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by gfv 1598 days ago
You are very welcome to tune to 4625kHz USB yourself, or use a suitable European WebSDR if you're in the US.
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I am a ham and I have a pretty good antenna farm going. Being a ham with plenty of time behind my own SDR is how I know this is fake.
You've been very vocal about how this is supposedly fake so far, but you've been very mysterious. You say it's so obvious that any ham can instantly tell why, yet you treat the reason like some kind of secret that only you must hold. I can't help but think you may be the one spreading misinformation. You're welcome to prove me wrong though.
I’m going to wait a while and see how many more fake news articles come out about this before I describe exactly why these reports are fake. In the mean while you’re welcome to try to locate I/Q recordings of the incident. Trust me, none will be offered.
I’m mostly a radar guy so I’m missing it — is it the fact that we only see the upper sideband, as though the signal is analytic? I don’t know this software (only a bit of GNUradio now and then) so I don’t know if the green bar up top is just the filtered passband or what. If it’s supposed to be the passband, I get that some of the spectra (“demo2,” for example) creep out of it, which is fishy. Any insight is appreciated!
You're not a very good HAM then.