Wired Magazine carries a long article about the msterious Russian radio station UVB-76 nicknamed “The Buzzer” on 4625 kHz, which has been around for at least 30 years, but has recently been behaving very strangely.
Inside the Russian short wave radio enigma
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on Sep 29th, 2011 at 11:26
Well, recently was in last year, when the breaks had been discussed in “hobby monitoring circles”, to use the term coined by a well known professional organization…
Frankly, I’m generally less than enthusiastic about this US reporting style that emphasizes emotions instead of plain facts, of which no new ones are being offered here. And the key point that “the buzzer has arrived in the Internet era” is almost absurd, beyond pointing out that owning an ordinary shortwave portable (that’s all that is needed to hear this signal in Europe at night, the radio just needs to be tunable to 4625 kHz) is almost exotic now.
Here are the key facts in the dryest possible format. This is a copy of a Geocities page that has been deleted like almost all other ones, difficult to find, which may explain why still speculations circulate about this matter that ceased to be a mystery about a decade ago:
http://sites.google.com/site/stationuvb76/january-2009
By the way, the Povarovo transmitters have already been used for broadcasting, too. Radio Zvezda, the station of the Russian forces, went out there on 990 kHz until they replaced mediumwave for Moscow area by 95.6 MHz.