Radio amateurs from all over the world are wondering what is hidden behind the signals transmitted by the mysterious radio station since the 1970s - intelligence negotiations or military orders.
The signal source is presumably located near St. Petersburg in a swamp area. Anyone can listen to the mysterious wave broadcasting from a frequency of 4625 kHz. However, most of the time, white noise sounds on the air, interrupted by words in Russian such as "agronomist" or "inflatable lifeboat".
On YouTube you can find many recordings of various moments of broadcasting of the radio station, which was nicknamed "Buzzbox", for example, this one with a strange sound.
But the radio station didn't always broadcast the buzz. According to radio listeners, earlier the broadcast was filled with a series of tones, occasionally interrupted by numbers or Russian names - Anna, Nikolai, Ivan, Tatiana, Roman. The first voice broadcast, as fans of "Zhuzhzhalka" say, took place in 1997 and sounded like this: "I am UVB-76, I am UVB-76. 180 08 BROMAL 74 27 99 14. Boris, Roman, Olga, Mikhail, Anna, Larisa. 7 4 2 7 9 9 1 4 ".
The mysterious radio station even has a kind of fan-clubs on social networks, where people constantly follow the air.
There are many different theories about the purpose of radio waves. The most common of these is that the station was created for military purposes during the Cold War. The Buzzbox uses short wavelengths, which allows its signal to travel over vast distances practically around the world. Thus, the frequency may well be used for the transmission of classified intelligence data and the coordination of submarines.
There is an even more frightening assumption related to nuclear weapons. For example, some suggest that the radio wave is a kind of guarantor of a retaliatory strike in the event of an attack on Russia. If all other communication lines are damaged and there is no one to give the order for a nuclear attack, then the cessation of the broadcast of the "Buzzbox" will become an automatic signal to use nuclear weapons.
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It is also believed that the radio station is not broadcasting anything secret now. For example, encryption expert David Stapples expresses his doubts. “If the messages were encrypted, then this could be understood by the signal. But you can't hear anything like that on this wave,”he explained.
From this statement it follows that, perhaps, at the moment, nothing special is happening on the radio wave. Constant noise is broadcast so that no one occupies the frequency. At the right moment, the hissing will stop, and some kind of military command will be given.
Radio amateur Maris Goldmanis, who regularly listens to Zhuzhzhalka, claims that the Russians had already tested such an emergency use of the wave several years ago. “In 2013, they sent a special message“ORDER 135”, perhaps this is a command of full combat readiness,” he said.
Interestingly, "Buzzbox" is not the only mysterious radio station, on the Internet you can find recordings of the broadcast "Squeaky" or "Squeaky Wheel". Most of these radio stations can only pick up noise, in contrast to the Lincolnshire Poacher wave, where at the beginning of each hour a piece of an English folk song was played 12 times. After that, a synthesized female voice read combinations of five numbers. The radio station existed from the 70s to 2008, and no one knew why it was needed. Some suspected the wave was being used by British intelligence.