Rattlegram

Transmit short text messages over COFDMTV encoded audio signals

COFDMTV is based on COFDM (coded orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing) technology:

- 160 ms long OFDM symbols

- 6.25 Hz per sub-carrier

- 1/8 guard interval

- differentially encoded PSK (phase-shift keying) modulation

- systematic polar codes for forward error correction

Currently Modes 14, 15 and 16 are supported:

Using either SPC(2048, 1392), SPC(2048, 1056) or SPC(2048, 712) with CRC32C aided SCL decoding and differential QPSK modulation for the payload.

Only a bandwidth of 1600 Hz is needed and the transmission of either 85, 128 or 170 bytes take about one second with the leading noise and fancy header disabled.