This is way over my head at the moment (and possibly at every moment?).. but sounds interesting, albeit... somewhat discouraging?:
Despite many stories in the media repeating claims that historical WSPR data can be used to track MH370, there are many reasons why these claims are patently false. There is broad agreement among acknowledgeable researchers that have investigated these claims, and a handful of these researchers have documented their concerns.
“I do not believe that historical data from the WSPR network can provide any information useful for aircraft tracking.”-Prof. Joe Taylor (K1JT), Nobel Prize in Physics, Inventor of WSPR
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Considering the very favorable assumptions we made regarding propagation loss, incident angle, and noise floor, we can be quite confident that the WSPR signal originating in Switzerland at 17:16 UTC did not interact with MH370 in any way that was detectable in Australia, as was claimed.
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This article attempts to lay out in simple technical terms why WSPR data cannot be used to track aircraft over long distances, and certainly cannot be used to reconstruct the flight path of MH370. At long distances and at low transmission powers, the received signals from hypothetical aircraft scatter are simply too weak by many orders of magnitude.
WSPR Can’t Find MH370 « MH370 and Other Investigations
PS In the article above, it links to this youtube, which seems to dispute the info in the posts upthread regarding Richard Godfrey's theory.:
Despite many stories in the media repeating claims that historical WSPR data can be used to track MH370, there are many reasons why these claims are patently false. There is broad agreement among acknowledgeable researchers that have investigated these claims, and a handful of these researchers have documented their concerns.
“I do not believe that historical data from the WSPR network can provide any information useful for aircraft tracking.”-Prof. Joe Taylor (K1JT), Nobel Prize in Physics, Inventor of WSPR
....
Considering the very favorable assumptions we made regarding propagation loss, incident angle, and noise floor, we can be quite confident that the WSPR signal originating in Switzerland at 17:16 UTC did not interact with MH370 in any way that was detectable in Australia, as was claimed.
....
This article attempts to lay out in simple technical terms why WSPR data cannot be used to track aircraft over long distances, and certainly cannot be used to reconstruct the flight path of MH370. At long distances and at low transmission powers, the received signals from hypothetical aircraft scatter are simply too weak by many orders of magnitude.
WSPR Can’t Find MH370 « MH370 and Other Investigations
PS In the article above, it links to this youtube, which seems to dispute the info in the posts upthread regarding Richard Godfrey's theory.:
