Did Russia's Military Signal Just Respond To Us?

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[@alhamilton7261]

hilarious, i want to know how the drawinigs are done..... Can you explain Mr RM please?

[@RingwayManchester]

No, but there’s a lot of smart people here who can :)

[@truescotsman4103]

@@RingwayManchester for dumb people like us I describe it as "frequency manipulation". What's the technical name for that so I can research it?

[@aculleon2901]

This is probably some kind of IFFT (Inverse FFT). The waterfall diagramm takes the signals over time and plots them on the x axis. Color indindicating the received power of the signal. Inverse FFT does the same but in reverse. So pixels in and signal out. If you do this line after line you can paint those pictures over time. Hope this helps🙂

[@like_cabezon3810]

@@truescotsman4103 search for "spectrum painting" they can be produced with any audio card connected to the radio mic

[@m4rt_]

not sure what it is called, but I have seen and used websites that allow you to put images in sound files so you can see it on a spectrogram. so I would assume that they get a spectrogram of the sound file, and modify it to have the image, and then do the opposite calculation of the Fourier Transform or whatever else they did to get it so that you end up with the sounds.

[@genemys]

the singing during the 56k modem noises translates to "We don't have a modem" over and over

[@an0nport236]

so thats what that was...

[@jaymzx0]

Yes we have no modems

[@nutzeeer]

lol

[@Denis7947.]

Lol😂

[@Vtarngpb]

😂😂😂

[@NeemeVaino]

3:47 a modem ping sound, then in Russian "we don't have the modem" repeatedly

[@rambo1152]

Я Yes, we have nyet bananas!

[@juki6377]

@@rambo1152 thats what i heard

[@burkezillar]

Russian humour? I like it.

[@suprlite]

​@@rambo1152-bananas we have njet todayayayau 😂

[@gznymbrf1x973]

У нас нет модема / We don`t have the modem

[@janisvaskevics93]

Pirate was singing - we have no modem, no modem we have... right after modem handshake sound.

[@adammoss5284]

Connection closed by foreign host

[@luxle_aviation]

Sound like he's singing it to the tune of Njet Molotoff

[@douro20]

The same thing from 2022: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y2bPhJ2hnrOhqs0

[@TheRattyBiker]

This is fascinating! I'm still blown away by SSTV and essentially old modem tech - basically data via audio signals... However, manipulation of the frequencies to create an image on a waterfall display is just utterly an ingenious modern iteration of this tech!!! I *love* that one of the "buzzer" stations is essentially trolling you via the waves 😊😍😊 *That's Class!!!*

[@eddelarie8161]

Hmm, no. Its a pirate transmitting over the 'buzzer' as is clearly explained in the video. This is ongoing since 2014 btw/

[@robinwells8879]

I would take that as a significant compliment if I were you 🎉

[@TheRattyBiker]

@@robinwells8879 Me too! Seems the buzzer Troll are watching and appreciating too! - hey, even the Trolls on YT are also generating views / comments 😂 win win!

[@msmith2961]

Lol, even the Russians appreciate Lewis' choice of banging drum'n'bass 😂😂

[@RCAvhstape]

Congrats, RM, shortwave has become interesting once again, and you are one of the main reasons!

[@Nethanieal]

After watching this video , I went over to WebSDR in POLAND and saw for myself . Recorded some of it , right now you can hardly hear the buzzer and there is some music playing over it .

[@ThunderWarrior01]

I’ve got a sdr radio incoming,just waiting on delivery and I’ll be there listening myself

[@jannejohansson3383]

Weather is awful snow and bad overall, it could effect to signal as well..

[@kg4boj]

​@jannejohansson3383 yeah it's cloudy with a chance of jamming 😂

[@killbaal4149]

Congrats!!! That is one of the coolest things I have seen. I got my grandparents old radio that had shortwave frequencies back in the early 1970s and number stations freaked me out and made a big impression though it wasn’t enough to inspire me to work in communications. I was always mathematically illiterate and lazy. Thus, I was in a mechanized infantry unit and then did the police thing until retirement. I guess I always worked with radios but never took any ham radio licenses and just listened to shortwave and local scanners for weather, Police and Fire. Super cool hobby, thanks for putting these videos out!

