A
receiver for detecting and recovering data from Orthogonal
Frequency Division Multiplexed (OFDM) symbols. The OFDM symbols include within a repeating
time frame a signalling OFDM symbol and one or more data bearing OFDM symbols, the signalling OFDM symbol including a pre-amble
guard interval and a post-amble
guard interval, the pre-amble and the post-amble guard intervals being formed by
copying samples from a useful part of the signalling OFDM symbol in the
time domain. The
receiver includes a signalling and guard
detector, which includes a correlator comprising a first
branch which includes a first moving averaging filter, which is arranged to form pre-amble average correlated samples by averaging a value of a plurality of pre-amble correlated samples within a
moving window, the plurality of samples averaged within the
moving window corresponding to a temporal length of the post-amble (Tb), a second
branch which includes a second moving averaging filter, which is arranged to form post-amble average correlated samples by averaging a value of a plurality of post-amble correlated samples within a
moving window, the plurality of samples averaged within the moving window corresponding to a temporal length of the pre-amble (Tc), a combiner, which is arranged to combine the averaged pre-amble correlated samples and the averaged post-amble correlated samples to form output correlation samples. A post
processing detector can detect the signalling OFDM symbol and moreover a synchronisation point derived from a centre of the signalling OFDM symbol with improved accuracy. The
receiver finds application, for example, with DVB-T2 in detecting the P1 symbol.