{"id":7051,"date":"2010-06-07T04:12:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T18:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2010\/06\/07\/oh-no-uvb-76-goes-off-the-air-duck-and-cover\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T22:09:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T12:09:36","slug":"oh-no-uvb-76-goes-off-the-air-duck-and-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2010\/06\/07\/oh-no-uvb-76-goes-off-the-air-duck-and-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"OH NO! UVB-76 Goes Off the Air!  Duck and Cover!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Wikipedia:<\/p>\n<p><b>UVB-76<\/b> is the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Callsign\" title=\"Callsign\" class=\"mw-redirect\">callsign<\/a> of a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shortwave\" title=\"Shortwave\">shortwave<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Radio_station\" title=\"Radio station\" class=\"mw-redirect\">radio station<\/a> that usually broadcasts on the frequency 4625 kHz (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amplitude_modulation\" title=\"Amplitude modulation\">AM<\/a> full carrier). It&#8217;s known among <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shortwave_listening\" title=\"Shortwave listening\">radio listeners<\/a> by the nickname <b>The Buzzer<\/b>. It features a short, monotonous <span class=\"unicode\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:UVB-76.ogg\" title=\"About this sound\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"About this sound\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/11px-Loudspeaker.svg_.png\" width=\"11\" height=\"11\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/2\/26\/UVB-76.ogg\" class=\"internal\" title=\"UVB-76.ogg\">buzz tone<\/a> <small class=\"metadata audiolinkinfo\" style=\"cursor: help;\">(<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Media_help\" title=\"Wikipedia:Media help\"><span style=\"cursor: help;\">help<\/span><\/a>\u00b7<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:UVB-76.ogg\" title=\"File:UVB-76.ogg\"><span style=\"cursor: help;\">info<\/span><\/a>)<\/small><\/span>, repeating at a rate of approximately 25 tones per minute, for 24 hours per day. The station has been observed since around 1982.<sup id=\"cite_ref-oddities_0-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UVB-76#cite_note-oddities-0\"><span>[<\/span>1<span>]<\/span><\/a><\/sup> On rare occasions, the buzzer signal is interrupted and a voice transmission in Russian takes place. Only three to four such events have been noted. Despite much speculation, the actual purpose of this station remains unknown. On <span class=\"mw-formatted-date\" title=\"2010-06-05\"><span class=\"mw-formatted-date\" title=\"06-05\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/June_5\" title=\"June 5\">June 5<\/a><\/span>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2010\" title=\"2010\">2010<\/a><\/span>, UVB-76 stopped transmission suddenly, the first time there is no signal received from UVB-76 since 1982. <sup id=\"cite_ref-1\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UVB-76#cite_note-1\"><span>[<\/span>2<span>]<\/span><\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UVB-76\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UVB-76<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Wikipedia: UVB-76 is the callsign of a shortwave radio station that usually broadcasts on the frequency 4625 kHz (AM full carrier). It&#8217;s known among radio listeners by the nickname The Buzzer. It features a short, monotonous buzz tone (help\u00b7info), repeating at a rate of approximately 25 tones per minute, for 24 hours per day. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2010\/06\/07\/oh-no-uvb-76-goes-off-the-air-duck-and-cover\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;OH NO! UVB-76 Goes Off the Air!  Duck and Cover!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beacon","category-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7053,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7051\/revisions\/7053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}