Strange NEW Russian Military Signals Just Appeared!

[@ChumlyPage]

your awesome

[@RingwayManchester]

So are you!

[@gordslater]

@@danreuther1446 I've done some simple cryptanalysis on this and I think it's a subsitution cypher - the W equates to the compound "RS" and the M equates to "L"

[@legoushque3334]

@@danreuther1446"Yr'oue"

[@kcnmsepognln]

@@danreuther1446 "ur"

[@Daniel37parker]

@@legoushque3334 Yo'ree*

[@Radionut]

Shortwave radio is not dead it’s not even dying it’s even more intriguing than it ever was

[@Mistabushi]

One of the older guys I work with used to be in eastern bloc army and was responsible for ground-to-air defence near the Russian border. Explained to me how their number stations worked or those one that send names every half an hour or so. Basically he was sitting in his small booth near the launcher with all system on stand-by, so would take around 2mins to start everything(lamps) and would listen to the radio whole shift waiting for his launcher codename.voice in the speaker would go Yulia, Tatiana, Olga……upon hearing his name he would have if I’m not mistaken 20sec to press big button telling operator he is alive and launcher is ready to go. I mean years passed but can see that the system is still being used. 😂

[@boxingday11]

Amazes me how much time and effort you must put in to your uploads, thanks Lewis.👍🏻

[@RingwayManchester]

Glad you like them! Thanks

[@brianmorris8045]

I think he does a mighty job of it all.

[@2m0rot]

Ten years ago I was fascinated by "The Buzzer" and listened to it for months on end. One night, suddenly for 30 seconds only, a Russian female read out a series of numbers then it stopped. I've never heard it since. I guess I got lucky that night.

[@B00MERTEC]

missile launch codes 😵‍💫

[@kphaxx]

@@B00MERTECLottery numbers for who gets drafted next

[@KissaKassKot]

​@@kphaxx lmao

[@dimitri1154]

It was bingo numbers 😅

[@johnjohnson8818]

​​@@B00MERTEC I think it is coded order to hidden spy to start or cancel planned operation. Yea, now we have internet. But in internet you can be tracked. So, you just turn on your radio in right time an listening order.

[@marsgal42]

Lots of weird and wonderful noises. 🙂 As a resident of western Canada I hear the Japanese Slot Machine regularly. Plus lots of CODAR between 4 and 5 MHz in the evening.

[@donwayne1357]

Canada? The only thing you should be hearing is Gordon Lightfoot and Anne Murray!! All day, all the time. Good stuff there, you done the world good with those two!!

[@billdang3953]

@@donwayne1357 Don't forget Murray McLauchlan and Melwood Cutlery as well.

[@runrau9275]

@@billdang3953 Or Ian and Sylvia - Four Strong Winds

[@spudskie3907]

Don’t forget Rush!

[@mgaeeeee9150]

​@@donwayne1357nah, Rush. All the time, just Rush.

[@LaLaLand.Germany]

Aww, Number stations- I grew up in West Germany next the border and in the glory 70´s the sw band was buzzing with life, that´s when I found some German ones and actually written down the numbers sometimes to ask my Dad what that was. I bet he knew but didn´t tell, he just had that strange face and when I was at school my Mom really went thru my stuff and the numbers were gone. I´d have loved to record them but as a 6yr old I had no means but write them down. I always expected it to be spy stuff but no one confirmed or denied those days. And not to seem any weirder than I already was I stopped asking around and talking about the numbers. Now I know what they were and how the system worked- thanks to guys like You.

[@dondrapersayswhat]

If I had to guess, your parents tossed your numbers not necessarily because they knew what they were, but because they knew it wouldn't have looked good at all if the BND came knocking at your door and had a look around. You probably know by now those numbers were for spies.

[@unixtohack]

Heavy .. I did the same thing in my young times using an very old radio … It ware some hidden messages I think from military bases

[@arostwocents]

How would your dad have possibly known? It only became widely known what they were after the internet afaik

[@bazz303]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gongs_or_Chimes_(numbers_station) de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gong_(Zahlensender)

[@LaLaLand.Germany]

Let me put it this way: My Dad´s Dad was in the Wehrmacht, my Dad joined the new Bundeswehr and they knew about the Gehlen group, Germanys pre BND thing. The techinque is very simple and very old.@@arostwocents

[@MickHurst65]

This is the channel for all radio and telecommunications, well researched and passionate.

