The ghostly radio station that no one claims to run

BBC ^ | 2 Aug, 2017 | Zaria Gorvett

[Noumenon]

Haven’t had my ham rig up for a while. Looking to get back to it next Spring. Meanwhile, I picked up a functional Zenith Trans-Oceanic Wave Magnet radio at a local thrift store for $100. Works surprisingly well, but it could use a tune up I think. Old school. All vacuum tube and those big tunable IF cans.

[Noumenon]

“The blue pen of my aunt is in the fried potatoes.”

[Beowulf9]

My grandfather had a ham radio and when I was 12 or so I would turn the dial around and sometimes get that numbers girl.

I kinda surmised it was something clandestine and liked the mystery of those stations so far away. I even liked the poor broadcast crackles, made it all the more mysterious.

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

So, if you listen to 4625 kHz, are you colluding with the Russians?

[factoryrat]

Bkmk.

[kalee]

For later

[Jane Long]

LOLOLOL!!!

You win the internets, today ;-)

[Jane Long]

Maybe it's this guy....

[Trillian]

That’s the very station I listened to for years that made me the Russian bot I am today.

[Fresh Wind]

I heard Brother Stair is trying to buy time on UVB-76.

[mad_as_he$$]

One of the local HAM’s that has code breaking experience is still trying to decipher that message. He is certain it is important but if it is a one time cypher or a book cypher he is not optimistic it can be cracked. Currently he has his servers working on book cyphers.

[husky ed]

The farm has full moon at dawn

Churchill is in the valley

Ed

[central_va]

It translate to “Yo momma, I had her.”

[SkyDancer]

Well it could be a one-off system where you’d head towards it and then go off on a different heading; like if you head towards it on say 260 and go off on 090, something like that.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, for the last three-and-a-half decades, it’s been broadcasting a dull, monotonous tone.

The lone remaining Air America affiliate.

[freebird5850]

The woodpecker is no more. It is located near Chernobyl. It was an over the horizon radar station operating around 28kHz.

[ichabod1]

That’s ok, at least it was an original story and not another remake of something else. That will be next, the LOST Reboot.

[ichabod1]

“Le plume bleu de ma tante sont dans ces pommes frites”

[Buckeye McFrog]

Baby, if you've ever wondered
Wondered what ever became of me
I'm living on the air in Mother Russia
St. Petersburg, MDZhB
I'm at MDZhB in Mother Russia...

[Jonah Hex]

In America, you play radio. In Russia, radio plays you.

In America Chuck Norris rules, In Russia, Chuck Norris still rules.