As far as I know it is an actual signal some tornado sirens in the US use. Search for alternate or hi-lo wail here on YT.

Federal Signal - Alternate wail

Yes there's one about 3 miles from me

its also a sound used in old videos games such as grand theft auto for a broken police car siren.

yes i was just about to say the same thing!!

"Russia was a hostile and mystical place where no one would ever dare leave or enter into" So right. It's difficult to explain the way people perceived life behind 'The Iron Curtain' back then. My mum was a scientist of modest note particularly among Eastern Bloc academics [1] and consequently she received many official invites to go on exchange visits and lecture tours behind The Curtain. On one occasion in the mid 1960s when she visited Moscow, she took a Standard 8 Bell & Howell movie camera (silent) and shot footage of Red Square, Lenin's Tomb, the incredible 'GUM' department store and so on. The results were terrible (this were not a Plug n Play, user friendly device - like most tech back then) but everybody and his dog back in the UK wanted to see the movies because people here just couldn't imagine that a Westerner could even go there, let alone make home movies. Literally hundreds of people must have passed through our crude home cinema. So rare were genuine professional visits to the Eastern Bloc that frequent visitors were sometimes asked by our security services to do a bit of amateur espionage there - deliver a package, meet with someone, get a delivery or a verbal report about something and so on. This is what Greville Wynn was doing when he and Col. Penkovsky (KGB) were blown (November 1962) - Wynn spending some uncomfortable time in the Gulags and the hapless Penkovsky presumed executed. I often wondered whether Mum ever did that sort of thing. She was an ideal courier. [1] She died in 1984 having received, inexplicably, a Polish Wikipedia page - the only one. How odd. pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brenda_E._Ryman

@@alastairbarkley6572 She has an English and a French article as well (omitting middle initial in title).

On a serious note, there have been a number of reports of British academics etc that were secret agents in the Cold War that never told their families and the true story only came out after their death

​@@alastairbarkley6572 What a terrific story, especially for me as I was in Moscow several times during those Soviet days. Yes it was exactly like that.

​@@alastairbarkley6572 Wikipedia lists her death in 1983.

@RingwayManchester this comment deserves to be pinned more than mine.

As if tornados weren't scary enough. That's a pretty good siren.

and nothing you could find about it in the local library. Calling back on your illegal cb with 500W amplifier didnt have any result also Scary yes, but still searching for signals every evening

I'm glad I'm not the only one that gets creeped out by this stuff. I can't listen to these videos when I'm falling asleep. 😬

@@RiffZifnab i CAN listen to them now and in fact have the entire Conet Project box set plus extras. I was fascinated and of course, no way to get info on them those two nights. Sometimes late at night I can get a bit oogly headed listening but that's okay, its nice that it still gets under my skin. When I first stumbled over info on numbers stationis and put two to two together... well, that was it. Then I wanted to know more and more. LOL! ahhhh, such a glorious sinkhole.

As a child of 1972 I completely understand what you’re saying. It’s so crazy because it really was a scary time to be alive, and at the same time it was so exciting. Especially down here in New Orleans because a lot of people didn’t know that New Orleans was quite the little hotspot at times because of it being a major port in the Gulf of Mexico, the river, and because of the Air Station here to. We use to watch completely blacked out airplanes late at night or in the early early morning hours between midnight and 3 am. My family are all cops and my uncle Mike who was like the super cop type because he was a homicide detective, and a member of SWAT. Because our swat team for the NOPD also worked their regular police department jobs, and when he transferred out of homicide he was technically assigned to motor pool because he was building a remote control system for an unmarked police car that was used in hostage situations. All while working on the department’s communications systems so he got into the number stations more or less as a hobby, but was able to use the network towers the department had to listen in to them. Personally my knowledge of ham radio and such, but his son and me were the same age so we would stay at each other’s houses on the weekend’s, and he would show us and let us listen to them with him. An of course to us kids he was like Q from James Bond Movies. Sorry for the long comment about this. It’s just the video and your post brought back so many memories that I really haven’t thought about in probably 20 years give or take. Think I need to call my uncle and see how he’s doing

@janedagger Same here, my friend, out on eastern Long Island as well. I spent many late nights as a teen back in the 80's searching for and listening to those creepy number stations. I distinctly remember the sensation of the hair standing up on the back of my neck one night, trying to make sense of what the heck I was listening to.

