I Received The CRAZIEST Shortwave Radio Signals!

[@K3lwin]

Translation of message in russian as follows: "[this is] Moscow speaking. [we are] Transmitting an important government message. Citizens(m) and citizens(f) of the Soviet Union! Our cause is just! Enemy will be defeated! The victory is ours to claim!" repeated three times. Appears to be an old recording of the voice of Yuri Levitan or some other famous soviet radio announcer. Then there seems to be a parody of that message, with "Moscow" replaced with "moskal" - a mild national slur used mostly by ukrainians. I can't decipher the high pitched portion between unaltered and this version though, as well as following announcement in ukrainian. Back in summer of 2022 this frequency had WAY harsher transmissions full of slurs and hate speech. Also, there are a lot of bickering radio pirates seemingly form both side of the border in LSB on some frequencies nearby.

[@Dwigt_Rortugal]

I kept wondering, "Is he saying, 'Moscow?'" (Between all the Incantations) I didn't realize the word was butchered. When I hear that deep and ridiculously dramatic voice, of course having no idea what is being said, I envision an old fashioned magician saying magic words over a prop.

[@d..c4808]

" Appears to be an old recording of the voice of Yuri Levitan or some other famous soviet radio announcer." Sounds like the announcer who broadcast to the USSR and the world that Yuri Gagarin had successfully made it into orbit.

[@christopherlewis1847]

Thanks for the translation

[@winstonsmith478]

Old Russian joke: In the event of an American nuclear attack, put a sheet over your head and walk slowly to the graveyard. Why slowly? To avoid a panic.

[@circattle]

@@d..c4808As sampled by The Orb on the title track of their album U.F.Orb

[@gnlimber]

That's really interesting - I need to get a shortwave radio. When I was a kid i used to borrow my uncle's shortwave radio to tune into Radio Moscow. Also I liked to just search around randomly, I was always amazed at the weird sounds that came over that radio!

[@Geertje1965]

Getting a SDR radio such as those made by Nooelec is the easiest and most affordable way to get started shortwave listening these days.

[@gnlimber]

@@Geertje1965 Cool and thanks, I'm going to start shopping online today!

[@Geertje1965]

@@gnlimber if you are interested in shortwave make sure you either buy an SDR that directly handles those frequencies or buy an SDR with a separate up-convertor such as a 'Ham-it-up'.

[@JrGoonior]

V4 R828D RTL2832U 1PPM TCXO HF Bias Tee SMA Software Defined Radio with Dipole Antenna Kit from Amazon plus SDR Sharp software. SDR Sharp is freeware and very popular.

[@gnlimber]

@@Geertje1965 Thanks!

[@arthurvasey]

Translations welcome - but keep them clean! In which case, they never said a word!

[@we4080]

Is says in Dutch: blikken tieten op 26,885. This translates in English to: Tin tits at 26,885

[@Dwigt_Rortugal]

Madonna?

[@blkauxpro]

Wikipedia says this about Matthew Ridgeway; "As commanding general in Korea, Ridgway gained the nickname "Tin Tits" for his habit of wearing hand grenades ... at chest-level. 😂😂😂

[@billyyank5807]

​@@blkauxpro that's hilarious 😂

[@bornach]

Thanks for saving us the embarrassment of using the wrong phrase when next we visit the Netherlands to eat cans.

[@tnfreemason]

Hey Lewis. I have been watching your videos for a while and I want to say thank you for your dedication. 73 from the USA 🇺🇸

[@seancearley]

Russian always sounds like someone playing a record backwards to me

[@NodeNomad]

😂 same to me

[@realfoggy]

Or maybe like Zoltan the old fortune telling machine

[@richardsanders4624]

Try Educating Yourself 😉

[@ModMokkaMatti]

So does Portuguese.

[@dafoex]

The only words I know are "Da", "Net", and "Mudak". Arguably that's all you need to know.