[@donwayne1357]

Just a little to the left with a quick twisty.

[@brianmorris8045]

I remember as a lad picking up Radio Moscow, while living in Sydney, my home town..it was easy to find, they were playing the first line of the tune 'Midnight in Moscow, very slowly, then repeating it. Where as Radio Australia were playing the first line of Waltzing Matilda. The good old days when our station was on shortwave, and now online...boring...the fun of finding our station while overseas in Malaysia was exciting and listening to our Aussie news. I used to pick it up mostly on 11.74 megs. I'm fortunate to lived in a period when shortwave was still operating on a large scale. I picked up All India Radio a couple of weeks ago, listening to sitar playing competition. Then a bit of Bollywood, then just other Indian music which I also enjoyed while living in Malaysia..was Tamil music then, but on Radio Malaysia. Radio Malaysia is the national station. But it was great to listen to All India Radio again. I used to pick that up while living in Malaysia too.. forget the frequency, and didn't write it down last week. As for those Russian markers...well.

[@andyturbo]

Melbourne is better than Sydney but I enjoyed both on my trip to Australia a decade ago.

[@GeneralThargor]

Sir I love your output, I'm not a radio engineer but your explanations and knowledge are fascinating. Have you heard any of the messages between the Russian and Ukrainian infantrymen, especially over the frequency the Russians use to encourage the Ukrainians to surrender?

[@TheRisenPeopleEire]

Ah that's just me conversing with my handlers.

[@dannyt1705]

I guess we are being figured out caught LOL

[@TheRisenPeopleEire]

haha@@dannyt1705

[@RCAvhstape]

The creepiness of SW radio makes it so awesome.

[@luminousfractal420]

Blind men stumbling in the dark with daggers drawn

[@wtmayhew]

My favorite is the jammers whose signals are images of Homer Simpson when seen on an SDR waterfall display. Fun stuff!

[@WA4TKG]

LMAO

[@Cthorlhu]

That one signal sounds like Jim Kirk is trying to send a message to Spock

[@donwayne1357]

Sounds like the Illinois Enema Bandit doing a night time visit to The Great Cornholio.

[@jmcpherson]

..."with stone knives and bearskins....😃

[@brianmorris8045]

😂

[@nxesr]

What would be absolutely amazing is after the video do a get together with some of your radio buddies and do a rundown of the findings would love to see this discussion. 100% down for that 📡

[@bluenetmarketing]

Very interesting. Reminiscent of the bad old WWII and cold war days.

[@fredwood1490]

I remember, back in the 1960s, hearing signals like these on an AM-FM radio, having no idea what they were. We just called it "Interference", but it did seem to have a mystique to it. Now I find I was listening to the Cold War in action!

[@BarefootBeekeeper]

There's a constant, strong and repetitive signal on UK CB channel 35 that appeared a couple of months ago.

[@donchaput8278]

@1:00 If you speed it up to 2x it sounds like the sensors from the original Star Trek. Haha

[@michaelwilliams9234]

6322 KHz USB has gone to the same "pip" channel marker as the other two now. It's no longer playing Katyusha.

[@samuelhulme8347]

They may of been testing the transmitter before they turned it into its “proper” job.

[@CH11LER.]

I wonder if them sounds could be data packets like old computers used audio on tape for data storage? Obviously, it will be encrypted, probably use a custom file format and encoding as well as custom software for decryption, which will modulate with time / date or something else to make decryption by unintended listeners practically impossible.

[@mastrsk8]

Careful! Next thing you know you’ll be poisoned.

[@jplacido9999]

😂😂😂😂

[@zoneundertop]

CIA active agents in Russia, well they accepted consequences of their action, especially after been told several times.

[@kenosabi]

Corny.

[@johnq8792]

...by the party who claims it was the others

[@andrzej3511]

One thing is certain for me: no one ever sends coded signals without reason and without need... And since they are encoded, the intentions of such "senders" are certainly not as pure as the tear of the Virgin of Orleans.

[@bombfog1]

I’ve really appreciated the Meshtastic content as I’d resigned myself to the belief that government had absolute dominance over comms.

[@kamiochambless2590]

Numbers stations are so creepy and cool!

