The year 2016 was full of surprises... One of them that our beloved UVB-76 the Buzzer, the star of the Russian military shortwave network no longer calls himself Mihail, Dimitri, Zhena, Boris of MDZhB but since last week of 2015 now starts its messages with Zhena, Ulyana, Olga, Zinaida or ZhUOZ. What made the Russian communications force command change the name for its Western military district command center is a mystery. MDZhB was in use since 2010 when Buzzer or Жужжалка as Russians call it dropped its original callsign UZB-76. One logical explanation was that its five year cycle and the station had to change its call sign. That was not the sole change for buzzer observed this year. By staying true to its original frequency 4625 kHz, it also broadcasts on 6998 kHz and can be heard on 9250 kHz. The ever expanding Russian military seems to require more frequencies to reach their buzzer from faraway locations. Also a interesting pattern has been noticed in message codewords or monoliths - they are no longer known nouns from Russian language dictionary, that for some reason on most part was terms from botanical or chemical dictionaries. Now instead of one noun word there are compound words; often gibberish and unintelligible. 2016 was also full of message marathon events of more than 2 messages in a day and reaching record of more than 10 messages in a single day. Usual days for messages to appear was Monday and Thursday. A military insider from Russian army is needed to explain these interesting changes how the buzzer worked this year. Since 2013 I have gathered a report of all captured messages on the 4625 kHz and now a list of recorded messages is again here for you. All the recordings, except one are from numbers-stations.com database and are mad by me. When its possible a translation for code word is provided, but don't take these meanings too directly.
How it all begun...
December 28 2015 16:28
ZhUOZ 92 002 AGATU 56 88 48 32This is first known message in late 2015 when Buzzer used ZhUOZ in the message opening. Prior to that it sent a few messages starting with Katok-65. From that day on buzzer used the new call sign ZhUOZ. (Recording from UVB-76. net stream archive)
Агату means Agatha in third person
January 7 2016 12:41
ZhUOZ 99 547 EVTINIJa 91 31 72 65
January 7 2016 12:41
ZhUOZ 99 547 EVTINIJa 91 31 72 65
ЕВТИНИЯ a word in Bulgarian
January 7 2016
90 279 GEL' 68 70 56 76Гел means gel
January 10 2016 13:31
49 441 SDANNYJ 45 21 00 65 25 172 AGREKOLIT 65 06 50 58СДАННЫЙ means given and АГРЕКОЛИТ means agrecolyte
January 16 2016
90 474 DINGI 66 77 85ДИНГИ means Dinghy
January 14 2016 14:34
30 191 TIMEJKA 31 03 39 45ТИМЕЙКА a word with no real meaning, but used in messages in previous years
Hardly readable message
January 28 2016 12:15
КИЗЯК means dry animal dung fuel and СИЗАЛь means Sisal
February 21 2016 12:23
One of first the gibberish compound words
March 10 2016 14:12
БАПТИСТСКИЙ means Baptist
March 21 2016 16:34
73 547 KUHONNYJ 94 77 20 33КУХОННЫЙ- word associated with kitchen furniture
March 31 9:45
43 719 DEROZhAR 37 77 92 55March 31 14:30
49 821 ADAMIT 78 86 30АДАМИТ means adamite
April 3 13:05
88 269 KON'JUNKTsIJA 31 19 63 15Конъю́нкция means logical conjunction
КАЛАЧОК is Geranium flower
April 7 2016 12:58
67 500 BEZDOZhD'Je 28 74 52 19 БЕЗДОЖДьЭ means rainless
April 7 12:35
Hardly readable
April 14 2016 17:02
18 626 BRAKOChES 51 01 63 06May 9 2016 12:49
18 527 KOKSOHIMIJA 52 21 52 49Message was not fully recorded.