[@minibikemadman]

6860 AM a great lil pirate show starts at 930 pm est on fridays.

[@spacecat7247]

Always enjoy the spooky and oddball stuff. Ty for bring it to us. And the nerdy/tech stuff is enjoyable as well. Ty.

[@jofran10]

How much longer until we start seeing ads in the waterfall display?

[@jimgraham6722]

It's already being done, one form is a mode called 'sonic photo'.

[@Tedd755]

It's not legal, so no. Brands won't do this.

[@KrawnKam]

I had a short wave 35 years ago and it was a blast. My favorite was finding people on cruise ships calling home, although I only heard one side of the conversation.

[@explorer914]

I've just made a temporary antenna setup to my SDR and Ive managed to receive my first shortwave signals just a moment ago. I need to continue to fix with my antenna to improve my receiving capabilities though.

[@spindriftbeach6082]

You could try an antenna tuner. Easy enough to build

[@dkannegi]

I wonder how much the Russians depend off HF broadcast vs satcom... I'll find that out at the bar at work one of these days 😅. HF (3Mhz to 30 Mhz) is still used by the west but mostly as a concurrent backup in the event of a satcom denied environment (Russians are pretty swift at jamming satcom, but in doing so also would jam themselves out also). Keep up the good work Ringway Machester.

[@hiltopuk]

Certainly some of the most interesting radio listening at the moment! Thanks for compiling it all

[@StalinTheMan0fSteel]

When i was a kid, 40 meters was filled with trolls and jammers etc. The WESCARS net in SoCal was the epicenter. Foreign broadcast was horrendous too. Now, it's sparsely populated. You can actually get a clear freq to call CQ. 8-)

[@inter_1097]

I remember one 40m frequency (forget which one) was a pretty common hangout for black hams. Once in a while some jammer would shout racial slurs at them.

[@StalinTheMan0fSteel]

@@inter_1097 Yeah, a lot of that on the WARFA net even just a few years ago.

[@terryjwood]

@@inter_1097 That's sad.

[@Rocky_Railways97]

The buzzing sound on 5782 khz has been heard since December of last year, I’ve seen it on the bands for a long time, it’s mostly seen where the Squeaky Wheel’s second frequency used to be, it’s been going on and off for the past 12 months.

[@harlycorner]

I provided to translation but looks like KZbin held it for review

[@spacecat7247]

typical. The "fact checkers"

[@ATeaDaze]

Held for review? Slavic people would never use foul language

[@christopherlewis1847]

​@@ATeaDazeno, never....

[@azynkron]

A tip is to mask the "foul" words with e.g. fu**. Remember, the yanks are ok with violence but not bad language.

[@polarzxo1530]

@@azynkron friendly reminder yankland is the only country you cant be prosecuted for bad language in, and the only country you can swear in front of law enforcement in and be protected from arrest

[@ianmichael5768]

William Joyce would be at home in all this. Great as always!

[@TheMajkla]

I know who would Putler bring back if he had a time machine LOL.

[@raymondmartin6737]

Sounds like the old dialup modem. 😅

[@darkstatehk]

Sounds like the first 10-20 seconds of 4 Hero - Mr Kirk's Nightmare! You know I'm right :)

[@5lanediver]

BC that is exactly what it is doing, exchanging data like a modem did

[@Dwigt_Rortugal]

With a lively little ditty on a Fisher Price toy that makes melodic square waves.

[@NatesRandomVideo]

For those of us who had to troubleshoot those things… nah. Not even close.

[@Kw1161]

Thanks for the video…although as the events of the last two weeks have shown, any “Unbreakable communications “ can be subverted by a crafty spy agency or the 3 letter government operators that both our countries have…😂! I would love to see the supercomputers and operators hard at work…breaking the codes, just like pre-WWII ones. 73! Have a great day!

[@technoman9000]

I want to get back into shortwave... But my old yacht-boy doesn't pick up much anymore over the interference. Do you have a video about your setup and what (low-budget) equipment to recommend these days?