[@lexinexi-hj7zo]

5:10 why would dpnk jam a CODAR signal? Isnt it just for weather ,ocean waves and I guess research or meteorological services? What military importance would that be? Unless its making a harmonic thats getting in the way of one of their signals but then why not just change the signal frequency?

[@veuzou]

I can hear Russian patriotic songs/anthem on various CB/pirate frequencies those days, 27.555, 260 MHz SatCom, etc. don't think they are played by official services though.

[@Dimensvlz]

I believe, Katyusha song was transmitted by someone else and not by Russian militaries. Thank you for the video, DE M7VLG, 73!

[@lexinexi-hj7zo]

I live on the coast of maryland USA and the only numbers station I hear with a good SDR, and a very long wire antenna. I put a 8' copper ground out the window and ran coax to a wire at some multiple wave length so I could get 3-7 mhz. I attached it to my roof then shot an arrow with the other end into a tree top 50' up, with a Balun and matching SWR. I found it was cuba because radio havana had the exact same signal and noise as the number station. I thought they were even on the same antenna mast. This was before there were good youtubes on the subject. I dont think my antenna was directional at that huge length. But try as I could with different length and orientations I could never get any others even at twilight, when I could get India, which sounds like soviet radio broadcasts.

[@petevannuys5642]

Support for portable sw radio 📻 isn't going on at too noisy interference signal 😢

[@anthonyfranz8317]

Another outstanding product! I can hear the Japanese slot machine in the mornings here in Florida. About 4 freqs in the 8000khz band and one in the 4000khz band. I programmed the new Russian ones in my SDR. I will let you know if I hear those. HM01 comes in well here as expected as it is about 400 to 500 miles from me. Keep up the good work!

[@wtf2203]

What immediately came to mind was the image of a get-away driver outside a bank, motor idling & ready to go at a moment's notice.

[@Sterlingjob]

Anyone know any good stations between 6 and 25khz? At work I like to tune in but haven’t heard anyone yet!

[@davebrunker3399]

Thank you for this. After months of trying to hear it again, I'd assumed that HM01 was dead and gone forever.

[@ronz101]

Nice rig. Really cleans up a signal. Glad you faithfully monitor and much more. 🎉

[@mateorodriguez9523]

I'm in the states here in Arkansas and been picking up 652 mHz Cuba and 940 mHz a Hong Kong channel which sometimes is 940 mHz wrmi okeechobee fl america. With cheap loop rabbit ear antenna I believe I picked up Tunisa it was in arabic. Hard pressed to pick up U.K. stations, but with the right conditions maybe I might get lucky again one night!

[@Boodieman72]

Even number stations need maintenance and upgrades :)

[@raymondmartin6737]

Anything out of Russia is strange. 😊

[@jmcpherson]

Perhaps, but there was a time not long ago when you could stream television from thaere and they did have some shows that were far better than anything on US broadcast television/Hollywierd. .

[@geksogen123]

Anything out of Russia is creepy military shit

[@WRXMSK]

It's just your way of viewing it. Russia is absolutely normal country. More normal than many if not all Western countries with their 33 genders.

[@UniquelyUnseen]

As someone with a passing interest in radio, how do you manage to figure out these marker stations are Russian in origin? Is it through a history of what Russians previously broadcast? As an untrained person, I'd just assume the signal was pointed in my direction due to strength, but nothing else.

[@yeroca]

There are two ways I know of. One is to listen to the signal from many different SDRs located around the world, and try and figure out roughly where the signal is coming from from those different signal strengths, while taking into account the skywave versus groundwave propagation, differnt antennas, etc. The other way is kind of related, but requires synchronized receivers located in many parts of the world. The receivers can measure the exact time difference between receiving the signals. Radio waves travel very fast, but over 1000km, it takes about 330 microseconds, which is something that can be measured quite readily. Still it's not a technically easy task due to noise, different signal strengths, etc. and requires at least three receivers to narrow down the area to a general location. And the closer those receivers are to the transmitter, the more accurate the calculation is. Since there are no such receivers in Russia, you have to use recievers which are outside and therefore probably quite far away from the transmitters, making the calculation of location less precise. Those are the technical ways to do it, and of course historical information can be valuable too, as you mentioned.

[@3rdalbum]

0:58 That's the noises from the starship Enterprise bridge!

[@li2uo]

Really good military signal intelligence study! Something never really reported on.

