[NLRS] Aircraft scatter & WSPR tracking of the missing Malaysian airliner

[Rob Jahnke]

This is really fascinating on many levels. How exactly did Richard Godfrey
do this?
Here are two links where you can find downloads for his papers (pdf) about
his techniques. Richard Godfrey is one smart guy. You can read about him
here.
https://www.mh370search.com/about/

The first link describes how he used WSPR data to track a flight that was
mistaken for MH370 and thus eliminate that flight as a possible sighting of
MH370.
https://www.mh370search.com/2021/09/26/maldives-aircraft-sighting/

The second link gives the details of how he tracked MH370 using WSPR data.
https://www.mh370search.com/2021/12/31/mh370-flight-path/

He REALLY HAS added very valuable knowledge to help find MH370 using the
WSPR network.

If you need to convince someone there is value in amateur radio activities,
this is a great example.

Rob K0XL

On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 7:56 PM Paul Husby <husby002 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I first read about this in the weekly FlightAware newsletter a few
> months ago (check it out, most weeks there is something interesting).
> Those of us on the higher bands have at least occasionally observed
> aircraft scatter bringing a signal out of the noise for maybe long
> enough to complete a contact.  I had no idea there was data going back
> to the time MH370 went missing eight years ago to possibly track its
> path, but that is apparently the case.
>
> This article shows how WSPR was used to get a preliminary path:
>
> https://www.airlineratings.com/news/mh370-set-off-radio-tripwires-confirming-location-says-new-report/
>
> Apparently this fellow Richard Godfrey has processed a lot more data to
> be able to plot a detailed flight path that includes unexpected turns
> and a loop.  (There is a neat little demo video of aircraft scatter with
> a plane crossing the path to an FM station on 94.2 MHz.)  The detailed
> path can be seen in this new story on 60 Minutes Australia:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq-d4Kl8Xh4&ab_channel=60MinutesAustralia
>
> It's all possible in this case because there is so little aircraft
> activity over the Indian Ocean;  at the time, there was only one other
> plane in the region.  That plane was of course on a known flight path,
> so it is easily filtered out and what remains would seem to be the
> missing airliner.  Quite fascinating!
>
> 73
> Paul W0UC
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