I found a Radio

[numerics 27]

I found a Radio earlier tonight about 3 hours ago at Green Mountain. It was the first time I've ever actually been over there and it was night time on the server so I didn't know what to expect. I saw a bunch of dead soldier corpses, scared me because I thought they were dead players until I got closer, I couldn't interact with any of the bodies on the ground except for one, which was a soldier, so I assume it was a zombie maybe, but I found a radio and 1 canned food which I really needed because when I logged on, my food icon was red.. anyways! I thought the radio was a beta item or something because I couldn't interact with it or do anything with it as far as I know, but like.. around 5 minutes later, I started hearing static, which I thought was coming from someone 'hot-mic'-ing but no ones mic was on that I could see, and after a few minutes I knew it wasn't proximity mic either, because the sound stayed at a steady volume, but it was just static for a really long time, so I alt-tabbed to check if I left a window open that was playing sound, but when I alt-tabbed, the sound stopped, so obviously it was in game.

I really didn't know it was coming from the radio at this point, I thought my audio was bugged, but a while passed with this static on, and I started hearing music, and it scared he hell out of me. I thought someone was near me, but I was in the middle of the woods, and I am usually paranoid enough to always check if someone is around me, but ya, the music started, it was like a short piano tune, and then it cut to what sounded like whispering and humming, I couldn't make it out at all. At this point I alt-tabbed out again to see if I left my music player up just to make sure, but nothing else was up except for Arma and Steam, and like before, the audio cut off when I alt tabbed, meaning that it was central to the game, not outside of the game. When I went back to the game, I heard counting, or like.. not really counting, but kinda like what the default soldiers do in Arma when they die? they kinda have this very pre-set and generic audio where they spurt out random numbers, but this reminded me more of Vanilla Sky, where they have weird ambient noise in the background sometimes with what sounds like a person saying numbers.

I didn't bother recording it initially because I really didn't care, I thought it was just ambient radio stuff that came along with having a radio, kinda adds to the ambience, you know? it kept going and I heard more voices occasionally, and weird beeps between each reading of numbers, and then either morse code or radio wave signals and then piano again, and then it stopped for a while, I just heard the white noise, which isn't that bad, but like... an hour after that, I heard it again, I *THINK* it was the same message. If it wasn't the same message, it was very similar. once again it scared the hell out of me when it started because I kinda forgot about it at this point lol, but it played again, I stopped doing what I was doing to actually listen this time, I wrote down some of the numbers, but I still can't make out anything else that is being said, it is really hard to hear. After that time of it playing, I kinda assumed it was going to play within the next hour again, so I started to record my audio while playing, I lowered all other audio channels so I could have a clear recording of it, and just as I expected, it started to play again, I'll link the recording with this post at the end, but can anyone help me figure out wtf it is?

I am willing to trade my radio for a silenced m4 or something, because this is kinda getting annoying at this point, I searched the forums for anything similar but there isn't anything relevant that shows up, does anyone else have a radio that can understand wtf this is?

Thanks for the help!

here's the link to the recording:

http://www.mediafire.com/?7d69d542amysnz8

[boxman80 964]

Cool find! Wonder what purpose it will serve!

[numerics 27]

Cool find! Wonder what purpose it will serve!

Ya I thought it was neat at first, but it playing all the time is drowning out any actual vital sound that I may need to hear, like if someone is sneaking up on me, or gunshots in the distance, I don't want to throw it away, but I might have to, maybe Rocket could make it where it is togglable or like people can turn it on and off, because it's stuck with the power on as it is now.

[Il Bandito 5]

That is some freaky UVB-76 shit right there. You can keep that radio.

[numerics 27]

That is some freaky UVB-76 shit right there. You can keep that radio.

what is UVB-76

[drakenof 9]

Pics or it didn't happen.

[numerics 27]

http://i.imgur.com/yUt6H.jpg this is where I found it btw, if anyone is interested, I don't know if you'll have the same 'luck' as I did, or if you're even interested, and it just played again about 8 minutes ago, and it is confirmed the same message on a loop, but it is still getting kinda redundant at this point.. it should at least be like fallout 3 where it is an actual radio station with music. Sorry for the profanity in the chat on the screenshot link, if it is against the rules, I'll remove the link.

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Pics or it didn't happen.

