A technique to determine sampling frequency offset (SFO) phase shift and perform channel estimation for symbols of a signal communicated across a multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) communication channel, in which preambles utilized for channel estimation are sent over more than one time block. Because the transmission of preambles used for channel estimation are sent over multiple time blocks, a SFO phase shift that is linear across tones of an OFDM signal is experienced between preambles of the two time blocks. Upon detection of the SFO phase shift, a weighting matrix used for channel estimation is modified to account for the SFO phase shift, in order to perform the channel estimation with correction for the SFO phase shift.