BPSK On 433 MHz European ISM Band

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[WaveRider] is using a type of phase shift keying called BPSK to transmit digital sound and video for remote telemetry. Though a higher signal to noise ratio (SNR) is generally sought after with communications, legal limitations are imposed on total radiated power. To balance the two headed beast, he opted out on frequency shift keying due to binary shift keying’s ability to work with lower SNR. This adds the difficulty of properly reconstructing the digital signal at the receiver. A PLL based carrier regeneration circuit is used to reconstruct the signal. Using the Rabit2000 processor as the host controller on both transmitter and receiver, 96KB/Sec serial data is obtained. On the other side of the spectrum is the Homemade regenerative tube radio.

10 thoughts on “BPSK On 433 MHz European ISM Band

  1. Nice build.
    If he had utilised some form of forward error correction scheme you can obtain the same BER as BPSK with 4-QAM, which would increase the spectral efficiency and in turn increase the throughput.
    Software Defined Radio (SDR) would be a nice platform to initially build and mess around with structures without building an application specific circuit, it would allow interleaving, FEC, puncturing, etc to be implemented easier.

  2. 4QAM is not QPSK, they are similar in nature, but also slightly different. Many authors simply class them as one scheme which is wrong.

    4QAM produces a slightly better result over an AWGN channel, but QPSK is more suitable for producing a resilient OFDM mapped signal.

    utilising FEC, interleaving, etc will result in them producing almost identical BER vs SNR waterfall graphs. which you see in almost any referenced material.

    A large number of satiellites use BPSK along with SDR to transmit images, etc. The work would be good for receiving data along those lines.

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