[@cevansinz]

Try one of the online SDR sites. You can stream their radios. Cheap and fun.

[@corpo33]

Im going go try and pick some of these stations up on my radios ..cheers .Ged in Ireland

[@MrSchorschschorsch]

The skull logo looks like the german Chaos Computer Club's old logo. It's called a Pesthörnchen.

[@Hi-lb8cq]

Here in Colorado we usually get the Cuban numbers station...haven't got anything weird lately

[@arthurpozner7701]

Lately - even their regular HF broadcasting transmitters been off the air for months...

[@cantthinkofahandle123]

i love your videos

[@sondrayork6317]

Sounds like SSTV in a way where the first two tones sounded the same as the header tones in an SSTV signal.

[@RackTheMilesWelding]

Half the time on web sdr I find a lot of Morse code beep stations in RU

[@SpyStaMia]

2:17 - Nah. You are wrong … that’s Skrillex about to DROP that BASS! 😂

[@Dwigt_Rortugal]

It's the dubstep deli slicer. Brrt brrt brrt.

[@blkauxpro]

It does have a sick groove...

[@terryjwood]

Is the Ukrainian radio war on 7055 KHz or 5055 KHz. You said "70 double 5", but your graphic lists 5055 KHz.

[@OGsemizen]

7055 KHz

[@richardsanders4624]

Nice Images of Old Post Office/BT Tower London. 😉

[@grahamfisher5436]

Backbone

[@ThunderWarrior01]

I sent a video to your good self over X earlier this week of the final part of the video because I’d never heard anything like that before especially the fast looping and use of both adult and child voices not to mention the switching of frequencies so rapidly

[@markharpen7417]

Thank You for the great video and very interesting! You produce amazing quality content!

[@sondrayork6317]

The 40 meter band does get crazy at night. I do a lot of SWLing using WebSDR and I have heard some of the shit that goes on down there lol.

[@josios1]

The same buzzer as on 6930, 7950 and 5782 also sometimes appears on 8365, 6365 and 5375 khz

[@Kieran_McNally]

My kitten loves the F07 recording.

[@MercyOnASinnerLikeMe]

I think the first one is saying; "Send vodka. Our cheese is moldy and bread has gone stale. Need potatoes. Pitun sucks."

[@paulmorrey4298]

Thanks Lewis

[@OldManBadly]

The channel market / propagation tests are perhaps the most interesting in a sense for Russian stations. What I had heard is that they use "friendly" (ie, sleeper type agents) who have basic simple receiving equipment in various places around the world. They don't even know that it is they really have. They just plug it into their internet connection and it's all good. The boxes don't send signals back directly to Russia, but instead are automatically sending signal reports of sorts to third parties, who are then putting them together and boxing them up to be communicated back to Russia itself. It makes it possible to send traffic only when your intended target is in reception. The people doing the monitoring have actually no clue, it's just a box that sits there and does whatever. They don't have any idea, so they can't really divulge anything. Probably looks like a computer or a router or perhaps an IPTV box or what have you. You can imagine with a lot of data mining they can send messages very reliably to agents all over the world.

[@leelizington9501]

I decoded the 1st one and now playing jet set Willy on my zx spectrum 😂

[@robertroth624]

it almost sounds like some old school dial up tones

[@kris_hibner]

In the final one I hear "Putin , salami, salami… don't eat mescal.... roast beef .... Mariopol"

[@arthurpozner7701]

Just this: Govorit Moskal... Pobeda budet za nami ... and No pastrami for You !

[@kote315]

6:00 At the beginning, you can hear the voice of Yuri Livetan, a Soviet radio announcer during the WW2. This is a fragment from the announcement of Germany's attack on the USSR and the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. (In fact, this recording was recreated after the end of the war, since the original recording from 1941 is missing). He says, "Attention, this is Moscow speaking! We are transmitting an important government message! Citizens of the Soviet Union! The enemy will be defeated, we will achieve victory!" 6:50 The message changes - instead of "Moscow speaking" it is now "Moskal speaking". The word Moskal can be perceived in different ways, often it is used by Ukrainians to call Russians in a negative context. Kind of like the N-word in English. 7:30 A fragment of Zelensky's speech, where he promises to soon conquer several cities, as well as restore electricity and heating.

