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The Kopf joins the priyom.org team!

05 October 2011

Hi folks on Priyom Here is the JochenKopf, also known as "Kopf" of the German numbers hobbyist branche. For a few days I am at last on Priyom. Yesterday I tried successfully to connect on freenode - and all Priyomers said "Hello", as Webweasel told me. Unfortunately I have a limitted access to Priyom, because I am blind, so I can't write blog posts because of the graphical based website CMS. But hopefully the system will be changed, so that I can write blog posts myself to you in nearest f...

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Wired magazine and database goes live!

29 September 2011

Once again, I should be writing lots of small blog posts instead of big ones but oh well. Three big things have happened for us recently, the long awaited article about UVB-76 has been released in this months Wired Magazine, Laid has created a radio stream that follows our station schedule and we have finally got our database up and running! So first the UVB-76 article in October 2011's issue of Wired Magazine. Around late September 2010 before priyom.org was founded our community was star...

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x06 is about new callsigns for UVB-76/The buzzer

19 September 2011

Well once again the shortwave bands spring these little suprises on us. X06 seems to be sending its test signal x06c and the odditiy x06b with catches almost every day since last thursday. That morning was particulary odd when we heard a sequence of x06 over 23 frequencies lasting no more than 30 seconds at a time over ten minutes. Quite an odd occurance indeed. We also have new callsigns from UVB-76/The buzzer: C38M/Ц38M and  CLIM/ЦЛИМ There have been a series of early morning mess...

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S28/UVB-76/UZB-76/MDZhB Oddity last night

10 September 2011

Always fun when we have a buzzer oddity. Last night the buzzer went quiet about 2am, but a quiet buzzer could be heard. It faded over the next hour and a series of clicks were heard for about 40 minutes. At roughly 03:10 am the buzzer returned, but sounded like it was being tuned down from a higher frequency. Listening to the following sample while viewing this spectrogram shows what I mean. S28-4625USB-20110910-0310z-odd-ByWebweasel   Well, if we had an IQ file recording we could...

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Libyan Psyops

09 September 2011

Hi, First blog post from me. Through out the Libyan conflict we have been hearing Psyops broadcasts by NATO "Command Solo" Lockheed EC-130 aircraft . It seems that even now, after the fall of Tripoli NATO are still broadcasting their Psyops Messages to the Libyan population. A good catch by Danix111 on the IRC today was of one of these Psyops broadcast on 10404khz. again like previous Libyan Psyops messages it is broadcast in English and Arabic. The broadcast consisted of two repeated mess...

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The Reith Lectures 2011: Securing Freedom

06 September 2011

Hey Shortwave fans In the UK radio 4 produce a series of yearly lectures know as the Reith lectures. Presented by leaders of their field, each year chooses a certain relevant topic for debate. This years set is called "Securing Freedom 2011" and is a series of lectures presented by the Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu and former Director-General of MI5 Baroness Manningham-Buller. I have just listened to the third of the five lectures and had to share them with you, as they are ra...

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Very interesting show about Number stations

04 September 2011

Hey guys! Just came across this very interesting old radio broadcast by the BBC on BBC radio 4. Not sure on the date of it, but liconshire poacher was active at the time. Anyways heres the download link: Tracking the Lincolnshire PoacherBBC RADIO 4 2005-04-23 0930 Enjoy guys! <Webweasel edit> This is a great listen and I recommend it to all. It features Simon Mason whos site you should check out if your not already familiar with it. A fantastic read. </Webweasel edit>

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UVB-76... one year later...

19 August 2011

Hello guys, this is my first blog post! August 23, 2011 is the 1st anniversary of NAIMINA message and the day when UVB-76 gained a "fanclub". So we decided the UVB-76 and number stations podcast episode 9 will be double episode. First part will be anniversary episode, second one will be normal - talking about our logs etc. Tonight we'll go live at 18:30 and start recording the podcast at 19:00 UTC. It will be streamed over Webweasel's SDR feed. A lot has changed during this year! UVB...

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Progress!

14 August 2011

Yes thats right SW fans! We actually have news of some progress! OMG! Ok well ill start from the begining... Now that horrorcat has got the PriyomAPI running we now can have access to call information from a database! But thats not all! We have actually got XSLT files that turn that database garbage info into a useable table with info presented in a nice looking way! (sorry for all the !'s by the way, im just epicly excited about this :P ) After a full day of me (Bowen) and webweasel tryi...

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Photos from Neelovo's transmitter (NOT UZB-76 SITE)

01 August 2011

Hello SW fans! Now we have photos from Neelovo (Pskovskaya oblast'), which CAN'T be the transmitter site of UZB-76. Why? Read at the bottom of the blog post. Many thanks for photos to Andrey. And remember, you didn't see it ;) UPD. Well. Neelovo isn't Buzzy's house judging by antenna, it was confirmed by three men already. Antenna doesn't suit for such frequency. We're on wrong way, gentlemen! :)

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