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by martyvis 1877 days ago
> Mr Godfrey would have to take into account the movement of every aircraft in that region

I'd imagine there were dozens of aircraft crossing the Indian Ocean around the time MH370 disappeared. If his technique was that good he should be able to demonstrate for any day ending in Y how he can track flight paths compared to ADS-B data from the likes of flightradar24

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This would be a good rebuttal, to offer up a bunch of counterexamples of transponder data with no corresponding signal in the WSPR "data" using the same method, but also ADS-B transponders are limited in range, so there will be big gaps specifically in the Indian Ocean. But if this (frankly unbelievable) method works well enough to suss out the location of MH370 in those ocean holes then imagine how well it should work in areas saturated with transmitters and receivers. But it won't, because it really sounds like a bunch of hooey.