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Mysterious Russian Radio Station Goes Offline
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06-06-2010 04:36PM#1
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVqaoxxsN7Q
The video is really cool. This is the Sweedish Rhapsody, it's my favourite one. I couldn't think of the name earlier.
It's strange that they used the voice of a little German girl though. Especially since most of these transmissions are scrammed noise based.
It does get a little wierd/scary at the end! (Just a warning to you kids I did scare!)
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AlcoholicA wrote: »that is ****ed, reminded me of the ring!
I don't know wheter there is some strange story behind these radio stations but it could be turned into an excellent film?
Ye it could be turned into a film.Especially a big hollywood one if they want to cover up what happened
After all i get told ALOT by some people on this forum that i am being ridiculous because they saw that in a fictional movie.
The suggestion they went to digital was funny but possibly partly true lol0 -
These things seriously freaky me out.
Ever since my first taste of what a number station sounded like:
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jill_valentine wrote: »Wilco and The Besnard Lakes have both used bits of the signals for songs too.
Interesting stuff. And f*cking brilliant songs.
Oooo, thanks for the tip!
Ive only listened to The Bernard Lakes for a few minutes and they sound great, like a modern day pink floyd.
Will check out Wilco too,
Sorry for derailing the thread, relevant replies may proceed..........:p0 -
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Two of the songs with the number signals:
Just out of interest. The Besnard Lakes have used Number Signal samples a few times. The Wilco one is notable though - the sample comes from The Conet Project, a reasonably well known compilation of recordings of shortwave Number Signals. The company that made the compilation sued over copyright, but since, technically, the "owners" of the original signals weren't known, I'm not sure their claim could have held up. In any event, the band settled out of court before it was tested. The album is named after the sample used - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, from the NATO phonetic alphabet.
Carry on. 0 -
More info on them here , the Conet Project is not something you want to be listening to late at night though.
Very unsettling that The Buzzer went offline
The purpose of the stations is pretty much unknown, but there's a few theories, one is that they are a 'Dead Man's Hand'... if they stop transmitting, then something bad has occurred.
Another is that they are spy stations, and, when used with a one-time pad, transmit messages.
Another is that they are used to calibrate military listening equipment, like huge curtain antennas, (like the Russian Woodpecker)that usually can pick up sounds that are below what most radio equipment can, or might be mistaken for noise, and can apparently hear halfway around the globe if needed. So these need to be kept primed and calibrated, and that's what number stations are for.0 -
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Silverfish wrote: »More info on them here , the Conet Project is not something you want to be listening to late at night though.
Very unsettling that The Buzzer went offline
The purpose of the stations is pretty much unknown, but there's a few theories, one is that they are a 'Dead Man's Hand'... if they stop transmitting, then something bad has occurred.
Another is that they are spy stations, and, when used with a one-time pad, transmit messages.
Another is that they are used to calibrate military listening equipment, like huge curtain antennas, (like the Russian Woodpecker)that usually can pick up sounds that are below what most radio equipment can, or might be mistaken for noise, and can apparently hear halfway around the globe if needed. So these need to be kept primed and calibrated, and that's what number stations are for.
Ahh that first link scared the crap out of me.0 -
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Interesting topic all right, never heard of these before.
I don't really get why it's scary/freaky tho?
Am i missing something
Thats the one that seems to freak most people out.0 -
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Silverfish wrote: »Swedish Rhapsody? There's an ice-cream van here that plays that.
Put me off icecream.
This is where the Buzzer apparently broadcasts from.
Would that place be abandoned? Id imagine its a military place
Yeah scary!, specialy when you keep imagining if you turn around your gonna see the grudge :cool:
Edit: sorry no the scond one is more scary
UVB-76 station
what are those circles?0 -
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AlcoholicA wrote: »that is ****ed, reminded me of the ring!
I don't know wheter there is some strange story behind these radio stations but it could be turned into an excellent film?
Reminds me of The Ring too! Could be a film in this ...
But man, this is some freaky-sheeeet alright! ... It's kinda surreal though how well it translates into music too ... Maybe that's it? What if it's some old Cold War mind-fukc psyops what's been left running and warped itself into an art-form. Like maybe some soviet spark had the idea to just pump out random messages which mean absolutely nothing. Spy networks on all sides were continually second-guessing themselves anyway, still are ... maybe it began as an attempt to confuse and distract, and further squander resources ...
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jill_valentine wrote: »Two of the songs with the number signals:
Just out of interest. The Besnard Lakes have used Number Signal samples a few times. The Wilco one is notable though - the sample comes from The Conet Project, a reasonably well known compilation of recordings of shortwave Number Signals. The company that made the compilation sued over copyright, but since, technically, the "owners" of the original signals weren't known, I'm not sure their claim could have held up. In any event, the band settled out of court before it was tested. The album is named after the sample used - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, from the NATO phonetic alphabet.
Carry on.
good bands, btw ...... and Besnard Lakes have a song called 'For Agent 13' ... ?
I'm I reading too much into all this ... 0 -
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Would that place be abandoned? Id imagine its a military place
Yeah scary!, specialy when you keep imagining if you turn around your gonna see the grudge :cool:
Edit: sorry no the scond one is more scary
UVB-76 station
what are those circles?
does any one else find this intresting?
it cold be a doomsday station like if that radio changes or is programmed there could be missiles released
thories ofc0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAMETKvCpnE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ify-buS9JUU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GanNE5LWF4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVqaoxxsN7Q
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