📡 Why Real Threat Detection Takes 6+ Months of 24/7 Monitoring

🧠 Overview

Finding and documenting a true covert threat — especially RF-based threats like Voice-to-Skull (V2K), directed energy, or remote neural monitoring — is not a quick process.
It requires months of non-stop, high-resolution surveillance with professional-grade tools.

This isn’t just theory — it’s the real-world process used by experts in Technical Surveillance Countermeasures (TSCM).

⏳ Why It Takes 6 Months (or Longer)

1. Threat Signals Are Intermittent

• Real attacks don’t transmit constantly.
• They pulse, hop, or only activate when specific conditions occur (such as presence detection or remote commands).
• Some covert devices may only transmit for seconds per day.

👉 Without full-time monitoring, you would completely miss them.

2. High-Resolution Capture Is Critical

• Standard RF scans (even professional sweepers) are not enough.
• You must capture at very low Resolution Bandwidths (RBW) — often under 300 Hz — to see tiny, stealthy signals hidden in the noise floor.
• High-resolution IQ recording (raw signal data) is needed to save proof.

⚡ You can’t just “spot-check” a signal and call it evidence.

3. Trigger-Based Recording Is Essential

• Setting triggers is the only realistic way to manage this.
• Triggers detect small energy spikes, patterns, or modulation characteristics.
• When a trigger is activated, the system automatically captures the raw IQ data for forensic analysis.

Without trigger systems:

• You would have to manually watch the spectrum 24/7 — impossible for humans.

🛠️ Daily Sweep Review, Classification, and Smart Manual Triggering

📅 Daily Review of Spectrum Sweeps

• Each day, long-running spectrum sweeps must be reviewed manually.
• You’re not reviewing IQ captures directly — you’re studying the live sweep view across your full frequency range.
• The goal is to spot unusual spikes, transient bursts, or hidden patterns that could indicate a threat.

🧠 Classifying the Entire Spectrum

• Before you can detect a real threat, you must classify every signal the device sees:
  • Local Wi-Fi and access points
  • Cellular towers (LTE, 5G, 4G)
  • Smart meters, IoT devices
  • Satellite transmissions
  • Known background noise and emissions
• Each signal must be identified, mapped, and logged so you know what is normal for your environment.
• Anything that doesn’t match your classified environment becomes a potential anomaly worth deeper investigation.

⚡ Spectrum classification is time-consuming — and it’s the backbone of real threat detection.

🎯 Manual Trigger Setup for IQ Capture

• You don’t capture IQ data constantly — it would be too large to store.
• Instead, based on your sweep review and classifications:
  • You manually select suspicious frequencies or energy thresholds.
  • You configure capture triggers to only record IQ data when a threshold is crossed.
• Smart triggering ensures you capture the right data, without overwhelming your system with irrelevant noise.

⚙️ This requires skill and experience — triggers must be based on a solid understanding of your baseline environment, which only comes from weeks or months of manual classification and review.

🛡️ Shielded Environments Increase Success

Whenever possible, monitoring should occur in a shielded room or Faraday cage:

🔒 Shielding reduces false positives and allows you to detect incredibly faint or hidden signals.

📋 The Full Process Looks Like This

1. Setup: High-resolution equipment (e.g., BB60C, SM200C) is installed with proper antennas and shielding.
2. 24/7 Spectrum Sweeping: Ongoing sweep captures the RF environment continuously.
3. Daily Manual Sweep Review: Operators review sweep data for unusual events.
4. Full Spectrum Classification: Every visible signal is identified, mapped, and logged.
5. Trigger Programming: Customized triggers are set for suspicious activity.
6. Triggered IQ Data Capture: IQ recordings are made only when triggers activate.
7. Anomaly Isolation: Unclassified or abnormal signals are flagged for deeper forensic analysis.
8. Chain of Custody Logging: All recordings are properly logged as potential evidence.

📈 After 6+ months, you build a true RF fingerprint of the environment —
and you gain the ability to catch intermittent, hidden threats.

🚫 Common Myths vs Reality

✅ Final Thought

If someone claims they can find a threat in one day, they are either:

• Untrained, or
• Scamming you.

🎯 Real threat detection takes patience, precision, daily sweep review, full classification, and smart capture triggering.