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CIS Modes

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Welcome to the CIS Modes article. This table will list the various digital modes used by the Russians (a.k.a Commonwealth of Independent States) and their member states. Wbile software like Rivet and Sorcerer will decode some of these modes, the traffic is usually heavily encrypted. Deciphering the meaning of this traffic and stations is very much an ongoing process.


This list is very far from complete - Antonio I5-56578's blog and Priyom are two sites that you should visit if you're interested in this phase of DXing. Both of these sites, along with the links for Rivet and Sorcerer, can be found in our HF Appendix


The CIS Mode Waterfalls page has all of these waterfalls (in thumbnail form) for easy reference

Active CIS modes

Mode Name Synonym Notes Waterfall
CIS-12 AT3004D AT3004D Waterfall
FIRE
MS5
Russian 12 Tone Modem
Russian 50bd/500 FSK Enigma M42b RusIntel 50Baud Waterfall
FSK200 AQUARIUS Hoka's name for 200/1000 ACF 288 FSK200 Waterfalls
T600 BEE BEE Waterfall
CIS 36-50
Russian 50bd Secure
XPA CIS MFSK20 XPA Waterfall
XPA2 NUM13 XPA2 Waterfall
CIS MFSK16
XPB

Sporadic or Inactive CIS modes

Who knows if these will ever return? Included in this list are ones that were rarely noted active, or have since vanished. Possibly this is due to testing a modem or a new path between stations - we may never know. 'Last seen' refers to the last time this mode appeared in the UDXF logs.


Mode Name Synonym Notes Waterfall
CIS MFSK-11 last seen Mar 2019
CIS-11 TORG 11 last seen Feb 2019 CIS11 Waterfall
CIS-14 AMOR last seen Nov 2019 CIS14 Waterfall
AMOR96
PARITY-14
CIS-45 via Antonio I5-56578 Digital Blog-last seen Mar 2019
CIS 100 last seen Feb 2019
CIS-112 via Antonio I5-56578 Digital Blog-last seen Feb 2019
CIS-500 1 log in UDXF Mar 2019
CIS-FSK-1000 last seen Mar 2019
CIS-3000 Selcall for MFSK-68/OFDM last seen Dec 2019 CIS3000 Waterfall
FROST
CIS-OFDM-112 last seen Feb 2019
Mazielka last seen July 2019 Mazielka Waterfalls
RUS-ARQ via Antonio I5-56578 Digital Blog-last seen Feb 2019
Russian 40.5/500 FSK 2 logs in UDXF Apr 2019
Serdolik CROWD-36 last seen June 2019 Serdolik Waterfall
CIS-36