[@David-eg6sd]

In that buzzer signal I can make out a capital E, Some N, maybe some M...

[@ramjet4025]

Thanks to K3LWIN, for the translation, I remember finding an old plastic speaker box with a pair of wires poking out, in my ex wife's apartment, she is ex because she was violent beyond comprehension, used to beat her daughter up with a coat hangar , and left me bleeding around the throat from a strangulation attempt, anyhow, I found two wires poking out of the wall that gave quite a shock, but when connected, out came a similar classic voice, that sounds like today's Radio Myak. Its classic Russian that I think most Russians don't want to hear today. Its a bit like the classic Russian poem, "Wait for me", that now means every day hundreds of Russians are getting toe tags and won't be returning, not even their corpses.

[@StreakyP]

are there no speech to text AI translators that can cope with these signals?

[@Milcom34]

Thanks RM. Your Channel and Information is the Best**** Take Care.

[@bearb1asting]

3:50 [Music] [Applause]

[@simonmason8582]

Great intercepts, Lewis. 🙂

[@janvelter3253]

I'm flemish belgian so Dutch is my mother language andI thinks it's "blikken tieten op "with "tieten" meaning womens brests, boobies in a kind of way they're showing it.

[@Bluelagoonstudios]

I'm Flemish too, but it says me nothing, if it is a Dutchman, and he is from the north, it's a difficult dialect. And most pirates are there.

[@Dwigt_Rortugal]

No matter which technology we invent, it always comes down to mammaries, doesn't it?

[@cthoadmin7458]

@@Dwigt_Rortugal Interesting point. I think you are right, from invention of photography onwards... In fact maybe even the printing press...

[@zach0gr]

The bursts remind me of the old signal of 4625 UVB76 ... i font know if they still transmit

[@Lavxa]

Very interesting! How can I get lower frequencies? I am using a hand held TDH3.. don’t think I can

[@HarenunHoppus]

I wish i have my tecsun pl-330 so i can hear the weirdness too.

[@giovafra61]

A true digi mode's mix concert!

[@erkkiruohtula632]

What kind of equipment is needed to see that frequency analysis and pictures?

[@mace41canuck]

First one was “vodka good dimitri thank you “ over

[@MattHudz]

Wish there was more to listen to In the lower US.

[@onnellinen_ankka]

I cant wait for my new radio this video is making me jealous

[@winstonsmith478]

Is there an SDR software plug-in that can recognize the modulation of the tuned signal, especially digital modes?

[@IndependentNewsMedia]

Nice overview video, God bless.

[@artpowers319]

What would be a good beginner shortwave radio?

[@MrWaalkman]

Check out KiwiSDR, you can tune in to a local radio and get some practice listening to the bands and modes. And +1 on the Tecsun. But KiwiSDR is free.

[@peterh9238]

SDR and a laptop. Something like an Airspy

[@cthoadmin7458]

Get an RSPdx SDR radio. The best receiver I have ever owned. Does shortwave and far more.

[@WyeindependantMedia]

you said 7055khz for the Russian Ukrainian radio war but in the text on the vid you typed 5055khz. which is it please ?

[@MrEdTraveller]

Definitely 7055kHz.

[@gregorydobson4307]

I noticed that too. Beat me to it 😅

[@Diamond1356_]

7055 khz is a trash frequency with non stop trashtalking between amateurs

[@bob_mosavo]

Thanks 👍

[@Leonardmac66]

Unfortunately I cannot pick up any of them here in The Colonies

[@tfm55x]

There are lots of WebSDRs all over the world that you can use to listen to these signals.