[@DnBclassictunes]

Putin's heartbeat monitor

[@EvilBrit89]

4:35 - All the Inference are the boats they choose to ignore

[@dondrapersayswhat]

I'm confused by the data transfers on HM01. They sound like one of those old 1200 baud modems. How can the signal be clear enough to get the data across without any corruption? Am I just mistaken that the signal has to have no background noise for it to work?

[@CUnger]

System Perimtr has been activated in High Alert.

[@wizzkidelectronics]

ive been noticing noises seems to be digital just below the us cb band no idea what it is seems very intermittent ill try to video it next time

[@g4lmn-ron401]

Although I have a full ham radio licence, and enjoy transmitting and contacts, I am predominantly a listener, there are so many interesting signals.

[@RingwayManchester]

Me too, the Icom 7300’i have has never transmitted

[@g4lmn-ron401]

That's hardcore listening!@@RingwayManchester

[@1089John]

I suppose it makes a change from listening to drunk Russians yelling at each other on various frequencies.

[@Dimensvlz]

7050, 7055 became quite again, at least I don’t hear anyone on these frequencies when I am on air. In the past I agree it was horrible when Russian and Ukrainian HAMs yelled to each other.

[@AuTo69420]

5:55 There be data in that

[@annnnonnymous]

Ive only recently discovered your channel (looking for some lora tips) and have enjoyed all the videos Ive watched so far. This is my first time on a new signals video and with as fascinating as numbers stations are this really scratched an itch. Cheers from the US!

[@happyacidburn6020]

Díky za info👍

[@jimgraham6722]

Thanks, as an amateur radio operator, these days I mainly use JS8 on HF. It operates at up to 25db below the noise floor and is not easily detected on a standard broadcast receiver. As little as ten Watts enables global communications. It's a different world down below the noise.

[@XJwolf4]

Does anything happen if you try to transmit back to them?

[@bob_mosavo]

Thanks 👍

[@raymondmartin6737]

Maybe the beeping is Russian version of WWV or CHU? Does anybody know what time it is? Remember at 0000 GMT is the big HF contest.😊

[@user-qg6yf1pu4l]

I get it too, especially with a Long Wire. Also 6322KHZ has intermittent voices (Male)

[@AFNacapella]

Japanese Slotmachine could also be an open mic next to a needle printer

[@jonnojamwood]

Great content. Well done sir from Australia

[@davidl.4690]

CODAR + Jammer = Space Laser Battle

[@CathodeRayNipplez]

What is the point of these markers (what are they for / do)?

[@RingwayManchester]

To keep a frequency clear

[@brianmorris8045]

🎼🎶Calling occupants of interplanetary craft.🎵

[@chaosopher23]

The first one that appears sounds like a modem in between the markers. That Russian folk song might be a signal itself, or its noise has data buried in it. I gotta fix this Hammarlund!

[@sondrayork6317]

I just heard that signal back in January from here in the United States. It’s really eerie sounding to say the least.

[@davidhelmes9587]

I appreciate your time doing these videos (usa)

[@tohellwithhandles]

Your voice instantly reminded me of Joe blogs 😂

[@markharpen7417]

Thank you Sir. Great content!

[@thormusique]

Great stuff, Lewis! I'll have to give these a listen. The Russian signal is truly a weird one. Cheers!

[@tomcook5813]

That first one sounds like Dr Mccoy’s triquarter from the original Star Trek 😀

[@apathtrampledbydeer8446]

I get a wierd nostalgic feeling aboutlistening to these wierd radio transmitions.

[@wukket]

I LOVE swling in Colorado! In about an hour, I can drive to the top of this mountain pass at 10,280 ft above sea level. And after throwing my wire antenna up a tree, the entire world opens up. I’ve heard so much up there.

[@gordslater]

Katyusha is now a channel marker like the rest

[@iantaylor7596]

Oh those Russians 😂

[@Milcom34]

Thanks RM. Another Most Awesome Video and Shortwave Info***** Take Care.

[@joeblow229]

I really enjoyed researching the old "Numbers Stations", and Cold War era spy stuff. Fun thinking about it making a comeback :)

[@RicnHermano]

That song i hear sometimes russians sing at the front to inow if the “enemy” is pro russian or not.

[@PenryMMJ]

I always thought Katiowa (Katyusha) was a Ukrainian song, though Ukraine was of course in the USSR when it became popular. Leeds indy rockers The Wedding Present released it on a B-side in the 90's. Their guitarist's dad was from Ukraine.