[@katho8472]

My dad was a soldier from around '65 to 95' (Western Germany) and before the wall came down, he would be working the radios also at the West German border towards the GDR. It was commonly known that the other side had fair ideas of what you were doing. He told stories that regularly, they could listen to GDR transmissions saying "And we welcome the delta shift taking up their work right now...", which indeed was the case, that way making 'your enemy' know they have quite some intel... It doesn't surprise me that Russians would react to what "we Westeners" would be doing ;).

[@M0UAW_IO83]

I'm 100% certain we used to play very similar games with the GDR. A friend's uncle was one of the guys who drove the spy cars (like the Opel Senator at RAF Cosford), some of the stories were, even if only 10% true, incredible, for instance there's a pic of him held at gunpoint and being shaken warmly by the throat by a GDR 'soldier' in plain clothes.

[@arostwocents]

You know for sure that USA responds to Russian actions

[@colincron2195]

SWIM advised me that used to happen between Soviet morse and US morse servicemembers in the 80s. They would welcome each other to their shifts, they would wish each other happy holidays, etc

[@Ootgreet1]

Troll faces embedded in radio spectrums?! It sounds like futuristic-folk-improv. Really fascinating.

[@highpath4776]

there is another yt recommended to me of shapes etc in audio frequencies , cannot recall what it was as I did not look at it

[@Lee_303]

@@highpath4776 it wasn't Aphex Twin run through a spectrograph was it?

[@highpath4776]

@@Lee_303 Poss. I wonder if you get the same in Audacity !

[@jamess1787]

The guys doing the waterfall art: not going to lie, was pretty impressed. 🙏

[@thomassecurename3152]

Glory to Ringway Manchester.

[@MerelyGifted]

Simultaneously hysterical *and* spooky AF! @_@ Another top notch vid, RM!

[@shocolad]

one of your best video for russian speakers. i really enjoyd that. some of the station have really good recordings. some swears. the "i dont have a modem" song, and even glory to ukraine - lechaim israel really good editing. thanks :-)

[@r618y]

3:48 "u nas nyet madema" --- "we don't have a modem", followed by dialup handshake (lol)

[@CTCTraining1]

What a marvellous combination of high tech and low-fi 😀 Personally I’d love to hear some jazz improv around The Buzzer ... slap it on some vinyl and it could be an Xmas #1.

[@RCAvhstape]

Some Coltrane and some Miles

[@BrodyLuv2]

I can clean it up with a few noise filters 😁👍

[@rezdm]

What is said at 2:27 mark: - ты там не уснул? (неразбочиво) - у меня приёма нет, я тебя не услышу - (ругательства) - гвозди для закручивания or translated: - are you sleeping there? (then something I could not decipher) - I don't have reception, I will not hear you - (some profanity) - nails to screw, nails to screw the last bit is either some code or some slang/jargon I don't recognize

[@nozhki-busha]

"гвозди для закручивания" nails to screws at the end is likely code as it isnt a Russian idiom or anything like this.

[@ifell3]

Awesome stuff, if it was from the actual number station I take my hats off to them, making life more enjoyable.

[@Liammcgowan]

haha, awesome 🙂 just comrades conveying their appreciation for keeping people like me in the loop.

[@iBackshift]

HAHAHAHAHA....oh, coffee almost out of my nose. Buddy, I would be honored about that.

[@iana6713]

That bit with your signature tune - imagine if that is some bored Russian operator at the base for that station mucking about...

[@c94d44027]

On 4:00 someone sings “We don’t have a modem, we don’t have a modem” in Russian.

[@interstellaraudiodnb]

I love this!!! You’re making drum and bass reach the world!!! 💪💪💪

[@burgesj7]

You make my skin crawl in the most genuine, real way possible.

[@RingwayManchester]

What me personally?

[@burgesj7]

@@RingwayManchester haha no no. Just the content and how it's delivered. It's wild to someone who knows almost nothing about the subject

[@RingwayManchester]

Oh! 😂

[@briantheminer]

You’re more famous than you thought, brilliant

[@bigfatamishbob6935]

Dude I love your channel. You have taught me quite a lot. Thank you! :)

[@MrLaprius]

Oh to hear stuff like that locally, Australia is too far away from all the fun!!

