CIS-36

General Information

CIS-36 is a modem used by the Soviet military and diplomatic services.
This modem system is also known as CROWD 36.

Usage:

§ Data communication over HF.

Mode Details

 

Item

Value

Standard

Modulation

MFSK

 

Number of tones

36

 

Tone spacing (Hz)

40

 

Bandwidth (Hz)

2000

 

Symbol rate (Baud)

40

 

Encryption

 

Demodulator Settings

Demodulator

Multitone (MFSK)

 

Tone duration (ms)

25

 

TD tolerance (ms)

2.5

 

No. of tones

36

 

Tone position type

Equidistant frequencies

 

Tone distance (Hz)

40

Features

Demodulation

yes

 

Recognition

yes

 

Decoding

yes

 

Automatic Polarity Adjustment

no

 

Combination with other modems (modem list)

yes

Tuning

The tuning frequency is the center of the signal

Table 67: CIS-36

Figure 24: CIS-36 Spectrogram