From: "Klaus von der Heide" <v.d.heide@on-line.de>
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Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 11:28:11 +0100
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Hello LF-Friends,

the negative result of the recent transatlantic experiment only says 
that the usual ham methods for LF contacts are not adequate for a 
transatlantic distance. A weak signal never excludes information 
transmission, it only reduces the information bit rate. Why not try, 
as a first step, to get one single bit over the ocean? 
The communication theory says that BPSK is optimum, and a 
bandwidth considerably larger than the information bit rate is better 
than a small one. 

I therefore, propose the following experiment:

1. Both, transmitter and receiver, must be synchronized to an 
    atomic clock, i.e. all oscillators that determine the carrier 
    or the symbol rate. Especially the sampling frequency of 
    a DSP (not the processor clock) must be synchronized.
    A soundcard normally cannot. 

2. The symbol rate is exactly  1 bit/s.  Starting every minute, 
    a constant random pattern of 60 bits is sent out. 
    Appropriate matched filters must be used at both ends.

3. At the receiving end, a DSP adds the 60 new  values to 
    60 accumulators.

4. The contents of the accumulators is correlated with the 
    known random bit pattern. After many hours or days 
    (or years?) the correlation must become significant.

5. It is important to suppress the non-Gaussian noise as 
    good as possible before the data are accumulated.

As I mentioned some weeks ago, phased array antennas 
at both ends would increase the signal by many dBs. 
There isn't any dought that hams can cross information 
over the atlantic. The minimum information of a ham QSO 
is 50 bits in either direction. The open questions only is: 
Is the possible information bit rate  1 bit per day  or is it 
1 bit per 5 minutes  or in other words: can a QSO run 
within 10 hours or can it definitely not.

73 de Klaus, DJ5HG