[HCDX] Peculiar Russian shortwave numbers station is an unlikely internet star

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Peculiar Russian shortwave numbers station is an unlikely internet star
Posted on October 12, 2011 by Paul Riismandel
http://www.radiosurvivor.com/2011/10/12/peculiar-russian-shortwave-numbers-station-is-an-
unlikely-internet-star/


Page from the UVB-76 station log dated 2005.

Anyone who has spent some quality time scanning the shortwave radio bands has likely 
come upon what are known as numbers stations. To the uninitiated the stations air what the 
name describes, someone reading of a sequence of numbers. They can be in any language, 
but most commonly are in English, Spanish or Russian. They are believed to transmit secret 
coded messages to agents overseas, but nobody really knows for sure what they´re purpose 
is.

The Russian shortwave station UVB-76 is a peculiar example of a numbers station, mostly 
because it is known to air a wide variety of noises and sounds besides numbers. Thanks to 
an Estonian blogger (full disclosure: I´m half Estonian) the Russian station has become 
somewhat of an internet sensation. Or at least more of a sensation than most shortwave 
stations that aren´t streamed on the internet.

The October issue of Wired magazine features an article on the station and the mystery 
surrounding it, as well as an interview with blogger and tech entrepreneur Andrus Aaslaid 
who decided to start streaming the station.

I can really identify with Aaslaid when he tells Wired,

    "I´ve spent nights just randomly browsing and sometimes getting really, really drunk," 
Aaslaid says. (His drink of choice is Aberlour A´bunadh, a single-malt Scotch.) "In the era of 
the Internet and corporations, people´s lives are so well planned and predictable," he says. 
"In some ways, UVB-76 represents the good kind of unpredictability and mystery." ...

    "Imagine somebody with a Morse key or a reel-to-reel tape deck in the middle of the 
Namibia desert, running a shortwave transmitter off a diesel generator and sending music or 
messages toward the ionosphere. In the middle of the night, it does not get any more spiritual 
than that."

Reading that makes me want to stay up late with the lights off, wearing headphones, 
scanning the shortwave dial.

Damn, I´ve got work in the morning.

More on point, on Tuesday Aaslaid posted that supposed pages from a logbook used at the 
station in 2005 have surfaced in a Russian radio online forum. It even includes a mention of 
the station´s guard dog, noted to be on duty at 18:30 on October 4.
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