{"id":10526,"date":"2014-08-14T08:04:04","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T12:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=10526"},"modified":"2014-08-14T08:04:04","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T12:04:04","slug":"cold-war-echo-rt-investigates-uvb-76","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/cold-war-echo-rt-investigates-uvb-76\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold War Echo: RT investigates UVB-76"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"UVB-76-via-RT\"<\/a>(Source: Russia Today via YouTube<\/a>)<\/p>\n

“From a lonely rusted tower in a forest north of Moscow, a mysterious shortwave radio station transmitted day and night. For at least the decade leading up to 1992, it broadcast almost nothing but beeps; after that, it switched to buzzes, generally between 21 and 34 per minute, each lasting roughly a second\u2014a nasally foghorn blaring through a crackly ether.<\/p>\n

The signal was said to emanate from the grounds of a voyenni gorodok (mini military city) near the village of Povarovo, and very rarely, perhaps once every few weeks, the monotony was broken by a male voice reciting brief sequences of numbers and words, often strings of Russian names: “Anna, Nikolai, Ivan, Tatyana, Roman.” But the balance of the airtime was filled by a steady, almost maddening, series of inexplicable tones.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click here to watch the video on YouTube<\/a>, or view via the embedded player below:
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