Well, that would have to be very clever because as you know, normal background noise varies depending on time of day, time of year, solar activity, location and frequency range. The normal background noise can be 20+dbm higher (or even way more depending on EMI) in the same area of the spectrum just 20 miles away. So, someone would have to be pretty bright (as in, smarter than the smartest genius to ever live) to develop something to predict that and then transmit just above it. In fact, this is one of the reasons I question what, if anything, they've actually discovered here.
As noted, I've spent countless hours staring into a spectrum analyzer looking for inter-modulation products in an area of the spectrum which because of location would plainly show up in a different location. And yet you have to find them, because if you don't while your S-N ratio might be okay today those things can (and will) come back to bite you tomorrow (and the reason there is because they are not products of nature, so they vary in different magnitudes (both directions) depending on ERP and many other factors).
Another factor I can't seem to wrap my head around is why anyone is spending (wasting?) time trying to prove the existence of neutrinos using what seems to me to be RF detection methodology. But maybe I've missed something. It seems to me we've got multi-trillion dollar accelerators which can accomplish testing in exponentially more granularity than trying to use RF (something I know a fair bit about, and which is as much art as it is science. Not really, but if you've worked with RF, you know what I'm talking about (i.e. art vs. science)).
edit - I guess the short way to say what I'm trying to say is... The box I need to check on this subject first is the box which says..."This is a legitimate area of study and NOT another government boondoggle and black hole to dump money into just to stroke some tech weenie's fantasy who has spent too many dark winters in Antarctica."
As noted, I've spent countless hours staring into a spectrum analyzer looking for inter-modulation products in an area of the spectrum which because of location would plainly show up in a different location. And yet you have to find them, because if you don't while your S-N ratio might be okay today those things can (and will) come back to bite you tomorrow (and the reason there is because they are not products of nature, so they vary in different magnitudes (both directions) depending on ERP and many other factors).
Another factor I can't seem to wrap my head around is why anyone is spending (wasting?) time trying to prove the existence of neutrinos using what seems to me to be RF detection methodology. But maybe I've missed something. It seems to me we've got multi-trillion dollar accelerators which can accomplish testing in exponentially more granularity than trying to use RF (something I know a fair bit about, and which is as much art as it is science. Not really, but if you've worked with RF, you know what I'm talking about (i.e. art vs. science)).
edit - I guess the short way to say what I'm trying to say is... The box I need to check on this subject first is the box which says..."This is a legitimate area of study and NOT another government boondoggle and black hole to dump money into just to stroke some tech weenie's fantasy who has spent too many dark winters in Antarctica."