Joe VO1NA wrote:

> An 8K19A sequence with 7 characters &  2 second long
> symbols was started around 2300 (I hope). At 2330 I will
> try to sync it against UT and send it again.

For both messages I got an 'all-star' decode

 23:00
 found rank 0: *******  ps [  8  -60  -60  -60  -60]
 re-encode 167/608 ber 2.75e-01  Es/N0=-7.4 Eb/N0=4.2

 23:20
 found rank 0: *******  ps [  0    0    0    0    0]
 re-encode 1/608 ber 1.64e-03  Es/N0=6.4 Eb/N0=18.0

which means you were sending pure carrier.  (The CRC16 isn't
initialised to 0xffff as is usually done, instead zero so that
a payload of all zeros encodes to all zeros and transmits/receives
as a pure carrier).

The signal at 23:20 was very strong, only one of the 608 symbols
was demodulated incorrectly.

> Next start time 0000 UTC 24 Nov.

Also unmodulated carrier

 found rank 0: *******  ps [  1  180  180  180  180]
 re-encode 1/608 ber 1.64e-03  Es/N0=6.4 Eb/N0=18.0 effrate=1/14.48

with again (suspiciously) just one symbol error.
Checked: the 23:20 symbol error was at offset 283, the 00:00
was at 512.

Something wrong with the modulator but the signal is huge. By the
time it arrives here you've enough spare dB to cross another
ocean.   Once you've got things fettled we should try daylight
path which would a better test of the mode.

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Paul Nicholson
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