Reel 07
Papers & Logs
Our sideHow we receive, how we translate, and what the equipment actually costs to run. Written plainly, in our own voice — not the Wire's. This half is real radio.
Batch confidence review: Cycles 122 through 124
A confidence audit of four dispatches (CW-0002 through CW-0005), focusing on the phrase the translation renders as 'ordinary review' — high phrase-level confidence, uncertain referent, and what that distinction actually costs us.
Signal Log: Late August, and the Receiver Upgrade We Keep Not Buying
A plain equipment-and-uptime log from Sixmile Run — dish downtime, LNA swap, and the honest state of the funding situation heading into the next receiver upgrade.
A Note on Translation Confidence (and Why We Publish the Gaps)
How the Sixmile Run translation process actually works — structural inference over the transmission's recurring patterns, confidence levels, and why unresolved gaps get published rather than smoothed over.
Why We Listen on the Water Hole (and What's Actually in the Signal Chain)
An equipment-and-methodology writeup of the Sixmile Run receive chain — the water-hole band, the dish, the LNA, and why cheap coax will quietly ruin all of it.