Throughout September, the local radio station in the Oise region to the north of Paris is overlaying its programmes with a 16 -
kilohertz signal inaudible to the human ear.
Emanating from seas 4500 metres deep and 1600 kilometres west of Perth, the 37.5
kilohertz signals were picked up on 6 April along an arc that satellite signals had recently pinpointed as flight MH370's final, fatal route.
Not exact matches
Dolphins can produce sound at frequencies up to 200
kilohertz — around 10 times as high as the highest pitch we can hear — and can also shift a
signal's pitch or stretch it out over a long period of time.
I borrowed one that could detect
signals from 100
kilohertz (kHz), just below the frequency of long - wave radio stations, up to 3 gigahertz (GHz), somewhat above the 2.4 GHz portion of the spectrum used by Wi - Fi connections (see «Radio Ways,» below).
The sensor detected digitally modulated magnetic field
signals with strengths of 1 picotesla (one millionth of the Earth's magnetic field strength) and at very low frequencies, below 1
kilohertz (kHz).
But 300 times a second, a charged electrode in the MIT researchers» device alternates between a high - voltage, low - frequency (1 -
kilohertz)
signal and a 3.3 - volt high - frequency (200 -
kilohertz)
signal.