on sexual orientation. "УТ-5" and "я в центре гостини" could be call signs or code names, and their specific meanings would depend on the context in which they are used.
Music identified at 2:00 , it's Ivan Karpov doing Oanhoyectb.
Wonderful, moody, evocative intro video & music. TOP job, Ringway!
I've been to Naro-Fominsk a few times, but not once since learning of the existence of the buzzer. Our local colleagues used to say the Russian soldiers on the near by base would take pot shots at passing cars occasionally. Nice place........
6:06 says translated from Russian "the freebie is over", the words are turned upside down and mirrored, second word is hard to read.
Wow, this really takes me back to my youth listening to shortwave radio including all the Eastern Block garbage. I still have my shortwave reciever (nearly 50 years old, but still in fine working order), but haven't listened to it for years now. It's got all the bands on board and even a stereo unit (back in the day there were even radiostations transmitting in stereo on the shortwave). Reckon I should have another go at it and see what I can pick up.
Sadly shortwave broadcasts in English are mostly weird Christian-fascist programs.
Being a retired data communications technician, I would venture an educated guess that the "buzzer" is a transmission
with no valid data, merely like a teletype RYRY test transmission. It appears when there is valid data to be sent, you
can definitely see the buzzer stop and the data transmission begin. The morse code is on a different frequency
and may or may not be associated with the buzzer freq. I will decode the morse later. There is a short period on the
buzzer frequency where single tones can be heard shifting slowly. I believe these tones are the modem carrier tones before data
is given to the modem to send (idle mode).
do you think that this might have any possible conection to the recent events? aka Nuke test or something related to Rus-Iran coalition maybe the more code + the digital cypher before it had something to do with each other,
when flipped it looks like human skull
Bloody love your channel it’s so interesting, and I learn a lot, thanks again for your work you put out there for us little people. Ps you could put a drum beat over it and send it back, sorry just being silly. Thanks again Alan from Luton 🤔👏🇬🇧💯👍
It's a radio hooligans. I don't know how this guys actually named in English, but it means people, who jams government radio just for fun. In Russia you can use only low power devices in a CB without licence and all of your talks should be about weather and radio only, but there is many people who don't agree this rule and violate it. This is a risky activity because a party van may appear and not so polite guys can arrest you. In USSR era there was special magazine about radio hobby and once they publish an article about bully in a radio world. Article says that some people transmit awful western music (!) and tried to sell stuff and make deals using their radio (!!!). This article named thes people radio hooligans. For now these people trying to jam military radio as act of protest against the war. I don't think they have success in their business, but at least they trying. Spectrum of jamming signal is interesting too. It contains picture that you can see in the spectrum analyzer of the SDR receiver. Many pictures contains pacific signs and messages like "comrade colonel is gay".
I vote for a group 'field trip' to the Buzzer compound. We can make out we are terribly lost and ask to come in and use their phone...
Don't be silly. The phones there don't work!
I'm pretty sure he meant to say transmitter @@paulplack490
I love all of the videos. they are great for learning about new activity's in the on the shortwave radio
and also watching his videos for fun !
Just watched your video, had a look at the buzzer. It still has that morse code signal in it. It also seems to have, what sounds like high pressure air, interference.
The morse on the buzzer is aviation on the right side and naval on the left side though its rare to ever see anything on the naval side. the stanag and the digital tones was probably the operator trying to clear the jammers off the air I've seen this done with the buzzer several times before since 2011. the digital tone sometimes pops up when no jammers are around and the buzzer does some sort of reset sequence from time to time, I'm positive you can find other videos of this. they are usually labeled as errors but I don't think this is a error I think this is intentional. Know that the buzzer does more than just buzz and say numbers, it has a plethora of various ways it can communicate. which brings us to Kerro Array or Keppo Massiv this facility does more than just house the buzzer.
Keppo Massiv Or Kerro Array is an array north of St.Petersburg, known as the home of the buzzer it is actually a engineering camp that focuses on Radio Engineering it is also RIGHT next to another facility owned by members of the defence industry to create and test both radar and anti drone technology. this is just south west of the Kerro Array. it is not uncommon to get strange signals from this area of Russia.
I LOVE These weird and strange radio signals and interferences. I'll get a cheap radio that has MW and LW and I hope to at least get some interesting out of my country radio signals, that would make me extremely happy. If I ever could hear some of these russian noises, my life would be complete, but I doubt i'll get that far with a $40 radio lol
I uh.....picked up some slovic sounding transmissions in my country.....on the other side of the planet from them.....(hint, we go brrrrrt).....in the clear on a military band using a $40 rtl-sdr.....so ya never know what youll hear!
My decoder ring translated one of the signals as "All Your Bases Belong To Us." 😁
Interesting stuff. The video of Saturn was amazing, I can't believe you captured the rings so clearly. Was you using a phone camera to capture that and if so what model? Really impressive
Nikon p1000 Matt
@@RingwayManchester Great choice of camera.
@@thewhitefalcon8539 Some do not all.
@@thewhitefalcon8539
I know that new Huawei phone does, but I'm not sure if apple and Samsung do that as well, I wouldn't have thought so seeing as it's an advertised feature
Not my note 20 ultra. I've looked at the moon through my 20x80 binoculars then used my phones camera through the binoculars and got a picture of exactly what I viewed with my own eyes. Nice tin foil hat BTW.
Best youtube intro ever! It really sets the mood. Well done.
Amazing how we can communicate to almost anywhere in world using relatively primitive equipment.
radio is still cooler than computer stuff I think.