[@MrWaalkman]

KiwiSDR is your friend. Or how I listened to the Women's soccer final. :)

[@MrLaprius]

@@MrWaalkman are you saying that NZ is where the action is? 😆

[@MrWaalkman]

​@@MrLapriusI guess! LOL. Check it out though, it's a lot of fun. 😄

[@Joewho72]

Thanks for your Videos. I'm in Pittsburgh PA USA and I have listened to Shortwave Radio since I was 9 Years Old 38 Years ago.

[@MaxStax1]

So interesting! I laughed at the reference to "Plankton" from Spongebob, lol 😆 Thanks for posting! I look forward to your videos!

[@SilverSpoon_]

year 2025 - war happened, no more internet, but there's still memes

[@lol32scbw]

Russian guys will keep your memes for future times.

[@DUKE_of_RAMBLE]

We need Ron Perlman to record: _"Trolls.... Trolls never change..."_ As an homage to the _Fallout_ games _(FO3 more specifically)_ which the intro video he says _"War... War never changes..."_ 😅

[@polosandoval]

Someone was playing audio snippets from this video over the buzzer 4625.00 at 8:53 PM EST Dec. 2 2023. Did anyone hear it?

[@radiomania18]

It was me. My nicks on air is SNEG-05 and DJ furry. Check old streams

[@billyhatcher643]

lol this is hilarious if this is real russia seems to be watching your vids and played your theme song which is funny to hear it on shortwave funny thing is they did it all on my bday which was yesterday and i find this amazing to see

[@Seasonstobecheerful]

Drum n bass 🔊 pirates ☠️, data streaming nonsense 😅 love it ❤ nice work Lewis 👍

[@ccgillett]

This is craaaaaazy! Thanks for these videos, my mind is blown.

[@thomashenden71]

Seems like even the new cold war also will be played out on the shortwave, though with more humour… We live in a really weird world…

[@heinzletzte.6385]

@alexc4924 That is true unfortunately. But in Terms of actual power USA seems to fall apart.

[@SprocketGames]

The other song mixed in with yours at the beginning of this video sounds like the music used by LGR (Lazy Game Reviews). At timestamp 0:20

[@michaelnaretto3409]

I worked in a comm shack on a ship. Late at night and out in the middle of the Western Pacific, we hear d some strange signals coming from who knows where.

[@fjb4932]

Off the coast of China/Philippines during the Vietnam war, i'd listen to a very well spoken Chinese broad spewing propaganda about the Americans in Vietnam. Very sexy voice, played Western music ( to get us to listen ), spoke with a slight British accent. All this heard on a small short wave radio, late at night on the briney deep. Don't ask what a Seebee was doing on an MSC Oceanographic Research vessel in early '70's . . . ☆

[@Peter_S_]

@@fjb4932 I'm certainly not asking, just saying 'Seabee on a MSC Oceanographic Research vessel in early '70's' makes me think of words like Glomar.

[@fjb4932]

@@Peter_S_ ! That's Exactly what i would have guessed, hadn't i learned better over the next 18 months. But strictly Oceanographic Research: mapping ocean depth, water temp, salinity, currents, underwater anomalies. Ship'S crew was Military Sealife Command ( MSC ), rest were Grey water sailors that had stumbled upon paradise ( ie: 2 man staterooms sharing a common head, unlimited hot water /Navy showers unheard of, stewards to fetch your order at mealtime and clear away your dishes, shrimp-lobster-steak served till we begged for hot dogs & hamburgers ), Airdale helo crew ( Seasprite, don't know if the Navy / Coast Guard still fly them ),U.S. MARINE Engineer Survey Detachment, SEABEES ( 2Cm's, 2Bu's, 1Ea ), and NavAid Det ( wore military shirts w/o name nor rank and SEAL/UDT/EOD khaki shorts, long haired, manned electronic sites on islands, 'all i know... ). Deployed 28 days at sea and 2 days in port ( Pusan, S.K. in summer and Subic Bay in winter ). Classified as Arduous Duty so normal tour was 12 months. I was a 2x6 ( 2 yrs Active) so spent my remaing 18 months on that tub ! Next 18 till Retirement at duty stations on land. Landlubber. ☆

[@FuzeTheWholeTeam]

phenomenal video. enojoyed this very much

[@simontemplar0468]

Great stuff as always Lewis. Thank you for the video my friend . 73 from Mount Hood, Oregon

[@ashermil]

Thanks for sharing your spectral curiosities with us! This one’s so great!

