[HN Gopher] Signal Identification Guide
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Signal Identification Guide
Author : fortran77
Score : 35 points
Date : 2021-12-12 18:32 UTC (4 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.sigidwiki.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.sigidwiki.com)
| TonyTrapp wrote:
| Such a perfect page for nerd sniping. Too bad that I couldn't
| find a signal that I heard in the 90s on an FM radio and have
| never been able to identify. From what I can remember, I didn't
| hear it on other FM radios, which makes it even more mysterious.
| In frequency ranges where there was no radio station
| transmission, I didn't just hear the typical static noise but
| also some strangely melodic tones changing frequency multiple
| times a second. The tones weren't very pure like most examples on
| the page, but with lots of strange harmonics / distortion.
| gugagore wrote:
| The website appears to be having trouble. Here is a description
| This wiki is intended to help identify radio signals through
| example sounds and waterfall images. Most signals are received
| and recorded using a software defined radio such as the RTL-SDR,
| Airspy, SDRPlay, HackRF, BladeRF, Funcube Dongle, USRP or others.
| lokimedes wrote:
| On a whim I brought out my SDR tonight for a bit of low frequency
| exploration. I found a wonderfully odd signal at 157 kHz and
| decided to look it up on sigidwiki - only to discover that the
| page was intensely unstable. Now, an hour later I saw this post
| on the front page of HN, Fermi's exclusion principle must work
| for hobbies as well it seems.
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