{"id":51916,"date":"2022-02-17T07:54:37","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T11:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=51916"},"modified":"2022-02-17T07:54:37","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T11:54:37","slug":"bbc-newshour-reports-jamming-of-uvb-76-the-buzzer-with-music-and-digital-imagery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/bbc-newshour-reports-jamming-of-uvb-76-the-buzzer-with-music-and-digital-imagery\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Newshour Reports Jamming of UVB-76 (The Buzzer) With Music and Digital Imagery"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Mark, who writes:<\/p>\n

Thomas,<\/strong><\/p>\n

The morning (EST) edition of BBC Newshour on Wednesday presented a five-minute report on the jamming of Russian shortwave mystery station UVB-76 (The Buzzer) with music and digital imagery.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Newshour – Uncertainty over Russian ‘de-escalation’ near Ukraine – BBC Sounds<\/strong><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/w172xv5lss6rtdm<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Report begins at 37:26<\/strong><\/p>\n

Also at:<\/strong><\/p>\n

BBC World Service – Newshour – Available now<\/strong><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p002vsnk\/episodes\/player<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sincerely,<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mark<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thank you for the tip, Mark. Impressive that this bit of shortwave news would be included in a Newshour report. They did a fantastic job including some audio clips from the Conet Project and authentic UVB-76 audio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Mark, who writes: Thomas, The morning (EST) edition of BBC Newshour on Wednesday presented a five-minute report on the jamming of Russian shortwave mystery station UVB-76 (The Buzzer) with music and digital imagery. Newshour – Uncertainty over Russian ‘de-escalation’ near Ukraine – BBC Sounds https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/w172xv5lss6rtdm Report begins at 37:26 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,172,297,43],"tags":[9580,4088,4092,1310,614,9672,9671],"class_list":["post-51916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-numbers-stations","category-pirate-radio","category-shortwave-radio","tag-bbc-newshour","tag-numbers-stations","tag-pirate-radio","tag-shortwave-pirates","tag-uvb-76","tag-uvb-76-interference","tag-uvb-76-pirates"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-dvm","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15406,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/uvb-76-the-buzzer-surfaces-on-6998-khz\/","url_meta":{"origin":51916,"position":0},"title":"UVB-76: The Buzzer surfaces on 6,998 kHz","author":"Thomas","date":"November 3, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"My buddy,\u00a0Andrea Borgnino, recently heard UVB-76 (The Buzzer) on 6,998 kHz with his Elecraft K3 in Italy. 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Of course, during the day, I couldn't hear\u00a0\u00a0the signal from my home in North America. I could, however, easily hear the signal via the University Twente Web SDR\u00a0in the Netherlands. 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