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Re: LF: Coherent BPSK on LF using EbNaut

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Subject: Re: LF: Coherent BPSK on LF using EbNaut
From: "IZ7PDX Luigi D." <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 11:21:43 +0200
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Congratulations Domenico!
73 to all...

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> Il giorno 23/set/2015, alle ore 02:04, IZ7SLZ <[email protected]> ha 
> scritto:
> 
> Hello LF,
> 
> I am pleased to report a successful "Coherent BPSK" QSO between DF6NM and 
> IZ7SLZ on LF using EbNaut program of Paul Nicholson.
> QSO took place in the night between Friday 2015-09-18 and Saturday 2015-09-19 
> .
> 
> I think it was the first time that anyone tried this on 137 kHz !
> 
> Frequencies used were 137510.00 Hz (DF6NM) and 137502.12 (IZ7SLZ).
> 
> We exchange messages of 16 characters in coherent BPSK with UT synchronous 
> symbols, using a symbol period of 1 second and 8K19A scheme coding.
> 
> Software used were the Windows' versions of EbNaut-TX and EbNaut-RX (tnx to 
> P. Nicholson: your software is working without problems!).
> Also Spectrum Lab (tnx Wolf !) was used to export FFT data, in a similar way 
> of the Markus' OPDS setup.
> Other programs,  written by Markus,  were used: one  to convert FFT exported 
> data for the EbNaut entry and another to search for the best frequency and 
> time offsets.
> 
> There was not much phase drift during the qso and in other test 
> transmissions, since we reach a good frequency stability at both ends thanks 
> to Rubidium Reference Oscillator (Markus side) and a good quality OCXO from 
> my side.
> 
> You can see reported symbol / carrier EbN0 and also the messages exchanged,  
> in the attached screen-shots taken at both ends.
> 
> We hope now to joint other stations that want to challenge the timing and 
> frequency accuracy, to have a QSO in LF close to the Shannon limit.
> 
> Markus DF6NM, will report soon all particulars and his comments of the 
> experiment. Thanks in advance Markus!
> 
> 73, Domenico (iz7slz)
> 
> 
> 
> <EbNaut LF QSO 19-09-2015.rar>


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