A coarse carrier offset adapter for determining a coarse carrier offset
for application to a received satellite signal, a method of performing
coarse carrier offset adjustment and a time division multiplexing (TDM)
satellite receiver. In one embodiment, the adapter includes: (1) an
energy estimator configured to analyze, with respect to the received
satellite signal, energies in bands on either side of a baseband as
displaced by a coarse carrier offset and (2) an offset adapter coupled to
the energy estimator and configured to change the coarse carrier offset
until the energies become substantially equal and provide the coarse
carrier offset to a digital down converter for the application.