,aybe the solar flare knocked it out

Never heard of this before, so first of all thanks to the OP for posting this.

My own thoughts on this is theyre either updating the signal (going digital) or there simply isnt any use for it now. Its understandable it taking so long to switch off if it was a 'cold war' warning system, the russians are probably the most nervous of the super powers IMO.

Originally posted by Hypntick

since 1982 = 32 years?

I'm older than I thought I was I guess.

Did some reading on these things a while back. Pretty crazy stuff, would be wacky if it started back up all the sudden. Who knows what it could mean, but it's fun to speculate.

28 years...

Thank you for pointing that out.

Originally posted by Catch_a_Fire
Never heard of this before, so first of all thanks to the OP for posting this.

My own thoughts on this is theyre either updating the signal (going digital) or there simply isnt any use for it now. Its understandable it taking so long to switch off if it was a 'cold war' warning system, the russians are probably the most nervous of the super powers IMO.

But the thing is this is a military transmission from when Russia was still the Communist regime, so why would it be used still after 19 years since the so called "coup" in 1991?

This means this military transmission which was began when the Communist regime was still in power has been kept on transmitting even 19 years after the so called "Soviet coup."

Why would they keep a transmission from the Communist regime ongoing until recently?

If I'm not mistaken
this satellite was portrayed in the
hollywood movie directed by Clint
Eastwood entitled "Space Cowboys"
circa 2000.

From what I remember of the movie
the satellite had a dead man's switch
that if it didn't receive a signal back
then it fired it's nuclear payload at
pre-determined areas around the globe.
That was hollywood though, don't know
if the movie was based on the actual
Russian Satellite. But sometimes
hollywood can be quite detailed
in their portrayals (example "Titantic").

likely a spy station.

And likely replaced by the Internet.

I have heard that the image storage site "imgsrc.ru" is used to pass massages around the world now.

With the right software you can hide almost any information in a image.
and people from all over the world store photos on "imgsrc.ru" even porn.

if its hanging to the right it means yes and to the left means no.

I started looking to see when was it that the transmission stopped, but I don't see any other links that say this except for GLP...

Humm, where did the op get his info from?

Originally posted by Catch_a_Fire
This is what put me off the thought of it being a 'left over' or 'looped' transmission.

Well one account I read on this mystery transmission said that quite often very faint and muffled incomprehensible voices could be heard, some times faint 'movement' noises and the pulsing noise seemed to have a sort of 'mechanical' quality to it - if that makes sense, sort of like a device of some sort produced the noise and if was left in front of a live microphone.

The same account also detailed various attempts to locate the source of the transmitter, it was somewhere within a military base I think, so it was off limits to any nosey parkers... I will try to google for the exact article.

edit: nevermind

[edit on 6/5/2010 by smokecrops]