Next tests in the 6470Hz band

In  22 and  23 april 2017 Stefan DK7FC did additional test ebnaut transmissions on 6470Hz. Similar to the previous tests, the transmission was decoded as usual by Paul Nicholson (850km) and also by  Jacek SQ5BPF (900km).

The transmission parameters from 22 april 2017 were:

f = 6470.100000 Hz
Start time: 22.Apr.2017   07:00:00 UTC
Symbol period: 40 s
Characters: 2
CRC bits: 32
Coding 16K21A
Duration: 11h, 22m, 40s
Antenna current: 460 mA

Ebnaut decoder output (the received message was “RR”):

found rank 0 ber 4.0039e-01 Eb/N0 4.6 M -1.306843281e+00 [RR] ps [ 0 0 0 0 0]
carrier phase: -15.0
carrier Eb/N0: 4.0
carrier S/N: 14.56 dB in 24.4 uHz
elapsed 36

The transmission parameters from 23 april 2017 were:

f = 6470.100000 Hz
Start time: 23.Apr.2017   05:00:00 UTC
Symbol period: 40 s
Characters: 2
CRC bits: 32
Coding 16K21A
Duration: 11h, 22m, 40s
Antenna current: 460 mA

Ebnaut decoder output (the received message was “RR”, same as 22 april 2017):

found rank 0 ber 4.0430e-01 Eb/N0 4.2 M -1.500551939e+00 [RR] ps [ 2 30 30 30 30]
carrier phase: 21.9
carrier Eb/N0: 3.8
carrier S/N: 14.34 dB in 24.4 uHz
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