Radio emission from air showers enables measurements of cosmic particle
kinematics and identity. The radio signals are detected in broadband Megahertz
antennas among continuous background noise. We present two deep learning
concepts and their performance when applied to simulated data. The first
network classifies time traces as signal or background. We achieve a true
positive rate of about 90% for signal-to-noise ratios larger than three with a
false positive rate below 0.2%. The other network is used to clean the time
trace from background and to recover the radio time trace originating from an
air shower. Here we achieve a resolution in the energy contained in the trace
of about 20% without a bias for 80% of the traces with a signal. The
obtained frequency spectrum is cleaned from signals of radio frequency
interference and shows the expected shape.Comment: 20 pages, 13 figures, resubmitted to JINS