I just linked one in my last post about where I found it

edit: neat, instead of letting you make multiple posts, it merges all sequential posts together if no one posted after you. :D

[George (DayZ) 4]

Sounds like a recording from a number station : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station

Very interesting indeed....

[Casey (DayZ) 0]

Probably no use for it now, but when devs add more features, these radios could be used for side missions etc... Voice says to go to certain place...

[numerics 27]

Sounds like a recording from a number station : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station

Very interesting indeed....

ah ya' date=' it does sound like that. maybe that is what it is? but what do the numbers mean for numbers stations, maybe it means the same thing for this recording.

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Probably no use for it now' date=' but when devs add more features, these radios could be used for side missions etc... Voice says to go to certain place...

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ya that would be cool.

[drakenof 9]

Where did you found NVG's and rangefinder btw ?

[numerics 27]

Where did you found NVG's and rangefinder btw ?

NWA. check bodies of soldiers, that is where I found mine, that is why I always try to check bodies of soldiers now, and which is why I found the Radio.

[dacaveboy@hotmail.com 6]

They're grid references. I checked the first three on a detailed map and there's a deer stand at each location. Id be willing to bet that the rest lead you to deer stands too. I would say they're pointing you to some good loot.

[numerics 27]

They're grid references. I checked the first three on a detailed map and there's a deer stand at each location. Id be willing to bet that the rest lead you to deer stands too. I would say they're pointing you to some good loot.

awesome!

[tremanarch 42]

awesome! i always tried to find out where all the deer stands are!

I have a solid map fromt the game and i marked already interesting places, and some deer stands on it

[chaostactical 4]

nice find!

[numerics 27]

no numbers played this hour, either that or i missed it, just the morse code or radio frequency, i really don't know which it is.

[Drake Sigar 9]

This is either a clever elaborate troll or one of the most awesome things I've read about Day Z so far. We're gettin' all Davinci code up in 'ere.

[drakenof 9]

Where did you found NVG's and rangefinder btw ?

NWA. check bodies of soldiers' date=' that is where I found mine, that is why I always try to check bodies of soldiers now, and which is why I found the Radio.

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Zombie soldiers or standard random soldier corpse ?

[numerics 27]

Where did you found NVG's and rangefinder btw ?

NWA. check bodies of soldiers' date=' that is where I found mine, that is why I always try to check bodies of soldiers now, and which is why I found the Radio.

[/quote']

Zombie soldiers or standard random soldier corpse ?

Zombie soldiers as far as I know, I had to kill the ones that I found stuff on.

[Outsider (DayZ) 0]

http://i.imgur.com/yUt6H.jpg this is where I found it btw' date=' if anyone is interested, I don't know if you'll have the same 'luck' as I did, or if you're even interested, and it just played again about 8 minutes ago, and it is confirmed the same message on a loop, but it is still getting kinda redundant at this point.. it should at least be like fallout 3 where it is an actual radio station with music. Sorry for the profanity in the chat on the screenshot link, if it is against the rules, I'll remove the link.

[hr']

Pics or it didn't happen.

I just linked one in my last post about where I found it

edit: neat' date=' instead of letting you make multiple posts, it merges all sequential posts together if no one posted after you. :D

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Is that a GPS??!?

[sorophx 25]

lol @"Entrenching tool"

[tajin 17]

They're grid references. I checked the first three on a detailed map and there's a deer stand at each location. Id be willing to bet that the rest lead you to deer stands too. I would say they're pointing you to some good loot.

Yeh thought so too when I heard about the numbers.

Too bad I allready know the location of every single deerstand on cherna. ;)

Anyway... pretty cool idea to add something like this.

Now shush and leave my deerstands alone ! :P

[Pale_Rider 2]

Wow between this and the idea of using the entrenching tool to make barricades, I feel like I"m just scratching the surface of what's possible in this game so far.

I got my first vehicle yesterday. Found my first NVG's today and got to play with some of the NATO weapons.

I really wanna get up in the chopper...

[Guest]

seriously, thats the best found!

thats what makes a game unique, now im so motivated finding stuff like this, im sure there are more mysterys n puzzles out there or will propably will be added.

if i found that that radio before you, it propably would have scared the shit out of me lol... you made my day, great found.

imagine there would be that big puzzle, and no one knows about it, a puzzle which allows you to find out about a backstory of everything, how everything happened, or just cool loot places. thats seriously great.