The mysterious radio station from Russia, which received the unofficial nickname "buzzer", has continued to haunt the minds of Western inhabitants for decades, now and then appearing on the pages of various media outlets. She also fell in love with lovers of conspiracy theories. According to the German newspaper Bild, some believe that this radio station is used to transmit messages to the Russian spy network abroad, others consider it part of the Perimeter system, created in case of a nuclear war, and still others are completely ready to believe that “the buzzer is used for contact with aliens. As they say, who is in what is much.
According to the German journalist Ingrid Ragard, the mysterious Russian radio station UVB-76 has been known since the 1980s. It broadcasts a repetitive buzzing sound every day at the same frequency (4625 kHz), which is occasionally interrupted by the reading of "cryptic messages." The station got its informal nickname because of its peculiar sound on the air. According to Ingrid Ragard, until 2010, the radio signal was transmitted from the village of Povarovo, located in the Moscow region.
It should be noted that at present the 624th transmitting radio center of the 1st communication center of the General Staff of the Russian Ministry of Defense, which was located in Povarovo, 19 kilometers from Moscow, is completely abandoned and is not used by the military. Like many former military installations on the territory of Russia, now it is of interest only to fans of excursions to such abandoned objects, which would be ideal for filming a movie like Stalker. With photographs that testify to the current state of the 624th transmitting radio center, today everyone can get acquainted on the Internet, they are in the mass of blogs. But with the termination of the operation of the 624th transmitting radio center of the 1st communication center of the General Staff of the Ministry of Defense, the signal did not go anywhere.
According to information from open sources, broadcasting continues today. At least two signal transmitters are used to create sustainable coverage throughout the entire Western Military District of Russia. One of them is located in Naro-Fominsk - the transmitting radio center of the 69th communications center of the RF Ministry of Defense, and in Kerro, on the territory of the Leningrad region - the transmitting radio center of the 60th communications center "Vulkan" of the RF Defense Ministry. According to other sources, the buzzers are no longer broadcasting from Kerro, but directly from St. Petersburg from 10 Dvortsovaya Square, where the United Strategic Command of the Western Military District is located. Information about an open tender for repair work and maintenance of the antenna field of the TRDC 60 communication center located at the address: St. Petersburg, Palace Square, 10, is freely available.
It is worth noting that the mysterious radio station, which in practice is not so mysterious, has been broadcasting for over 30 years (presumably broadcasting began in the late 1970s) on the same frequency. Since the discovery of this station by radio amateurs, it constantly broadcasts a buzz. However, from time to time it stops, and a voice in Russian reads out certain messages - a mixture of numbers, Russian words or names. The first callsign of this shortwave radio station was UVB-76. The earliest available recording of a UVB-76 broadcast dates back to 1982. For at least a decade until 1992, this station broadcast practically only sound signals, occasionally switching to buzzing beep signals lasting about a second, which were transmitted at a rate of 21 to 34 per minute. These signals were somewhat reminiscent of the sounds of a ship's siren, heard in the air filled with clicking sounds.
According to Bild, many "fans" of the radio station, and over the years of its existence, radio amateurs from almost all over the world showed interest in it, were intrigued by the "inexplicable violations" of the station's monotonous radio signal. For example, on July 5, 2010, the signal of the radio station completely disappeared from the air, and the next day it appeared again. On September 2, 2010, the Buzzbox signal disappeared again, now for several days, and after the resumption of broadcasting began it with an excerpt from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake. As the German journalist Ingrid Ragard noted, the Russian "buzzer" broadcasts 23 hours and 10 minutes a day. The station pauses daily from 07:00 to 07:50 in the morning. In this case, usually a monotonous buzzing noise sounds 25 times per minute. Radio amateurs who are interested in the station note that more than the same recording is being played, since you can often hear snatches of conversations in Russian and other "ordinary office noises" in the background.
The buzzing noise is often interrupted by the reading of certain signals, which are a set of letters and numbers. For example, on January 24, 2001 at 17:25 the following information was transmitted - 07 526 SLIDING 18 47 27 96. The meaning of such messages, of course, remains incomprehensible to ordinary people. At the same time, journalists, especially Western ones, are ready to come up with many explanations for them. So, Bild believes that it is possible these are messages for Russian spies who are abroad. Also, constant background noise can play another role, for example, as an element of the Perimeter system, also called the “Dead Hand”. This system, created during the Cold War, provides for the possibility of an automatic retaliatory nuclear strike in the event of an attack on Russia. The German journalist suggested that at the moment when the broadcasting of the station ceases, the mechanism for delivering a nuclear retaliatory strike will be activated, the notorious "red button" will be pressed. And according to the version of lovers of conspiracy theories or conspiracy theories, the radio station is used for "brainwashing the citizens of Russia" or "establishing contact with representatives of extraterrestrial civilizations." At the same time, the author of the article Bild emphasized that over the past decades, many people have tried to decipher alphanumeric messages transmitted by the buzzer, but no one succeeded.
The fact that no one was able to decipher the signal is easy to explain. The Russian military is transmitting through the communication and warning system in the format of code words (MONOLITHS), monoliths are just words that are constantly changing. Moreover, the same monolith at different times can have completely different meanings. MONOLITH can be just a code word on an envelope lying in the safe of the commander of one or another unit.
It is worth noting that the radio station, which the Western media, and some Russian ones, often like to make the hero of various "high-profile" articles, is well known and studied by radio amateurs. Plots about her were aired on both the Rossiya channel and the Russia Today channel. A large number of sites around the world are dedicated to it, and there is a separate article on Wikipedia on the station. This radio station is definitely not classified as a secret.
UVB-76 is a short-wave radio station that broadcasts at a frequency of 4625 kHz, it transmits signals to recipients with the call sign MJB (formerly UVB-76), according to the classification of the ENIGMA2000 Internet resource, the station was assigned the number S28. The purpose of the station, according to information in "Wikipedia", is banally simple - it is an alert station (reserved for communication in case of cataclysms and events within the framework of Civil Defense), in peacetime the station is used as a connection for Russian military enlistment offices. Among radio amateurs all over the world it is known as "the buzzer" (English The Buzzer). In normal operation, the station broadcasts the channel marker in the form of repetitive buzzing sounds. For the period of transmission of various radio messages, the marker is disabled. The radiograms (signals) themselves are transmitted using the phonetic alphabet and are so-called "monoliths" (control signals of the Russian army). The station has been on air since at least the early 1980s. Until September 2010, when the reform of the system of military districts was carried out in Russia, the station transmitted voice radiograms to recipients with the call sign UZB-76 (the supposed circular call sign of the Moscow Military District). Since September 2010, the new callsign MJB (circular callsign of the Western Military District) has been used.
