Phone Calls & The Mystery Voices Behind The Buzzer Revealed - UVB-76

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[Chiberia]

the Swan Lake incident is a really interesting point of history (and may be worth a video onto its own). on USSR state TV, Swan Lake was always played as the "filler" show when serious things were going down. for instance, the piece was aired while they were filling the new leader after the death of Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev, then for Cherneko, then Adropov. USSR citizens began to understand that Swan Lake meant something big was going down.

So you can imagine their surprise on August 19, 1991, as tanks and troops rolled into Moscow, that Soviet state television was playing Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake on loop. It makes me wonder what was happening that date in 2010.

[bingbong]

The sound of the Buzzer sliding into castors-up mode is pure class.

[jetlaw_]

We can never really get enough of the Buzzer, so keep 'em coming, Lewis!

[Bones-Radio]

I listen to the Buzzer often and never hear anything besides jamming and music. Very interesting to hear other recordings. Thanks for the history and all these unknowns about the Buzzer

[CrazyOregonBeaver]

I remember something in the seventies that we called the woodpecker. It sounded like a woodpecker and I think it was on the forty meter band but jumped around. Thank you for the video Lewis. 👍

[unixman]

Worth a listen at this very moment - intermittent start stop buzzing, music, apparent messages.

[BrokenSignal]

"mostly by me" 🤣 Great video!

[Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

Lewis: Your _Buzzer_ vids are ALWAYS interesting...👍

[itechflagstaff]

Thank you! Keep up the great work. 👍👍👍👍👍👍😊😊

[christophercullin]

I remember the buzzer coming in on my crystal set i made from a toilet tube and cats whisker diode back in the 1980s still listening today on 4.625.000khz

[TheRisenPeopleEire]

Most underrated channel on Youtube!!! I am surprised you haven't way more people subbed man only a matter of time keep it up !!

[someonebald]

Maybe the Mic Failure was a tribute to Norman Collier?

[anthonyfranz]

Outstanding and detailed video, thanks!

[Maxox]

sometimes I think the issues they have had with people speaking on an open mic... maybe its literally a live mic in a room and they just play a physical buzzer into the mic

[wisteela]

I love that you are covering all this, and in so much detail.

[bielanski]

those are some very handsome signal operators, Lewis :)

[GoldenPickaxe]

Bro the iPhone timer going off made the buzzer so much less scary thank you for that

[kaitlyn__L]

I wonder if there were really that many more open mic incidents lately, or if worldwide listeners have just exploded to catch them all.

Certainly in the 90s it seemed they were quite careful about turning the voice mic on, and it seemed separate from the mic near the buzzer machine. I know some enthusiasts found the purported old site, during the transition from UZB, abandoned but with signs of the right kind of gear and a tiny room the buzzer could’ve been in.

Makes me wonder if wherever it’s set up now doesn’t have separate rooms for the operator and buzzer anymore like the maybe-original seemed to. If so, that must be torture to sit next to! But you’d think they’d be concerned about potential security breaches if listeners can hear the operator receiving a phone call…

[ardeladimwit]

original-1990 Buzzer has definite Sputnik overtones

[SigEpBlue]

I've never heard UVB76 "moo" like that before.