[@kzeppeg]

Brilliant!

[@indridcold8433]

Tuning into 4.625 Mhz and 4.525 Mhz have nothing on them tonight on the date of the 7th of April, 2024.

[@M7BVV-Phil]

Your views & likes are going crazy whilst I'm watching this,good video Lewis:)

[@RT-qd8yl]

I imagine some lowly young free thinking Russian conscript seeing/hearing all of this and doing everything in his absolute power to keep from laughing or smirking in front of his superiors.

[@JorvikBerserkir]

why would a conscript be listening to the buzzer?

[@koljanos]

lol, naw it ain’t the army at all

[@ФеофанЭтополедолжнобытьзаполне]

@@fungo6631 there are no conscripts in voyenkomats, only officers and civilians. And they are definitely not coordinating using buzzers.

[@koljanos]

Yeah, ofc ;)

[@bluudlung]

i imagine you have no idea what you're talking about

[@УстимРезник]

2:32 operator is nugging about quality of connection. And say: I am sitting here and broadcasting pictures. And next "nails for screwing" several times. Привет тебе скучающий связист :)

[@southcalder]

I think if I’d heard the buzzer change to a beep, I’d be heading down to the shelter.

[@tomlobos2871]

more likely than not that russian radio operators spend their free time here, just like we do.

[@bathtub1171]

The 80's soviet music at 1:42 is 1. Мираж - Наступает Ночь 2. Комиссар - Ты Уйдешь

[@awiseseal7559]

Thanks

[@Milcom34]

Thanks RM **** Great Video as Always*****

[@FrozenMilkOnACloudyDay]

Fascinating

[@SianaGearz]

4:20 "У нас нет модема, у нес нет модема, у нас нету модема!" I won't even dare to transcribe the one at 6 minutes but it's funny.

[@nozhki-busha]

5:59 to 6:30 ire mostly swear words and what sounds like "We're Russians, the master Putin is with us, d***h to all Jews".

[@hi-tech_soldier2558]

sieg hail putin 1448, I wonder who made that transmission

[@l.a.2646]

This is so cool! I can rarely hear their frequencies directly on my amateur radio receivers. here in the northeastern states really heavy QSB. I really like that they played your theme song ! Anyone have a favorite online SDR that hears them? I really struggle to hear those signals on my rigs. ( except when conditions are really good)

[@TheRattyBiker]

Jodrell Bank is a great antenna and has an online SDR - not sure wether it can detect these but well worth a look!

[@83Yankee]

Websdr and then check out the various European streams. There are(were, at least) several streams that picked up the buzzer and the site uses a waterfall, so you should be able to see the images as well.

[@l.a.2646]

@83Yankee thanks to both of you guys ! , some of the streams in Europe aren't equipped or maybe not allowed on certain chunks of spectrum. I tried my home rigs tonight but those recent CMEs still affecting the atmosphere. So I'll try looking again with websdr , thanx again, 73

[@DarkNightDreamer]

The Twente web sdr is a good one that covers a wide swath of frequencies. Its probably the most popular web sdr. Google it and it will be the first link.@@l.a.2646

[@alex-E7WHU]

Glory to Ukraine 🤣 like lord haw haw at his best.

[@AndrejsNg100]

"У нас нет модема, у нас нееет модееема" is it transmitted from "The Arrow" station? 😆

[@nofider1]

Nice one Lewis. Was listening 4625 and watching some shenanigans on my waterfall this evening. :-)

[@wes11bravo]

I'm in Pennsylvania USA and was wondering if I can hear it. Are you in the US too?

