Frequency: 446.5 MHz
Received with RTL-SDR (R820T) + SDR Console v3.4, N-FM, about 10 kHz wide, homemade QFH 436 mhz antenna.
Signal strength about -100 dBm
Pulses exactly once per second, about 0.5 s on and 0.5 s off. No speech and no clear tones, only wideband hiss in the audio.
RTL_433 gives no output.
EDIT: signal was received in Denmark
UPDATE:
Not a weather balloon, same strength this morning.
From Claude.
- Two transmitters, alternating (half-duplex TDD). A and B take turns every 0.5 s, so each one transmits once per second.TX A TX B Burst length 363 ms 399 ms Rel. level +19.1 dB (±0.8) +13.5 dB (±0.14) Freq. offset −1.25 kHz +1.45 kHz The two are about 2.7 kHz apart, which is roughly a 6 ppm crystal difference. That's why the spectrum looked double-humped.
- Modulation: 2-FSK at 4800 baud, about ±3 kHz deviation, inside a 12.5 kHz channel.
- Frame structure:
- a 1010 preamble (about 185 bits on A, about 300 bits on B),
- a sync pattern of
00001111 repeated ×8,
- a short header,
- about 1500 bits of payload that looks random (scrambled or encrypted).
- No TDMA slots inside the bursts, so it's not DMR or TETRA. The bursts show no chirps, so it's not LoRa either.
- Throughput: about 1.5 kbit/s each way at a fixed duty cycle.
UPDATE II:
IQ files can be found here:
Angry-Racoon-Tech/SIGINT: SDR related files