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This morning UVB-76 The Buzzer went off the air at about 4:00UTC Instead is now being broadcast morse code question mark (. . - - . .) over and over again, and sporadically the familiar buzzer re-appears. Also strange is that it is also broadcasting a short clip of Dance of the Little Swans from Swan Lake intermittently. This is confirmed to be broadcast from UVB-76 and is not interference from another broadcast. Also heard has been activity over the microphone. I have personally observed the sound of male voices speaking Russian and it sounds like they are moving furniture. Anyone can recognize the sound of wooden table legs sliding across a hard floor. Other general activity has been monitored today. It can be speculated that the station is undergoing maintenance or replacement of some kind. It is apparent that there has been changes made to the broadcast by a real person in the control room indicative of testing and maintenance. Why they're playing a clip from Swan Lake is anybody's guess, but it's certainly a quaint style that is all but absent from numbers stations today. Honestly I think the last eccentrically styled numbers station was The Swedish Rhapsody, which also became more bland in its later years of usage. You know I'm not sure if UVB-76 really qualifies as a numbers station but it's certainly an abnormal station. Do inform me if discussion of it doesn't really belong here. Anyway that's the news. After a 28 year broadcast with no known interruptions, The Buzzer is off the air and it cannot be certain whether or not it will return. Here is a link to a blog I have been reading about the subject, it's very active right now: http://uvb-76.blogspot.com/ ______________________________________________________________ Spooks mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
