[time-nuts] Russian HF Timing Service ?

Ruslan Nabioullin rnabioullin at gmail.com
Tue Aug 21 08:11:01 UTC 2018


On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 2:44 AM, Iain Young <iain at g7iii.net> wrote:
>
> Hi Ruslan
>
> You Wrote:
>
>>  an HF timing service in Russia operates for part of the day)
>
>
> Which station are you thinking of ? RWM ? Or is there another on HF from
> Russia ? (RWM doesn't include the time of day, but is 24x7). Do you have
> frequencies and time of transmission ?
>
> (I'm aware of RBU as well, but that's down on LF (and also 24H), Hence
> my curiosity...)

I must've mixed it up with some other station---surprisingly there's
only a single officially-documented T&F-dedicated HF service in Russia
(plus three T&F-dedicated VLF services, one of which is apparently a
network of stations---so eight T&F-dedicated VLF stations in
total---plus what are apparently CHAYKA nodes---i.e., not dedicated to
T&F).  Here's the official listing of all Russian government T&F
stations, as of 2018, translated from Russian [1]:

1. RBU; 66.6 kHz; in Moscow; 50 kW; 24/7
2. RTZ; 50 kHz; in Irkutsk; 10 kW; 23/7
3. RWM; 4.996, 9.996, and 14.996 MHz; 10 kW for all frequencies; 24/7
4. RAB-99; 25, 25.1, 25.5, 23, and 20.5 kHz; in Khabarovsk; 300 kW for
all frequencies; 2/7
5. RJH-63; ``; in Krasnodar; ``; 1/7
6. RJH-69; ``; in Molodechno; ``; 1/7
7. RJH-77; ``; in Archkangelsk; ``; 1/7
8. RJH-86; ``; in Bishkek; ``; 2/7
9. RJH-90; ``; in Nizhniy Novgorod; ``; 1/7
10. RNC-E(A); 100 kHz; in Bryansk; 800 kW; 10/7
11. RNC-E(D); 100 kHz; in Syizran; 800 kW; 10/7
12. RNC-V(A); 100 kW; in Aleksandrovsk-Sahalinskiy; 400 kW; 12/7

The RJH series and RAB-99 appear to constitute a network which is
assigned the ``Beta'' appellation, and the RNC series appear to be (a
proper subset of?) CHAYKA nodes.

[1] ftp://ftp.vniiftri.ru/BULLETINS/V/bull_b16_2018.pdf

-Ruslan

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