Re:The 5GHz “Problem” for Wi-Fi Networks: DFS (2018)
by wkat4242 on Monday December 26, 2022 @08:01AM
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They wouldn't get this from the actual radar though. It must have been the result of further investigation.
I was mainly referring to the 'radars are good at pinpointing things' comment from the OP :) I wanted to clarify that an AP on this frequency won't show up as a dot on a radar screen. For the distance to be captured it must have an actual reflection.
You can even see some of the lines I mentioned in that pic!
Re:The 5GHz “Problem” for Wi-Fi Networks: DFS (2018)
by Jenda_ on Monday December 26, 2022 @07:59PM
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Radar receivers have a secondary output (or at least a waveguide coupler) where you can connect arbitrary equipment. So you connect standard wifi card to it, enable monitor mode and listen to all the MAC addresses and SSIDs (if they are not hidden) - directly though the giant radar antenna. (I really need to try it with our radar, I currently only detect packets based on their wide spectrum, but I have never decoded them)
There is even a software-based wifi demodulator (https://www.nuand.com/bladerf-wiphy/) so you can try to decode it from the IQ data, but they usually don't have enough bandwidth.
https://www.shmu.sk/sk/?page=2037