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This LF/CDMA scheme is similar to classical CDMA schemes in that K users share a channel by phase modulating their transmissions with signature sequences. Our LF/CDMA scheme is different in that each user's signature sequence set consists of M orthogonal sequences and thus log(,2)M bits of information are transmitted by choosing among the signature sequences. Additionally, the users use r-phase modulation and our model includes an impulsive (non-Gaussian) noise source to model LF atmospheric noise.","We derive a locally optimum (small signal) receiver structure for our LF/CDMA scheme. This receiver consists of a bandpass correlator followed by a sampler, a zero memory nonlinearity and M discrete time matched filter/correlators. We analyze the performance of this structure in combined multiple access, impulsive and Gaussian noise. 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