How does that work?

​@@crazyskyguy The Dead Hand protocol - if the control stations go quiet, it is assumed that Mission Control has been eliminated by the enemy, so launch all nuclear warheads

Ohh that is creepy... I would think that it means those stations is part of the automated Russian "Dead Hand" system meant to launch all their nukes if the signals stop (as they assume they are destroyed by nukes). Problem is that if for example you have a huge solar storm like "the Carrington" event the signals will also stop.

@@scrambledmandible ​Supposedly the Royal Navy uses BBC Radio 4's longwave transmission as a kind of "dead hand" signal...

@@scrambledmandible aaah that bullshit again :)

Thanks mate!!

Yeah, I used to be a calibration tech. Before we had atomic clocks we would run our counters using a Radio Clock Signal, as you describe, to run a comparison tape to our counter, and we'd tweak the Timebase of the Counter until the tape indicator would be running dead center showing no deviation. I knew guys that would disconnect the deviation meter's needle so that it would just hang dead dog in the middle to draw a straight line on the tape, but heck, you'll always have some timebase deviation, and all you have to do is touch the needle with your finger to know it's just hanging dead dog. But, nowadays, they can build atomic clocks the size of a 8 legged chip. Take care. It's great to see that soimebody like you is monitoring the World.

@@leovolont wow what wonderful info! THANK YOU for sharing! I cant take credit for "monitoring the world", I think the person behind this video channel gets the credit for that! But I do like to share where I can. Old guys like us should really be sharing our experience with the old technology before we pass away, like to put our stories and tech knowlege up on the internet so it can be there for future generations. 👍

Every grid powered qould just use the grid tho. The frequency is pretty deliberatly kept constant. Having a second value to cross reference if needed or when off grid sure might come in handy

@@TV4ELP in some countries the grid keeps good time, in other countries not so much. With things like military bases and small installations they could be off grid or prepared to be off grid at any time.

@@TV4ELP For electronic counters with just ordinary accuracy, such as plus or minus 1 hz for 10 MHZ, you need better accuracy than the Municiple 60 Hz. Remember that Europe uses 50Hz for the same applications, and so the Frequency of Line power can be all over the place without it ever mattering. Also, frequencies, for calibration have to be traceable to some standard. The Radio Frequencies ARE cerrtified, and so the calibrator can submit the identification of the Radio Broadcaster, along with his deviation comparison tape record, in the counters certification file. Image using the local Union Operated Municiple Power Plant as a Calibration Standard... the Calibrator would be looking for a new job the next time he, or the Counter he calibrated, gets audited.. Yeah, Metrology is a Science and so Calibrators don't, and can't screw around.

Funny enough, in case you want to listen to said song, it's from a song called "Epic" by TheFatRat.

​@@zachjeffcoat7936I like Monody.

sound like straight outa backrooms

Russians used the ticking clock before in the Battle of Stalingrad.

@@simplygreen5832 Makes sense then, fits the narrative Russia is pushing trying to draw analogies to WW2 with their current war. Possibly even hoping it will add to their verbal nuke threats?

​@@simplygreen5832yes, if I remember correctly after the 6th army and part of the 4th Panzer army were surrounded in Stalingrad the Red Army played the ticking clock noise 24\7 over loudspeakers with the occasional message "Every 30 seconds a German soldier dies in Russia." Or something to that effect.

ticking clock is a time hack for navigation, we used it in flying all the time

@@bluskytoo I noticed yesterday watching the Russian Victory Day parade, that during their minute of silence, they also had a ticking clock and it was similar: Reverberating and not a real clock, i.e. the ticks didn't alternate as from a real clock mechanism but were similar rhythmic taps. Worth checking if the Ticking clock signal is the exact same as the audio played at the parade.

The ice cream man from hell

Nah. It's more a obliks

@@ellouco1020 I'm can't hear anything else than "oblicz" no matter how I try. Maybe there is some other explanation, but it doesn't sound like eng. oblique and definitely not like obliks

But where's Astrix and Getafix?

