“MDZhB” has been broadcasting since 1982. No one knows why.

One such idea is that it’s acting as a “Dead Hand” signal; in the event Russia is hit by a nuclear attack, the drone will stop and automatically trigger a retaliation. No questions asked, just total nuclear obliteration on both sides.

  • Steve Anonymous@lemmy.world
    10·
    8 months ago

    I bought a shortwave radio just to listen to number stations. There is an album iirc called the conet project that has a collection of them

    • PretentiousDouche@lemmy.sdf.org
      6·
      8 months ago

      Wilco used samples of it for their album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, the name of which comes from one of the clips. That got me into this whole phenomenon.