Radio Bunkers on Nasdara 📻

Tap along with what you hear: first the grid (6 digits), then the code (4 digits). Five beeps make one digit.

Use . for short and - for long, with a space between digits. No spaces? It will still split every 5 beeps into a digit.

If your browser asks for microphone permission, allow it for this site only. It types beep by beep as it hears them — a full bunker is 50 beeps, 10 digits, usually about half a minute of radio, and it repeats, so if you miss one it comes round again. The beep meter only moves while listening live; a recording file is read silently, so watch its Heard beeps line instead.

Wait for a long pause before you start. A long silence means one bunker is done and the next one is about to start, so the next beeps you hear will be a fresh grid, in order. If you start in the middle of a bunker, you will mix the end of one bunker with the start of the next, and the digits will be wrong. Record until you hear a long pause again — that means that bunker is done, and the next one is next.

Beep meter:

What it hears: —

Sound when a bunker is decoded

That checkbox means: when listening finishes a full 10-digit bunker, your phone plays a short chime, so you know to look even if you were not watching the screen. Untick it for silent decoding.

1. Tune a radio to 80.0 MHz

Personal Radio or Base Radio, held or near you. On air: At night, from sunset until dawn.

You need a Handheld Transceiver or a Field Transceiver with a 9V Battery. Switch it on and tune it to 80.0 MHz. Hold it or stay close to it.

2. Put what you hear into the decoder

Tap SHORT for a short beep and LONG for a long beep, as you hear them. Five beeps make one digit. The first six digits are the grid, the next four are the door code.

Or type what you heard in the box: use . for short and - for long, with a space between digits, then tap Decode what I typed.

Or, under the decoder, tap Use the microphone to let the page listen and tap the beeps in for you, or Decode a recording to read a sound file you recorded.

3. Open the bunker

Find it on the map. Type the code on the keypad by its door, then the key button, while it is on air.

Hear the radio better

In DayZ open Options > Sound, turn Effects Volume right down and Music Volume off. The radio's beeps stay loud; steps, wind, rain and gunfire go quiet, so the beeps come through clean.

Each bunker plays 3 times in a row, then a long pause, then the next bunker 3 times, then the third 3 times, then the whole cycle repeats — you get several tries at each one, and a repeat confirms the code you already heard.

Every bunker is ten digits: first six for the map grid, then four for the door code. Every digit is exactly five beeps, short and long. A long beep lasts about three times as long as a short one.

Heard nothing on 80.0 MHz? Some guides say Bohemia never published the exact channel, so if it stays silent, cycle the other handheld channels and try again.

You don't have to learn the table — just tap every beep into the decoder with Short or Long.

The first six digits are the game's map grid in 100-metre squares: three digits for the distance east from the west edge, three for the distance south from the north edge.

065 090 means 6.5 km east of the west edge and 9.0 km south of the north edge. That hits a square of 100 × 100 metres — and each one holds at most one of the 23 bunkers. That is why the decoder knows the bunker as soon as the grid is complete. If one digit is off, it suggests the bunker that differs in just that digit.

That is the square from X 6500 to 6600 and Z 9000 to 9100 — centre X 6550, Z 9050.

The suggestion in the grid result uses the full list of all 23 radio bunkers, from the DayZed map. Tap All 23 radio bunkers above Tips to see them all. If your grid matches one exactly, it names that bunker. If it matches none, but one bunker differs in just one digit, it suggests that bunker.

• There is a keypad at the entrance. Enter the four digits and confirm. The keypad has room for six characters — don't worry, the four are enough. From outside the door only opens while the bunker is active that night.
• The door shuts by itself after about twelve seconds and locks again. Remember the code in case you need to get back in. From inside you can always get out.
• Yesterday's code opens nothing, and the next night brings other bunkers with new codes.

Every active bunker has a wooden crate. What it holds, each server sets in its mission files — here is what the crate holds in vanilla, with each item's chance:

Plate Carrier

100%

Pouches

100%

Holster

100%

9V Battery ×2

100%

NVG Headstrap

100%

Night Vision Goggles

100%

Camouflage Helmet

100%

As set in Nasdara's vanilla mission files. Servers can fill the crate differently.

On top of that there is regular military loot on the shelves and floor: weapons, explosives, tools, clothes and containers.

The crate is no stash. When the bunker's round ends, it disappears with everything still in it. Take what you want and don't fill it with your own gear.

Want to browse every bunker without decoding one first?

Opens a page with all 23 bunkers, their grids and centre coordinates, each with a GPS button.

• It is pitch dark down there. Bring a Head Torch or a Glow Stick — the crate has night vision goggles, but you have to get to it first.
• Everyone on the server hears the same radio. Expect others to run to the same bunker or to wait for you at its only entrance.
• Record the transmission with your phone or console. Then you can tap along calmly and replay a beep you missed. Wait for a long pause before you start recording — a long silence is the gap between bunkers, so the next beeps will be a fresh bunker in order. If you start in the middle, you mix two bunkers and the digits come out wrong.
• Nights are shorter than days on this server, and the transmitter only talks at night. For this server's real night length, use /night-length in Discord — it reads the server's time multipliers and converts them, so you get your server's number, not a generic one. The decoder on this page also keeps the bunkers you heard, so you can check a code again without re-tapping.
• Servers can change all of this: more active bunkers, other air times, even letters in the code. This decoder reads digits only, like the vanilla game.