(I've footnoted some material that's obvious
to people in rec.radio.shortwave as I'm sending
this a few other places. Thanks)
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Earlier this year I caught a story that some folk
believed they could use "WSPR" (geeky radio stuff [a])
analysis to localize the flight path of the disappeared
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 [b] which went missing
back in March, 2014.
The other attempts at finding it, including using
the doppler radio shifts in its satelline pinging,
were unsuccesful.
Anyway, back in March, 2024, the boffins at the University
of Liverpoool "stated they would release their results
withing six months". [c]
Now obviously, predictions are hard, especially about
the future, but I looked around and couldn't find
any misc updates.
Anyone run into any? Thanks
[a] Airplanes are Big Pieces of Metal and do all
sorts of things to radio waves near them. Dannyb recalls
way back how the tv screen would do all sorts of weird
things whenever a plane was within a mile or so.
WSPR stands for Weak Signal Propagation Reporter, and
it turns out there's a loose worldwide network of
folk who monitor this stuff
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSPR_(amateur_radio_software)
[b]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370
[c] wiki again, under "MH370 Hypothesis"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSPR_(amateur_radio_software)
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