russia's "doomsday radio" broadcasts mysterious message again
2024-09-26
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according to a report on the website of the russian newspaper "moscow komsomolets" on september 24, one of the most mysterious radio stations in the world, uvb-76 radio (commonly known as the "doomsday radio"), recently broadcast a new mysterious message containing only four russian words, two of which are "blizzard" and "happy", and the other two words are unclear. this immediately attracted the attention, concern and discussion of netizens. they recalled that the last time the radio station sent a strange message was on february 24, 2022, on the eve of the start of the special military operation, when it only broadcast a russian word of unknown meaning.
while anyone with a radio receiver can pick up the latest message, no one has so far been able to decipher it.
uvb-76, which first appeared in the 1970s, remains a mystery. it emits a distinctive buzzing or beeping sound that seems to be pre-recorded and repeats over and over again.
however, this is not the case. according to the komsomolskaya pravda, there seems to be a microphone in the radio station that is constantly recording the humming sound of a mechanical device in the room, such as the tone wheel used in a hammond organ. at a certain moment, someone will sit in front of the microphone, stop the tone wheel, and then start talking. on december 24, 1997, people heard the first such mysterious message, which contained a set of numbers and a russian word composed of all capital letters, and the meaning of the word was also unknown.
radio amateurs had earlier located uvb-76 in moscow oblast, and now there are rumors that the station is located somewhere in leningrad oblast.
others have suggested that the radio may be part of some kind of "dead hand" system. they speculate that in the event of a large-scale nuclear war, if no one is able to issue an order for a retaliatory strike, the radio will automatically initiate a missile launch. these missiles are hidden in secret silos in remote areas and can be launched without human intervention. they are currently dormant and their exact location is unknown. there are no people in the storage area of these missiles, only mechanical devices made during the soviet era. (compiled by zhao zhipeng)
source: reference news