[@Tommyboy30]

Did you hear about the 200 foot radio tower that was stolen in Jasper Alabama

[@IM1deadMONEY]

It's so amazing to think all they need is a little SDR stick, a length of wire, and a secret email from Russia, Cuba, or wherever. And then they have the means to decode a digital mode that exists nowhere else😮😮😮

[@bigolboomerbelly4348]

Sdr is nutty

[@M6RDPadam]

Awesome. Really interested and inspired me. Thks. 73

[@3rdalbum]

Rather than targetting the UK, could those stations be targeting Transnistria? (A weird Russian enclave/colony situated in Moldova)

[@RingwayManchester]

I didn’t say targeting the UK, I said targeting the direction of the uk more than the second (Western Europe)

[@3rdalbum]

@@RingwayManchester Sorry mate, I misheard.

[@pc4ad]

Found another today one at 6218 USB, 10 dB weaker than the one on 6230

[@r00tyschannel52]

I found six in total. 5780 5838 6218 6230 6402 6930. All vary depending on the listening location.

[@alainbroekema5000]

Interesting Lewis !

[@spartan.falbion2761]

I heard this 'beeping marker. Wow. I've become an SW nerd :)

[@Alexagrigorieff]

That sounds like some QAM. I'm sure somebody decoded the bit stream (but it's most likely encrypted)

[@lordtherapeutics]

Never heard HMO1 from Norfolk England- this has inspired me to have another crack at her!

[@SpecialGuestStar]

I don't wanna disappoint you Lewis, but most of these new "markers" quickly turn out to be just the result of pirates and trolls messing with us. There was one on 3238, too, and there's an active one on 5780. After monitoring them for a few days, you'll realise that they just steal markers from various, actual Russian frequencies. Unfortunately, none of these new findings can be trusted due to massively increased pirate activity in the past year or two.

[@RingwayManchester]

You’re absolutely right!

[@yeroca]

It would be an interesting project to use TDOA transmitter location to filter out the "real" signals from the pirate ones.

[@RingwayManchester]

The tdoa on these markers pointed towards the buzzer site

[@yeroca]

@@RingwayManchesterSo they in fact are real, then!

[@paulstringer7083]

R these real or fake

[@Colin.T.]

6230 USB Is blasting my windows out here in North Scotland. I'm using a 50mts Long Wire home made.

[@kcmatloff5707]

0:57 to 1:10 my cats all ran into the room and stared at the tv, they didnt like that russian channel marker.

[@kcnmsepognln]

Your cats are sleepers and have now been instructed to push everything off the table...

[@TheOneTrueDragonKing]

So you've got the Beeper, the Splat, and the Katyusha. Huh.

[@SteveH-TN]

One my favorite things to listen to was shortwave before I became an Amateur Radio Operator. However occasionally I still listen 😜😝👀

[@chrisg1234fly]

and if i wanted to buy a short wave radio, what do i buy??? thx

[@TimVoktwo]

Nobody has the monopoly on radio waves. Anything goes.

[@Nikolas_GQ]

I have seen them on (3363 can be died or is only on nighttime), 5780, (6180 is dead), 6218, 6230, (6322 moved to 6330), 6402, 6930, (9455 is dead) (New Markers aka beepers) Edit: Edits are for updates

[@emendymedia]

Love this channel. Is there anyway I could download the audio used from the clips you have? Also I’m looking to get a SW receiver, but have no idea where to start. A video on recommendations and budget would be great! Just a suggestion thanks for your hard work

[@yorkiedanMC]

Just Sputnik making a fly by haha

[@winstonchurchill6506]

Sounds like des O'conner to me singing...have a nice weekend sir

[@bedientvondeutschland1779]

The Chica Cuban Signal is also use during daytime at different frequencys. I hear the file transfers very often. Do you know the Op mode used for this?

[@raulgonzalez7108]

Does anyone know the version of Katyusha that is played at 3:32 ?

[@crizioclips]

NICE!

[@RicoChicoMan]

Это сигнал о начале строительства Дирижабля Киров!!

[@88KeysOnFire]

I hear the slot machine all the time. I have picked up only once a very strange signal, possibly an experimental data mode, while I didn't capture the audio, I did capture the audio waveform of the signal which is also as unlike any seen before, utilizing a very wide bandwidth.