Mysterious Radio Station UVB-76 Goes Offline 336
leathered writes "Tinfoil hatters around the world are abuzz that UVB-76, the Russian shortwave radio station that has been broadcasting its monotonous tone almost uninterrupted since 1982, has suddenly gone offline. Of course no one knows what the significance of this is, but best brush up on your drills just in case."
It's back up (Score:5, Informative)
Re:It's back up (Score:3, Informative)
My fat fingers, also it's gone again.
Stupid IU!
Re:ID4 (Score:3, Informative)
Transmission at Outpost 79 [youtube.com]
Re:The reason (Score:2, Informative)
No satellite imagery? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:It's no mystery (Score:5, Informative)
Chances are, it's a power failure. The area reportedly had a significant storm yesterday. It's possible that the power failed and that they didn't have enough fuel or battery capacity or whatever to keep it running during an extended outage. That would also neatly explain why it reportedly came back and has reportedly died again.
Re:No satellite imagery? (Score:3, Informative)
it's missing on Google Maps right now... that's actually pretty interesting. I'm not really the conspiracy type but definitely interesting.
Bing has aerial photography that isn't really helpful..
http://www.bing.com/maps/default.aspx?v=2&cp=56.082778~37.089444&style=h&lvl=15&sp=Point.56.082778_37.089444_UVB-76___
More sources at http://toolserver.org/~geohack/geohack.php?pagename=UVB-76¶ms=56_4_58_N_37_5_22_E_type:landmark_region:RU [toolserver.org]
Re:Article Quality. (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Article Quality. (Score:2, Informative)
Sounds a bit like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_Slow_As_Possible [wikipedia.org]
Basically, it is a short piece of music that is to be played as slow as possible. In the church where it is played, it is expected to last more then 600 years. Ironically, it started with a pause of 17 months.
Re:It's back up (Score:2, Informative)
One interesting fact about UVB-76 is that the signal is broadcast through a microphone. At times other noises or conversations can be heard in the background. This would tend to imply that the signal is for monitoring something that makes that noise.
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