The Federal State Unitary Enterprise «Radio Frequency Center of the Privolzhsky Federal District» (FSUE «RFC PFD») started its operating activities since 29 March 2001.
The head office of FSUE «RFC PFD» is located in Nizhny Novgorod, while its managements are situated in other subjects of the Privolzhsky Federal District, which includes six republics, seven regions, and one territory.
The enterprise was established with a view to satisfy social needs as a result of its activities, related to the implementation of organizational and technical arrangements for proper use of radio frequencies or radio frequency channels, commercial radio-electronic facilities, and (or) high-frequency devices (hereinafter radio-electronic facilities, high-frequency devices) within the Privolzhsky Federal District. To accomplish this, the Radio Frequency Center of the Privolzhsky Federal District has all the things needed, i.e. skilled and enthusiastic experts; state-of-the-art equipment; essential technologies. The measurement techniques are developed by some research organizations under our orders.
The enterprise uses up-to-date computer-aided radio monitoring technologies and data-processing systems to provide a proper use of radio frequencies and radio-electronic facilities in the specified quantity, radio monitoring of the radiation of radio-electronic facilities and high-frequency devices, including the workability provision of the radio spectrum.
The radio monitoring within the Privolzhsky Federal District is performed using stationary, mobile, and portable systems, equipped with the centrally controlled up-to-date direction-finding equipment and soft hardware.
Within the areas of the highest concentration of radio-electronic facilities in the district 76 stationary radio monitoring points are active, 57 of them are unattended remotely controlled monitoring stations. The enterprise structure includes a technical monitoring station, which provides monitoring in the 30 MHz frequency range. This station is meant for a technical monitoring of commercial radio-electronic facilities and high-frequency devices in an assigned area of responsibility within the Russian Federation, providing additional support to foreign Communication authorities.
Beyond the coverage of the stationary monitoring points 49 mobile monitoring systems and laboratories are used. Portable radio monitoring systems are used for the interference source search and localization, as well as for remote measurements.
FSUE «RFC PFD» is also active on the market of commercial services, not related to radio monitoring. They include in the first place all kinds of measurements, requiring measurement equipment and specialists. To achieve this, the enterprise received a GOST R certification, which enables testing in a specially established testing center of the enterprise. A license for geodetic activities has been obtained. This enables to offer such service as radio station engineering measurements, calculation and range coverage determination for various transmitters, coordinate measuring for radio-electronic facilities, measurement of antenna suspension heights, and many others.
In addition to that, the center considers claims on radio and television interferences, arranges the search on interference sources, as well as their elimination within the entire district. Applications for such services inflow both from entities and persons within the Privolzhsky Federal District, as well as from CIS and non-CIS countries through the Communication authority of the Russian Federation.
The Center’s list of services includes also a legal support of users with regard to the usages of allotted frequencies and channels.
Since December 2006 a collective radio station (RU3TWW) is active in the enterprise. The station includes state-of–the-art transmitting-receiving equipment, enabling apart from amateur activities a quality monitoring of all amateur bands.
In 2009 FSUE «RFC PFD» performed a work on the implementation and certification of the quality management system in the context of a proper use of radio frequencies or radio frequency channels, radio-electronic facilities and/or the compliance of commercial high-frequency devices for the compliance with GOST R ISO 9001-2008.
Summarizing the above, we can say that the scope of functions of FSUE «RFC PFD» is extensive and comprehensive, which are successfully performed by a large and close-knit team of professionals.