[@r2daobert]

Just saw a smiling bee In the waterfall. PA as well

[@rezdm]

At 4:46 the transmission is basically some words that are used the same as NATO alphabet (alpha, bravo, charlie, delta, ...) but in Russian.

[@thesummergamer7245]

and ofc this happened on the one day i was too bored to check out the sdr 💀

[@chrisdooley1184]

I wish I could understand what is going on technically with these broadcasts 😢. I’m not too sure where to begin but I honestly feel this is my new hobby I need now that I’m in my fifties lol. Very interesting video

[@UD503J]

The scanner waterfall just interprets the frequencies of sound and maps them over an axis (lower frequency on the right, higher frequency on the left.) Since the waterfall scrolls, it's basically "reading" sound changes over time (older information is pushed up.) To create the image, you basically have a program that knows what the bandwidth of the channel is (on shortwave, you're talking about upper side band, lower sideband, etc.) and then makes a tone at the frequency where the "pixel" needs to be on the waterfall display. Since the waterfall is showing you frequencies over time, the image is built to "stack" from top to bottom as the waterfall scrolls. Lewis has a newer video about SSTV that might help to understand the math behind how this works. It's not exactly the same thing, but the way radio tones turn into an image is fundamentally the same.

[@c3pno]

That would be so funny to hear your own tune 🤣🤣🤣 I'd be pissing myself

[@StalinTheMan0fSteel]

Kind of reminds me of the "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" with the secret messages backwards etc, like "Paul is dead", that kind of thing! LOL! 😊

[@domestosteron]

My guess would be that the buzzer operations saw your videos and liked them (if it wasn't a signal hijacking).

[@Stoney3K]

I'm getting less and less surprised if the old Buzzer was just left online as a red herring just to distract SIGINT operators, and the station is operated entirely by remote, so it's nothing but a computer connected to the internet playing audio.

[@wazza33racer]

There you are......people are taking notice!

[@KaylansDrone]

More reasons to buy an icom HF radio. But way beyond my financial capabilities. Dang i want one so bad...

[@SixFox]

Buy an SDR and make a longwire antenna you can listen for under 100 USD :D

[@wes11bravo]

I also highly encourage you to buy an SDR setup if you're only interested in listening. Even if your ultimate goal is to get the excellent IC-7300, you can get started much easier and cheaper with an SDR dongle, free software, and some wire thrown up into the trees.

[@Peter_S_]

Starting with a Pi and an SDR dongle will allow you to perfect your antenna + filter and/or LNA setup before you upgrade your receiver.

[@Knaeckebrotsaege]

@@SixFox sadly waaay too noisy here with tons of switchmode PSUs and DLAN noise. gotta love when people willingly turn their entire (unshielded) power wiring into antennas broadcasting nothing but noise

[@paulmorrey4298]

Thanks Lewis

[@undrhil]

Right now on 4525 kilohertz, I can hear a buzzer and I can hear Morse code occasionally

[@deadreaver666]

BRO! No Way! Thats absurd

[@BecomeANoob]

Awesome work !

[@petermainwaringsx]

Some bizzare stuff there. Weird and wonderful is right.

[@bobsoldrecords1503]

There are the occasional pirates hanging out on the UVB 76 KZbin stream as well.

[@mrs-chief]

My russian is terrible and I haven't listened to it again, but on first listen, that def sounded like a monolith transmission. Will try to transpose it

[@mrs-chief]

It's terrible quality but I caught "null null priyom" at the end which would be "zero zero received"

[@VooDooEf]

4:28 he sing: we have not a modem, multiple times, before there was a chat between two people, about some live streaming with many swear words

[@torspedia]

Nice to hear a bit of Spectrum loading sound at 03:58. 🙂

[@gtretroworld]

Now that was some decent recognition Lewis…brill video!👍

[@KryptLynx]

4:!5 "We don't have a modem, we don't have a modem, we do not have a modem, we don't have a modem!" (next to last was "нету модема" instead of "нет модема") In general, most of records sounds like drank rumble heavily interleaved with obscene ranting

[@raganusmc]

Iv been following number stations for years Iv been crazy how they operate

[@terrywootton8882]

That made me smile.

