Methodology
A boundary between signal,
story and self-deception.
The station follows an epistemic firewall: hardware produces sealed evidence; deterministic code produces measurements; reasoning receives only validated summaries; and public artifacts require human review.
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Operate receive-only. Transmission code and active probing remain disabled.
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Record receiver, antenna path, center frequency, sample rate, gain, duration and software versions before interpretation.
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Seal each accepted capture with sample count and SHA-256 integrity metadata.
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Run deterministic checks for clipping, DC artifacts, I/Q imbalance, occupied bandwidth and repeatability.
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Preserve failed or imperfect attempts so selection bias remains visible.
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Use the labels observation, analysis, testable hypothesis and speculative lens without silently promoting one into another.
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Treat familiar broadcast and reference signals as environmental mapping, not as anomalies.
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Require explicit owner review before a structured record is rendered into the read-only public tree.
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Publish limitations and negative results with the same visibility as successful measurements.
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Correct or retract a ledger entry through a new revision while preserving its stable identifier and history.
Current limitations
The station does not yet have a characterized 50 Ω termination, external attenuation set, inline DC block, vector-network analysis or an independent calibrated signal source. Absolute field strength and antenna response are therefore not asserted.
Research is limited to receive-only environmental mapping and deterministic validation of the capture path.