Ask HN: Are there any projects to do historical archiving of RF spectrum?

Re:Ask HN: Are there any projects to do historical archiving... by derptacious on Thursday July 28, 2016 @06:07PM (#12183557)

This is super interesting! And if anyone else is curious about creating a project that monitors the range of RF amplitude and frequency at many data points around the world, then send me your contact info! I want to see a record of this spectrum (human and non-human made) in frequency and amplitude to see how much it is (and hopefully "has") changed in physical space. I think interesting things would come out of this data.

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Re:Ask HN: Are there any projects to do historical archiving... by adamgamble on Thursday July 28, 2016 @06:15PM (#12183599)

Any idea if its legal? I assume it is but I have no idea.

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Re:Ask HN: Are there any projects to do historical archiving... by gravypod on Thursday July 28, 2016 @11:59PM (#12184933)

Listening is 100% fine in the USA. Transmission without a ham license, and in certain bands, will net you some fines and maybe jail time.

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Re:Ask HN: Are there any projects to do historical archiving... by vitovito on Friday July 29, 2016 @12:52AM (#12185078)

Any spectrum recordings would almost be guaranteed to include copyrighted content, and in the US distributing those recordings would fall afoul of the DMCA.

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Re:Ask HN: Are there any projects to do historical archiving... by gravypod on Friday July 29, 2016 @06:18PM (#12190468)

That's not how RF works. The courts have heard cases like this. Look up the talk on CreepyDOL from defcon.

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