Hi Joe,

unfortunately I had not set up recordings in time so no data here for a decode attempt.  My LF-RX soundcard was also affected by a hiccup with swapped E and H channels until 1:30 UT. Thereafter, your signal  was well visible as a +-5 Hz wide "noise band" around 137.777 kHz, so the 0.2 s EbNaut would surely have been decodable with more than enough SNR.

Apart from going for a "longest EbNaut sequence ever" type record, I'm asking myself whether it would not be better to split a long message into several shorter ones. This probably depends both the fading pattern and on the use-case, i.e. whether a partly reception is also valuable or completely worthless. For example, if the SNR (EbN0) was +2 dB for the first half and -2 dB for the second,
you'd probably still get the combined long message but only the first of two short ones. On the other hand, if it was 0 dB and -4 dB, you'd get the first short message, but nothing at all with the long one. On the practical side, shorter messages would be far less demanding on long-term phase stability, as well as CPU and memory.

All the best,
Markus (DF6NM)


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Von: jcraig <[email protected]>
An: rsgb_lf_group <[email protected]>
Verschickt: Di, 16 Aug 2016 2:47 am
Betreff: Re: LF: EbNaut on LF

QRG changed from 137.477 to 137.777 kHz at 0045 utc. Sorry for the
mixup!

73
Joe

Re: LF: EbNaut on LF
Von:	jcraig <[email protected]>
An:	rsgb_lf_group <[email protected]>
Datum:	Di, 16 Aug 2016 1:26 am