1. A receiver system, comprising: a decision-directed (DD) least mean squares (LMS) blind equalizer for equalizing a minimum shift keying (MSK) signal in a single carrier channel, the output signal of the DD LMS blind equalizer having, after equalizing approximately 5.11×10 8 MSK symbols, a non-zero phase offset θ 0 , the DD LMS equalizer further comprising a finite impulse response filter with tap weights that are adaptively updated using a filter tap update algorithm, the output signal having, after equalizing approximately 5.11×10 8 MSK symbols, a non-zero carrier frequency offset (CFO) f 0 , wherein: the DD LMS blind equalizer averages a block to compute an independent phase estimate for a block, the DD LMS blind equalizer computes an error variable for a block from the phase estimate for the block, the DD LMS blind equalizer uses the phase estimate and alternating in-phase/quadrature (I/Q) one dimensional/binary slicing to make a hard decision that does not comprise output of the receiver system, and operating simultaneously in DD mode and as a blind equalizer, the DD LMS blind equalizer uses the hard decision to derive an error variable that is used to update the filter tap weights of the DD LMS equalizer.