Listen and read USA nuclear forces Emergency Action Messages, heard on 11175 kHz

jacquesm

Nice and soothing for when you're already a bit nervous about what the next 13 minutes might bring.

qaz_plm

“Skyking, Skyking, do not answer…”

paaloeye

Founding Listener :)

londons_explore

So these messages are presumably encrypted with a one time pad, and some lookup book of what each message of just a few characters means? And I assume there are also a high bandwidth comms channels, and this is just the backup which is presumably tested each day.

ytxm

More on "Skyking" here: https://lswilson.dewlineadventures.com/skyking/

rafram

> Mostly static. The net is quiet until it isn't. > Preformatted is what you can hear: the same shape every time. > hearing it is all anyone outside the force can do. > The day has a shape. I would recommend switching to a newer Claude model.

vorpalhex

Some context for those not exposed to this previously. Messages usually mean nothing. An uptick in activity means.. nothing. We're on the tail end of a major exercise so upticks in chatter are probably related to that. Anyone who posts anything along the lines of "but there were 5x more messages or a really big message so N is going to happen!" is a crazy person. Ignore them. It's neat, but it's not prophetic.

dist-epoch

> Skyking, Skyking, DO NOT ANSWER This might be the source of the "DO NOT ANSWER" phrase from Three Body Problem.

LeoPanthera

This is a cool idea. I'm actually quite glad that AI generated stuff is still so very obvious. The world will be a darker place when it isn't.

nubinetwork

https://priyom.org/military-stations/united-states/hfgcs#voi...

none_to_remain

A weird little trivia: for some time period the Skyking test messages used band names and other pop culture references as the content of test messages. Iron Maiden, The Cure, Duran Duran, Rush, Hansen... And of course test messages may be sent erroneously so we end up with the nuclear command channel carrying messages like "DISREGARD 'THE CURE' TRANSMITTED AT 19" ( https://eam.watch/view/d4272f25-fd33-47a4-9b37-6c55a8ea3d0e )

aussieguy1234

Ah, some nice white noise to fall asleep to... Until the apocalypse arrives that is.

wyldfire

"We cannot launch our missiles unless both you and I agree!" Re: the partial EAM from "Crimson Tide".

nosmokewhereiam

I love this site. Everytime I heard skyking messages it was on 8775 khz I think, if anyone can explain that I'd love to hear if there are multiple freqs. Also: has electronic music such as techno sampled these yet...? Seems rife for a dancefloor hit!

pnw

Interested to learn more about the Missileer device listed on the site...

loeg

Is there some reason it's written 11175 kHz instead of 11.175 MHz?

alfiedotwtf

I just want to know why the crew’s chairs have such thick thick head rests? That just seems like a waste of material

tom89999

Very interesting website and well made. A lot of info i did not know so far. I have listened to it a while back when the Kerch bridge, Ukraine, was targeted, there was something going on with those messages the day before. But we cant decrypt those messages, only to listen when they were broadcasted and how many of it. A sudden spike in activity can tell us something, but we dont need to go in panic mode.