the present invention relates to a bootstrapping cross - polarization canceler which includes a noise - blanking limiter in the path before a correlation detector , and a processor which uses the output from the correlation detector to provide cross - polarization cancellation continuously or just during an outage condition where orthogonally received signals from a communication path include error rates which exceed a predetermined threshold . alternatively , the processor can use the output of a pseudo error detection , which detects the error rate of the orthogonally received signals , when the error rates in the received signals are below the predetermined threshold in order to achieve convergence and cross - polarization cancellation in the canceler during a non - outage period .