A pre-equalization phase tracking unit, for each signal block of received series: computes autocorrelation between portion of identical-as-transmitted initial and terminal sequences and computes phase of autocorrelation; estimates start phase of block processing window using autocorrelation phase and start phase of previous signal block in series; estimates phase drift within window by interpolating using estimated start phases of at least the signal block and next signal block in series; and computes phase compensation signal using estimated phase drift. A post-equalization phase tracking unit subdivides the block into time sequence of groups of equalized symbols. For each group: compute de-rotated version of each symbol using previous group's accumulated phase to blindly estimate residual group phase; assign group's accumulated phase with sum of group's residual phase and previous group's accumulated phase; estimate phase drift within group by using at least group's accumulated phase to compute phase compensation signal.