DISCLAIMER

DISCLAIMER: I have no association with UVB-76 station, neither do I have any clue what is the content I am relaying. I can only assure, that the signal is received on 4.625MHz AM-modulated 900km NW from supposed origin and retransmitted unaltered. In no way can I guarantee this service, nor be considered responsible of any content re-transmitted. The only purpose for this relay to exist is because lot of people who do not have equipment or are located too far from station seem to be interested about listening to it. Should the UVB-76 station- or transmission content owners feel violated in any way, please contact me at uvb76.repeater@gmail.com and we will work it out.

Note, that because of shortwave radio signal propagation specifics the station can be more or less reliably received from around 4pm to 6am GMT on summertime. It is almost 24h audible during the winter, with short "skip-zone" blank-out around 6pm GMT.

The USB feed is considered as main source of audio today, as the voice messages are much better audible there than on the AM stream. However, the buzzer sound from the AM stream is somewhat more pleasant to listen at, so both feeds are kept simultaneously.

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

25 Years from Chernobyl

Early morning 25 years ago, on April 26, 1986 the accident at Chernobyl power plant rendered the large area in Ukraine (part of the USSR back then) a nuclear wasteland.

From radio communications perspective, this location has also another outstanding object of interest - the notorious "Russian Woodpecker", located within 30km evacuation zone of the plant.



(Picture from http://www.blankheads.com/)
Posted by Laid at 1:03 PM

1 comments:

  1. FYI from gwraspe.blogspot as it is your repeater I am currently working from;

    01/05/11 timezone - coordinated UTC
    20:48 buzzer changed, it is now raised by a semi-tone
    20:50 some buzzes dropping slightly in pitch at the end or vibrating throughout
    20:54 buzzer returned to previous pitch
    21:02 buzzer changed, it is now raised by a semi-tone
    some minor pitch modulation throughout
    21:32 buzzer returned to previous pitch
    21:59 buzzer changed, it is now raised by a semi-tone
    22:01 buzzer returned to previous pitch
    22:02 buzzer changed, it is now raised by a semi-tone
    22:03 buzzer returned to previous pitch
    22:10 buzzer raised pitch for one note then returned to normal

    EDIT 02/05/2011 timezone - coordinated UTC
    11:18 buzzer dropped off in pitch at end of a buzz and fell silent
    11:19 buzzer returned to functionality, no voice message audibly transmitted

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