Sneaky is correct here, I'm Polish and it's obviously saying "oblicz" (eng. "Calculate")

Oblique means "to the side"

Are you new here? Lewis has explained his use of stock footage many, many times. Actually, some of the 'stock' footage is his own - breathtakingly good drone footage of the English countryside, for example.

@@alastairbarkley6572 No, i am not a new viewer, and i personally would prefer a caption that states what tower is showing. even for the stock footage, as i am genuinely curious.

He might do, but Lewis is a busy chap, and afministration is something he can do without I suppose...😂

​@@TheOzarkWizardhe seems to always state the name of whatever installation is in the photo when it is shown

​@@alastairbarkley6572 You do realise new people are allowed to watch these videos and it's easy to see at least one 'new' person may see at least one of these videos every single day?

More likely in the UK for the signal to come in that strong. "Jamming" the buzzer is completely pointless.

@@oggaBuggaI don’t know about completely, the buzzing is there to generally keep the band clear and jamming it keeps the band not clear. The issue is that for jamming a marker to be useful it has to be very persistent.

@@MultiPureEnergy"Jamming" keeps the band clear.....

@@oggaBugga OH, I agree that it is pointless. I was just thinking the Ukraines might be motivated to try and annoy Russia.

@@kellingc Maybe. But it would be like trying to annoy the US by buying a Kia instead of a Dodge. No one of importance would even notice.

That's a great story. There's still a fair amount on HF but I get ALOT of traffic from China

@@Jeff-sp7bg Yeah, not nearly as much as when I was a kid but I still pick up Radio China (mainland and Taiwan) in English and of course Cuba. Also there's a high powered station in Florida (WRMI) that broadcast programs from various European Countries on 9955 khz and 9455 khz. 8-)

Shortwave is more relevant than ever but you just can’t “dive in”. You do need to know time of day, versus the frequency. Higher frequencies work better in daylight, lower (below 10 MHz) work better in darkness conditions. There are other variables. I can hear AIR traffic (which is sporadic) at about 8900 kHz. The hobby is not dead, but you have to search through the bands and above all, be patient.

@@RJDA.Dakota Thanks, but you're preaching to the choir, mate. I've been a diehard SWL'er for well over 50 years now. Christ, I'm old! ;-)

Do a Google on "June Taylor", who was Tirana's main announcer in Cold War days. Her story is interesting - a New Zealander of Maori origin, adopted daughter of a left-wing dentist, who ended up reading dreary propaganda for years in a tinpot dictatorship on the other side of the world.

I do, on a tiny C Crane Skywave SSB, east coast of the US. That's exactly what it reminds me of, too, although I didn't start listening until the late '70s. I always wonder if VOA copied that slick manner, or if propaganda just oozes out that way over the radio...

Yes and also North Korea on 12015kHz although CRI sometimes broadcast on the same frequency, it's fun hearing how productivity and food production is at an all time record, it reminds me of the USSR propoganda in the 1970s where the claimed tractor production figures would mean everyone had one lol.

Haha, I used to listen to Radio Moscow in the '80s...

How are things changing really? Now propaganda and fake news are the merit of the West.

Yeah they're effectively jamming a jammer.

If you jam it continually, wouldn't you affect both the buzz and any message transmission? Because that's probably easier than trying to guess when they'll send a message.

The slight problem is knowing the buzzer's transmission schedule...

This is a braindead comment 😂😂😂 if the channel is being jammed, no one can use it?

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Do u still hear the nightly one with the female voice in spanish? I'm in the US west coast

Yeah, would make sense if the numbers were in Polish, but the numbers are read in english prolly for multinational use

That specific one is a Federal Signal Modulator running alt wail, if I remember the signal name right.

The only Thunderbolts that could produce alternate wail were 1003s, as they were the only ones with solenoid shutters. The audio here, though, is from something electronic, most likely a Modulator, though one could probably get an EOWS-series to produce it, as well

Oblique or cherta. Means stroke or slash.

Definitely "oblicz" - calculate.

Thank you!

Great stuff Adam cheers!

@@RingwayManchester Always Lewis!! Watching and listening until the bombs drop 😉

That’s true but the sound is used in siren head videos

CB band is unlicensed amateur band, so you hear random stuff over there, voice, Morse, pirate music and whatnot.