[time-nuts] Russian HF Timing Service ?

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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In message <CAHDZN8=o4rOkJ4evam=xc31uqBmK3UBh1VEEyd3F4NmNrHrPPw at mail.gmail.com>
, Ruslan Nabioullin writes:

The view from Denmark:

>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

Decent but complex timesignal, not nearly as good as DCF77 or Rugby 60kHz.

>2. RTZ; 50 kHz; in Irkutsk; 10 kW; 23/7

RFI makes this unusable.

>3. RWM; 4.996, 9.996, and 14.996 MHz; 10 kW for all frequencies; 24/7

Not unusable.

>4. RAB-99; 25, 25.1, 25.5, 23, and 20.5 kHz; in Khabarovsk; 300 kW for
>all frequencies; 2/7

RFI makes this unusable

>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

"BETA", an Omega-like radionav system, not much on air these days,
very hard to dig out of RFI, not very precise when you do.

>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

"Chayka", an Loran-C like radionav system, but the GRIs are
horrible, in particular 8000, because any N*kHz CW carrier
causes long period phase-noise, the better the CW reference
the longer the period.

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