[Spooks] Son of Sam..Smarter than we Think?

[Eric F. Richards]

I dunno, the FFT of the thing is interesting, too.

I may be talking out of my rear here, but I hope the idea is
to share info and ideas rather than denigrate.  That said, here
goes...

I've never been in the armed forces, nor have I worked for a TLA, nor
do I know anyone who does/did (or would admit to).  But I'm wondering
what the raw enlisted man goes through to get from high-school education
to manning a station in the back of an EP-3.  I'd guess that a relatively
early exercise would be to find, DF (from a single moving point like a
plane) and characterise a signal.  So, I'd want it to be easy to find,
(DSB, with an easily identifiable signature to know it is what you should
be chasing) and also include a data section which would be grossly analyzed
(bandwidth, data rate, words in its alphabet, etc.).

Obviously I have no idea what *really* happens, but that's just a guess.
They certainly do more than take an audio-bandwidth snapshot and move on.

I know that some could care less what this is and expect it to be pirates
of some flavor, but when the FFT shows discrete steps in each band's
signal level that change in interesting ways... when it is on multiple
frequencies simultaneously, when propagation effects stand out like a
sore thumb compared to what you normally see...  I can't buy the pirate
idea.

Eric
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