[@luddite6239]

"...russian intelligence." Classic oxymoron!

[@daveh7720]

To heavily paraphrase the film Paper Moon, "If Russia has intelligence it probably belongs to somebody else."

[@shedshitley]

ah yes, using the criminal actions of a state as an excuse for bigotry against hundreds of millions of people that have nothing to do with anything. the cold war's back on, baby!

[@richardsanders4624]

Uhm..But Winning against u.s. nato-ukraine..!!

[@luddite6239]

@richardsanders4624 Well, if you class a planned 3 day operation that's still not achieved its objectives after the best part of 1000 days as "winning" then, okay, congratulations Pootin.

[@TheMajkla]

Humour is like freedom in ruSSia - not everyone gets it.

[@sxcv8131]

Ukrainian text translation is: "Dear Ukrainians, I am promising to you that in just five years we'll capture Sudzha, though we will lose Mariupol, Avdiivka, Bakhmut, Lisychansk, Severodonetsk and other cities, but that's not important. You will find joy in such little things as electricity and heating" - all listed towns are currently captured or destroyed by ruzzia, with Sudzha being a town in Kursk region of russia currently under control of UA forces. Whole message is clearly a ruzzian made mock of Zelensky's inauguration speech from 2019.

[@Povilaz]

Very interesting!

[@jeffreyspeltie1961]

Awesome video

[@raymondmartin6737]

The second sounds like froggy. 😅

[@Rocky_Railways97]

The fact that you can see a clear skull and bones spectrogram is very interesting to me as an amateur radio operator and listener working on radio communication for russian and American military operations.

[@madcarew5168]

Decoded in No10??

[@77yblacky14]

yeah

[@indridcold2872]

That's certainly not Dutch not even close.

[@winstonchurchill6506]

Watched a video last night some yank called rubicon you will never guess who was on it...nice one

[@v0n1b0]

You did a good job holding your own with Randolpho but I still need to know: City or United?

[@johnm0jfe]

So 40m getting battered with QRM on 7.030 +/- & 7.060 +/- possibly to do with Ukraine war radar but certainly wipes the band portion out. Be helpful if you could do something about it as intruder watch doest want to be bothered by the African broadcast station at 7.200 down to 7.190

[@mickgatz214]

👍

[@GeorgeLiquor]

The Russians love their MFSK. They probably have a dozen modes that use it at this point

[@foobarf8766]

aka the CIS modes, also newer OFDM modes now, and a jam-resistant multi-carrier spread spectrum mode

[@jackf5941]

I can hear govorit moskva(Moscow speaking) and pobeda budit za namie (victory will be ours)

[@fclancy2724]

He says: Говорит Москва Передаём важное правительственное сообщение Граждане и гражданки Советского союза Наше дело правое Враг будет разбит Победа будет за нами

[@colourist.]

All your HF are belong to us

[@Dwigt_Rortugal]

Make your time.

[@johnnorth9355]

Can they please all stay clear of the ham bands ? Getting fed up of the nuisance. M7BLC.

[@Bartok_J]

Be thankful that you weren't active in the Cold War days. The European 40m amateur band was only 7.0 - 7.1MHz back then, and filled with broadcast intruders: China, various Asian and Middle Eastern stations (legit and clandestine) and, worst of all, Radio Tirana blasting out dreary propaganda with 120kW on up to three channels. To make it worse, when Tirana broadcast in Russian the Soviet jammers piled on top of them. :-(

[@M6JKW]

🙂👍

[@JendrossekSip]

Tieten op means Tits uo, dutch pirates for sure 😅

[@gorankoilic6571]

A Russian mentioned Soviet Union.

[@richardsanders4624]

KGB does not exist

[@arthurpozner7701]

Yes, it is live and kicking. But not in Moscow ... they use different 3 letters.

[@mikesmith-po8nd]

"New name, same friendly service." To quote from a James Bond movie.

[@Dwigt_Rortugal]

...says the KGB. "You saw nothing."