Dear Mal,

That guy should be able to fly since RSDN-20 is a chain spread over the
whole area formerly called CCCP. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_(radio_navigation)

You wrote:
> 
> Does anyone know a ham in Russia that could pop over to the TX SITE and
> switch it on for us vlf ops, we need it urgently!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> ...

Why not locking to MSK signals at 18.3 or better 19.6 kHz over there?
SpecLab can do that.

73 de df3lp,
Peter