Or off world, such as the Voyager probes' ~10 W transmitters, two million Earth-diameters away 😊
It's faint, so a bit tricky, but still "just radio".
Very odd. Most of the time I get s8 of QRM/N on the HF bands. I'm going to have to track some of this down, which I was paid to do some forty years ago. 🙂 I think most of it these days is powerline adaptors, switch mode power supplies and lots of other 21st century technology. On the subject of QRM, cigar lighter plug phone chargers can be and usually are, a real problem device., If I plug my phone in, the DAB signal is compromised for most of the time, as well as some noise on two meters. Thanks for another interesting video.
The Morse code cracked
"Greetings from Neuschwabenland, Base 211. We the Imperial Germans are very shortly......"
That's it. Just stops at that.
4:20 Listen to how many harmonics are in that signal. If you’re going to jam the “buzzer”, not saying they are, but that’s how you’d do it. I’d say the buzzer was switched off.
1:40 That sounds a lot like a RACAL SS2931 Jamcat, a jamming device used with Clansman radios.
I get the buzzer too on 4625, also 6265. Long Wire set up here in North Scotland. Due to all the snow we get the Wire is often sagging down with the weight of the snow, dashed annoying !
You really should stay in more, Lewis.
Bet you never thought you'd hear that. 😉
Great video Lewis. I have my ear to the dial
You and me both!
Wild how shortwave is still a thing, in the age of the interwebs
I used to listen years ago, I've still got radio units with shortwave capability, but I never thought there would be much happening on it now
Looks like I was wrong, I'll have to get back into it
You’d be surprised by how many people are interested in this honestly. I’m only 19 but I’ve seen younger folk enjoy this stuff aswell. It’s just so interesting and I’m probably gonna get addicted to this new hobby.
Bloody loved this video! Really interesting
A good way to annoy the buzzer would be to record it and send it back slightly out of sinc with a 272 (or some other random number every day) minute delay.
I’d get two copies. Pitch one up a semitome, and one down a semitone, modulate the playback speed slightly, then modulate the combined tones slightly. That would cause some interference. If you could add a few extra odd harmonics that would really jack things up.
Very interesting. I'll monitor from the southern US. BTW, the Morse starts with a 'new paragraph character' then continues with '99TT18??8?????". You're right....nonsense. Glad to see some interest in short wave. Great fun. Best 73.
great video. glade to see you using the adjustable notch filters . some day I will get the 705 but may go with the 905 to get upper bands. The ICOM 7300 does a super gob with RX using the notch filters and outher features for RX. the letters on the waterfall is a interest . most of that only comes in after sun set hear in NY . with radios like the ICOM 7300 and 705 receiving SW is simple. just a long wire needed. just get it out a bit. no need to worry about SWR when just listing . sometimes a use a MFJ manual antenna tuner to peak the RX signal/ I find it helps when a high noise floor. 73's
Solid!
Top KEK!
Peace be with you.
I found a Grundig YB 300PE Digital shortwave radio at the thrift store a couple days ago.. I was surprised to see how few signals there are on the radio since I last checked maybe a decade or so ago. Any recommendations for weird radio signals to try to get here in Ontario Canada?
Can you mate an antenna to it? Just get the longest line you can and you'll pick up some stuff.
@@Grantly Yes, it actually came with a really long line antenna, I'm going to do some testing once the sun goes down.
Good find my friend! I always look for radios at yard sales and thrift shops but no luck . Glad you did and good DX. 73.
I have a 400pe, and for some reason it doesn’t seem nearly as sensitive as the manual tuning radios I have. I can pick up stations with my Magnavox D8443 boom box that the Grundig can’t. Even some old transistor radios work better in AM than it does.
I’m 76. Was in the radio from the time I was seven. Love the North America, Europe, the Middle East oh my life. Had amateur licenses for many countries. Was involved in Cold War matters. SWL in the 50’s, 60s and 70s was absolutely amazing. I remember listening to a North Korea broadcast of the state opera, “I dreamed I danced on the eyes of Harry Truman.” The Geo import of SW broadcasts for propaganda, espionage and military was demonstrated by the amount of money spent by the smallest countries. Radio South Africa would send a box of propaganda goodies to anyone requesting a QSL card. All meant to attempt to improve their image. The HF bands were a wash with international intrigue.
I’ve been noticing at least two propaganda stations in the 40 meter band the past week, one playing the Soviet national anthem and another with speech. They’ve been on frequencies around the 40 meter digital modes. Looks like there’s some increased activity lately!
It's not "state propaganda", just a bunch of old farts with 200-500w tube trancievers named "sharmanka" (music box) in Russian who desperately miss USSR when grass was greener and light was brighter.😂
I don’t normally praise Russia, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or any of the current nut jobs in charge in that region, but by ‘eck, that national anthem is an absolute banger!
@@southcalder It was the result of a contest. Before 1943 the USSR used The Internationale, then they had a competition to have their own anthem. I agree - it's a great tune.
When I was about 14, I wrote to Radio Moscow's "Moscow Mailbag" programme about it, and they answered my question. Whether that got me on an MI5 file, I've no idea. ☺
@@southcalder I appreciate that you specified "nut jobs in charge". As an american I appreciate that, there's good people everywhere regardless of what the power hungry assholes in their region of the world are doing
@@Boring_user_nameHigh Hopes lol
Interesting video. Will need to look out for this. Thanks Lewis.
Yeah, its clearly these slavic radio things that are going on. Had one of these stations last year, and they were cursing on Russia the whole time.
Thanks for sharing.
Greetings,
Jeff
Yep, there are basically HAM riots on the shortwave since the war started.