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Rimantas Pleikys

1957-11-25 - 2021-01-24 · Lithuanian broadcaster and ex-minister; author of Jamming (1998); channel-marker reading of the Buzzer

Broadcaster; the channel-marker reading of the Buzzer

Timeline - Pleikys in the record

3 referenced events from the UVB-76 - The Buzzer archive.

1989 Founds independent radio

Rimantas Pleikys founds M-1, Lithuania's first independent radio station, as the Soviet grip loosens. A broadcaster who has spent his life on the airwaves, he understands jamming and clandestine radio from the inside.

1996 Minister of Communications

Pleikys becomes Lithuania's Minister of Communications and Informatics, and in 1998 publishes 'Jamming', a detailed study of how the Soviet Union tried to smother foreign broadcasts, and of the utility signals, like the Buzzer, that filled the bands.

2005 The channel-marker reading

Pleikys is associated with the sober explanation of the Buzzer: not a doomsday trigger but a military channel marker, keeping a frequency occupied and confirming that receiving operators are awake. It is the interpretation most monitors now accept.

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