Russian Radio Signal UVB-76 has stopped transmitting.. UH-OH

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread579556/pg1 ^ | 5-6-2010 | Abovetopsecret.com

[LuigiBonnafini]

The mysterious russian shortwave radio "UWB-76", also known as "The Buzzer"... ...just stopped transmission. This is huge, considering there has been almost NO interruption since 1982. It even survived the cold war. This is.............. odd..................

[mware]

Damn I remember my dad putting tubes in our television and radios.

He was a forward artillary observer during WW2 and knew the insides and outsides of just about any radio we ever had.

[VeniVidiVici]

LOL! No, not quite. The Turboencabulator is only needed if the groundpoise cannot sync-up correctly with the magnatic declination of that particular location.

The Turboencabulator takes the ouput from the goniometer amplifies it so that:

Ap = 10 log10(Ps/Pd)

and then attenuates it so that the R-390 can correctly interpret the analog-digital-analog loopback circuitry.

It’s a pain in the ass when you’re being fired at.

[TheOldLady]

Okay. Never mind. :-)

[TheOldLady]

[Constitution Day]

I' m на мексиканском радио. I' m на мексиканце, whoa-Oh, радио. I' m на мексиканском радио. I' m на мексиканце, whoa-Oh, радио Рейдио радио… Чего он говорит?

No comprende. It's a riddle! ;)

[Erasmus]

Vy cool DF set. W/R-390, no less.

My EE department built the first Wullenweber in the Americas, out of a dismantled installation from Germany.

I never visited the array (long since torn down), but I did see a goniometer in our machine shop. As I recall, it was a cube about 2 feet on an edge, with a big knob and compass rose on the top, and a jillion coax connectors around the sides.

The EE department got to maintain the array and to use it for various purposes; but when the Navy came in to use it, they kicked all the EE guys out. Not enough clearance, I guess.

[flyover]

A friend and I were trying to figure out which site you have in the picture. You can look at the present status of all the flr-9’s at this location.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/download.php?Number=113991&t=k&om=1

[VeniVidiVici]

http://bbs.keyhole.com

LOL! Now THAT is funny!

Not sure what site it could be from. Elmendorf? Augsburg many years ago? Maybe it's a very good artist rendering.

[VeniVidiVici]

Oh hey! Thanks for the link itself. Very cool!

[VeniVidiVici]

Radio radio... Radio radio... Radio radio... I'm on a mexican radio. I'm on a Mexican, whoa-Oh, radio I'm on a mexican radio. I'm on a Mexican, whoa-Oh, radio Radio radio... What does he say ?

Mexican Radio lyrics

Did an active station really broadcast this or are you yanking our chain, Slim? Because, ya, there really was some hilarious stuff that went on. :-)

[Constitution Day]

I knew what Slim was saying. Trust me, he’s yankin’ yer chain. ;)

[GonzoGOP]

Just let me state for the record that it IS NOT my fault.

Of course not. It is Bush's fault. Everything is Bush's fault. Obama said so.

[VeniVidiVici]

I figured as much. :-)

[Scythian]

The yellow bird is on the credenza, I repeat, the yellow bird is on the credenza ...

[Tijeras_Slim]

Trust me, he’s yankin’ yer chain.

Who me?

[VeniVidiVici]

Vy cool DF set. W/R-390, no less.

I want to say I was still using R-390s at least till the mid-80s. Heck, you can probably find them in use today in some gov't backwater.

And I think we even had to adjust that goniometer for the AN/TRD-4 when setting up the antenna array. Long time now though :-)