A new map produced by UK aerospace engineer Richard Godfrey, the lead in the refinement of WSPR – Weak Signal Propagation Reporter – breakthrough tracking technology, pinpoints the probable location of MH370.
The map below shows the MH370 location area identified by the University of Western Australia in yellow, the area searched in 2018 by Ocean Infinity in dusky pink and the area identified by Mr Godfrey’s team this year in cyan (top right).
It will be noted that more than half of the WSPR area was not searched by OI in 2018.
Here is a wider map giving perspective.
Last week a technical paper “How does WSPR detect Aircraft over short Distances? Technical Paper“ authored by Richard Godfrey, Dr. Hannes Coetzee (ZS6BZP) and Prof. Simon Maskell, was published which explains how the concept works over short distances in detail.
Put simply when an aircraft flies through a radio (Weak Signal Propagation Reporter WSPR) link it disturbs the signal and that signal and the resulting disturbances have been stored in a global database since 2008.
The location is detailed in a 232-page report previously published and is 1,560km or 842nmi west of Perth (277 degrees) – slightly north of that previously thought. The aircraft is believed to be resting at a depth of up to 4,000m. You can read that report here.
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