SareemOne - Olivine Window (2023)

The following is an abridged extract from “The story of SareemOne”. A link to the full text can be found at the bottom of this excerpt.

Cаяём1 (roughly translated from Russian as ‘We speak as one’) was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in 1983, but went missing just after launch, thought to be brought down by US interference. It remained hidden from the public until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1988 when many details of the then defunct Kosmicheskaya programma SSSR information were leaked.

A few months later amateur radio enthusiasts began noting and logging a new sporadic radio transmission who’s frequency would “Doppler shift“, often bleeding temporarily into other stations broadcasting in the high frequency range that is often used by Numbers Stations (3-30Mhz).

In the early 1990s work done at the University of Rangoon finally linked these broadcasts to the missing satellite.

This cassette is a collection of recordings attributed to the station renamed Sareem1, later SareemOne. Lovingly restored, corrected, compiled and upscaled by Mach V and Andy Gillham (Echaskech); the track names all come from the ENIGMA logs where the majority of these recordings can be found. Special mention for the tireless work made by ENIGMA monitors & loggers PATHfndr, XHTRM141.12 & L0neSt*R who made the majority of these original recordings available.