Hardly readable
May 19 2016 15:55
19 939 KLEJKOVINA 79 18 19 19 КЛЕЙКОВИНА means gluten
Badly readable
July 4 15:57
July 4 16:12
69 828 VIMSOVAL 55 67 59 07July 11 2016 08:46
78 586 IRONGANG 70 45 67 77 LASTOLET 77 49 09 17 IZNOS 47 89 57ИЗНОС means wear for tires
July 11 10:42
45 40 40 40 ANGELChUK 41 43 49July 11 2016 12:08
62 070 ZOBOPOLK 90 86 60 79July 25 2016 13:39
94 914 ATOLLOVYJ 60 79 95АТОЛЛОВЫЙ means atol
July 25 2016 15:17
89 285 BAULOBYK 53 57 71 19 BUKVOED 40 68 55 46
July 27 2016 11:32
69 138 KARTING 82 17 24 19 42 215 ZABORChIK 84 48 55 97 96 383 KUSOTsENT 68 56 19 20КАРТИНГ means carting ЗАБОРЧИК means fence
July 28 2016 11:45
10 444 DJURALJUMINIJ 36 41 50 48ГРЕЧАНКА means Greek woman
August 1 2016 13:05
43 295 AZOTOSAD 17 60 88 68August 4 2016 16:13
71 372 ERES' 62 04 71 60ЕРЕСь means heresy
August 4 2016 16:19
50 343 LEEROPUAZ 31 32 53 87August 8 2016 16:27
30 793 BIL'YaRD 13 95 25 60
ВЫРУС means virus
August 11 2016 13:32
47 216 GORODETsKIJ 12 52 94 33September 15 2016
дислокатсия means dislocation
September 15 2016
0 328 IRTYShSKIJ 85 38 67 28ИРТЫШСКИЙ a name for some places in Russia
September 15 2016
September 15 2016 9:52
40 059 BUNDOSONYa 10 36 89 08September 15 2016 10:45
55 161 LENOLYaD 70 24 25 96September 15 2016 11:45
81 532 ZYuJD 31 68 77 64ЗЮЙД means south wind
September 15 2016 11:56
September 15 2016 12:45
78 419 ZNAKOPARK 27 45 82 92 ЗНАКОПАРК means park of signs
September 15 19:59
46 766 KOBOKYuRI 32 67 18 68September 15 2016 20:06
54 046 ZEMLEVED 40 97 55 73September 19 2016 16:54
61 832 BRATISLAVA 48 92 53 62 80 851 KADRONAST 81 38 28 60БРАТИСЛАВА is Bratislava capital of Slovakia
September 22 13:41
October 7 2016 07:57
18 295 VNUKOTEIN 92 61 34 72; 95 398 GROGOPLYuShch 43 58 64 96October 17 2016 13:26
76 447 BONOKhRUShch 32 54 46 27October 17 13:43
00 920 AULOTORS 56 04 16 39 36 015 BALKONNYJ 99 67 46 19БАЛКОННЫЙ means balcony
October 17 2016 13:57
87 150 KLEShchOPOST 60 32 60 12October 17 2016 15:29
32 321 GEKTOGRAF 47 97 16 45ГЕКТОГРАФ means hectograph
October 17 2016 15:40
October 17 2016 15:50
October 17 2016 16:24
ZhUOZ 05 623 VYMETAN'E 30 34 48 72October 17 2016 16:57
54 363 ISTUPLENIE 06 25 46 64ИССТУПЛЕНИЕ means frenzy
October 17 2016 17:20
70 262 KEPLER 74 87 79 99КЕПЛЕР the Johannes Kepler the famous astronomer
October 17 2016 17:41
16 901 BOLOPEK 43 72 73 56October 17 2016 17:46
66 452 KEBOShchlAG 94 34 49 97October 20 2016
84 480 AZOTOLEShch 75 99 74 20 19 154 ATOMOVKUS 37 85 01 53
АТОМОВКУС means atomic taste
October 20 2016 16:00
73 912 VOZDUKhODUV 75 74 25 66 ZhUOZ 29 047 GRAChOGONG 30 45 52 41October 20 2016 1609
44 931 ANTROPOLOG 24 56 14 95 05 251 VAKUOLYa 76 14 64 67АНТРОПОЛОГ means antropologus
October 23 2016 10:32
95 117 DAL'NOST' 63 73 28 90ДАЛьНОСТь means far away
October 31 2016 09:23
15 362 DOLOKhUK 55 28 69 89 75 673 VKhODONOZh 32 26 47 68October 31 2016 11:52
98 915 BISYuL'FAT 39 95 20 30October 31 2016 13:15
54 083 GNETOTEMP 79 34 05 10November 10 2016 13:44
November 14 2016
November 17 2016 12:32
02 139 KUKhONNYJ 94 77 70 37November 17 2016 12:33
10 410 BREMEN 64 95 68 80 БРЕМЕН means Bremen in Germany
КАЗАЧОК is Slavic dance
November 28 2016 14:13
89 336 KON'YuNKTsIYa 31 19 63 15December 5 2016 12:59
December 8 2016 12:29
22 486 LEGKOKRYLYJ 13 52 34 62ЛЕГКОКРЫЛЫЙ means lightwinged
December 8 2016 13:39
86 987 BRAKOChES 51 01 83 0671 250 ZLOPOLUChNYJ 57 06 74 59
ЗЛОПОЛУЧНЫЙ means harmful
December 26 11:47
56 377 GAZOSLON 41 37 82 962016 was a busy year for its monitors and certainly not easy time for its stuff. We see meet again and the end of 2017 what hopes to be another intense and rich year of buzzer activity.
