I Received The Strangest Russian Shortwave Signals

I’ve been closely monitoring the shortwave bands this past couple of weeks for the seemingly endless occurrences of interesting signals emanating from the Russian Federation.

There’s been jamming, music, propaganda and all sorts of unusual signals out there lately so let me give you a run down of October’s shortwave oddities.

The buzzer has been the main target of jamming which you can find out more about here:

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[DanteHaroun]

This might be the best channel on youtube jfc

[lydiavisser]

The letters written starting at 5:25 are: закончилась. But here they are displayed in reverse order and upside down, a bit confusing to non-russian readers. The word simply means: ended, or stopped. Cheers.

[jakebrodskype]

I remember as a teen listening to "This Transmission is for Testing Purposes Only from the Moscow Radiotelephone Station..." and then they'd cite a book, page and block and start reading five letter groups. Yeah, we all knew quite well what it was. Rumor has it that on Christmas Eve they added an extra "and Greetings to our friends in the CIA." to the broadcast.

[BetterYet]

Years ago when citizen band radios were popular, my friend's house unit developed a similar buzzing sound. It turned out that the neighbor's farm electric fence unit was not properly grounded and caused a feedback through the whole neighborhood.

[Tomteeejay]

The Morse code is BT

It is Russian Air Defence Morse code broadcast on 4628 Kilohertz CW. It is seasonal activity with this air defence system Morse broadcast and the frequency during Autumn radio period. It has ben transmitting on 4628 Kilohertz CW for decades and goes back to Soviet times. It is a time stamp 0018 is the time. 8 is the air defence district identifier. It will transmit the time stamp every minute. Sometimes it will stream live or practice air defence grid. Again it is an old Soviet system. It is known as M21 by radio enthusiasts.

[volo]

The letters at 5:25 - 6:20 are sent backwards (last letters go earlier) and upside down. The message says "ХАЛЯВА КОНЧИЛАСЬ", which is literally translated from russian as "The freebie is over", but the contextual meaning is usually akin to "No more Mr. Nice Guy".

[geezerdiamond]

The music playing over the buzzer at 2:16 is “Одиночество” by Ivan Karpov, which translates as “Loneliness”

[raymondmartin]

As an amateur radio operator of over
60 years, the biggest annoyance was
the Russian Woodpecker when it was
around our frequencies 😮

[DMC]

6:10 the letters read: "кончилась" (upper case and upside down) which means "finished".
8:20 that's clearly ukrainian with hard cursing.

[-Tris-]

That was the Ukrainian propaganda channel there in the end. I have heard this voice so often now.
There was an evening where you could hear a woman crying and talking, and some guys laughing and talking. After that, background voices got more and louder. Music was playing "Bairaktar", a Ukrainian "we will rock you" version and more. People were laughing and singing in the background. Sounded like an open mic for hours. Still got a recording.

[Toskin]

Ok, russian buzzer being trolled by elevator music is somehow very funny.

[RowanHawkins]

The thing about jamming is that it doesnt matter how poorly the blocked signal is heard elsewhere. Jamming is to prevent a signal from being heard in a particular place
near the jammer not to obliterate the signal from the airwaves.

Think about jamming as control bubble where the jammers signal is stronger than the blocked signal. That is the purpose of the technique. Where @ringwaymanchester is listening from is in the overalap of the bubbles so he hears both without one overpowering the other.

[bobsoldrecords]

One buzzer jammer was actually on the uvb7600 live page. We'd send him song requests and there they were. Made for a very fun evening

[j.dietrich]

I'd like to see a transmitter that could jam the buzzer. I wouldn't want to stand near it though.

[golf-n-guns]

Manipulating transmissions to "draw" characters on the waterfall is so clever!

[KekmanForTheRestOfTheWorld]

the pre recorded stuff on 7103 is most likely coming from ukraine. sometimes they broadcast in different languages and i once caught them offending putin in german. not sure if its randomly generated sometimes it sounds as if someone was actually triggering samples on a keyboard

[michaelhorne]

There is something intangibly special about that combination of dreamy, far off music, and Saturn rising through the frame, that made me feel feels I did not even know I was calibrated to receive. Thank you.

[howl]

Managed to really clearly receive one of the propaganda channels a couple of days ago at night.
It was quite creepy, especially because it was really dark outside and i was standing in the middle of a field with my pocket radio. I am in Germany and don't have the equipment to listen to the short wave bands well most of the time.
Amazing how good the propagation is getting, now that the winter is slowly approaching.

[bobuilt]

Has Techmoan bought a short wave transmitter? I could swear that was his channel music trolling the buzzer.

[hummadruz]

I haven't got a Scooby what's going on but I'm fascinated. Much of that sounded better than Roger Waters rehash of The Dark Side of the Moon.
As an aside at 3:00 I wept when I first saw Saturn through a telescope in my back yard. That, and stuff on this channel, makes me appreciate how little and insignificant we are. No bad thing. Keep on listening Lewis - loving it!