CIS 405-3915

General Information

CIS 405-3915 is a synchronous teleprinter system in a CIS-8181 variant, but uses the half baud rate. This system is used by the Soviet military and railways authorities for point to point connections. Despite its simplicity this modem is still in operation today. Traffic is always encrypted. Sometimes operator chat or station id in Morse telegraphy can be copied.

Usage:

§ Transfer of textual information over HF.

§ Point-to-point communication between stations in CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States)-region.

Mode Details

 

Item

Value

Standard

Modulation

FSK

 

Number of tones

2

 

Shift (Hz)

500

 

Symbol rate (Baud)

40.5

 

Encryption

 

Demodulator Settings

Demodulator

FSK 2 matched

 

Symbol rate (Bd)

40.5

 

SR tolerance (Bd)

5

 

Shift (Hz)

500

 

Shift tolerance (Hz)

10

 

Modem type

Synchronous

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 73: CIS 405-3915

Figure 26: CIS 405-3915 Spectrogram