[@ketas]

trollfaces on waterfall is priceless

[@caseymead9399]

No matter where they are from these pirates all have great spirit. Viva la technobois

[@JohnPatterson-kz8jr]

That song sounds like a jazz song from the 30's played backwards!!😮😅😊

[@Nick_G7IZR]

How do they draw faces in the waterfall? I assume there must be software available to generate the sounds or something?

[@cannack]

the waterfall visualizes the RF being received, the `sound` of the image would be between a hum and a DSL router dialing up, the image IS the sound that IS the RF

[@Peter_S_]

You only need to run your desired image through what is essentially the reverse of a spectrum analyzer. In FM transmissions the carrier frequency is modulated over a small range of bandwidth and that's the width of what you see on the waterfall display. By outputting signal on some frequencies and not on others you can create what is in essence a row pixels represented by frequency bins. This is a very simple task in software when running on DSP hardware, but don't bother trying it manually with pen and paper.

[@CHGOfficial512]

there possibly are multiple options, just google it

[@massimogiunta1996]

You can find an app for I phone that does that both ways

[@mebeperson]

I was actually on that SDR/in the chat you mentioned on the 29th when it happened. We """talked""" with this dude for a bit and discussed theories. We figured out that the signal is coming from somewhere in northern Germany, which was confirmed by the pirate (nicknamed "sparrow" after jack sparrow) by playing the "FBI open up" sound. He even took song requests for a bit, which was fun. Edit: "Sparrow" was also most likely the one (or one of) responsible for the true buzzer being jammed.

[@minibikemadman]

were is this sdr chat at?

[@jayzee1968]

Ha.. had no idea that was possible. Freakn awesome.

[@John_Smith__]

LOL! Amazing! Whoever he is this is certainly a Reply to you and your Videos! LOL! Outstanding no doubt!

[@griffinbastion]

might be a shout to put out some community annoucements on yt/other social media to get people to translate it before uploading

[@lexinexi-hj7zo]

Coolest ringway video. love how people are messing with puttins favorite buzzer.

[@rain_7D6]

I am dying from these pirates 💀💀💀 Singing:"We dont have a modem" followed by a modem sounds

[@theradiomachete2364]

pirate over the new buzzer "uuUUuUu we dont have a modem, we dont have a modem, we dont have a modem, uuuUuU"

[@pauljs75]

I suppose if they were bored enough they could probably do color images that way too. It'd be simple to waterfall an RGB-RGB-RGB-etc. type matrix in the same manner, but they'd have to pick an arbitrary bit depth in relation to signal strength of the triplet values of each pixel. However that would also require custom SDR software to interpret it with gain and offset adjustments to have the color value increments working just right. Kind of fun that they're sending little messages like this that they want to be seen, because if sticking to other practical methods it could just be static-y looking encrypted blocks instead.

[@manofkentcatapultsgunsando5069]

WEIRD

[@ScottCrouse]

Another excellent and interesting video. You mention the "SDR chat" at the 5.36 timestamp, where is this chat found? Always looking for live interaction but it seems sparse on the few spots I have found. I am a former military signals person and continue to dabble in shortwave. Thanks!

[@andreaswheeler]

brilliant

[@JohnDoe-el8tg]

4:20 - the guy is singing: " we have no modem, we don't have a modem.. a modem we don't have"... some nonsense :)

[@VilhjalmrVilhjalmrsson]

Just found something interesting down around 1004.50 (270 kHz). Sounds like the Underpants Gnomes from South Park.

[@RaglansElectricBaboon]

This is so weird and cool at the same time. I'm not sure what it means but I'm glad its here!

[@ancwhor]

guy in russian was singing "we dont have a modem" over and over

[@bunso_mpg]

Thats UVB-76 The Buzzer

[@JustAnotherPaddy]

May God protect the Pirates of the world

[@whiskeyvictor5703]

"Waterfall art": that's new to me! What will they think of next?!

[@Andrew-rc3vh]

Russian vodka?

[@noomnoom8469]

Did I or did I not say about that on a previous post? They know!