CHN 4plus4

General Information

CHN 4+4 is a mode assumedly used by the Chinese military.     
It is based on two groups, with a 450 Hz gap, of 4 tones with 300 Hz spacing.

Usage:

§ Transfer of textual information over HF.

Mode Details

 

Item

Value

Standard

Modulation

QPSK

 

Tones

2 x 4

 

Channel distance (Hz)

300 / 450

 

Bandwidth

3000

 

Symbol rate (Bd)
 (per channel))

75

 

Data rate (bit/s)

1200

 

Modulation

QPSK

Demodulator Settings

Demodulator

MPSK 2,4,8 A/B

 

Symbol rate (Bd)

75

 

SR tolerance (Bd)

1

 

Modulation order

4

 

Version

B

 

Number of channels

8

Features

Demodulation

yes

 

Recognition

yes

 

Decoding

no

 

Automatic Polarity Adjustment

no

 

Combination with other modems (modem list)

yes

Tuning

The tuning frequency is the center between channels 4 and 5

Table 6: CHN 4plus4

Figure 8: CHN 4plus4 Spectrogram

Modem Version History

Release

Date

History

2.0.0

2013-01-10

Modem added