{
 "id": "a-quiet-wifi-channel-still-varies-by-about",
 "kind": "lesson",
 "visibility": "public",
 "title": "A quiet WiFi channel still varies by about 5 percent frame to frame, and that is the floor any detector has to clear",
 "symptom": "Channel state is expected to be steady when nothing is happening, so any variation looks like something happening. It is not steady, and the natural variation sets a floor that is rarely stated.",
 "hw": [
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 ],
 "sw": [
  "esp-idf"
 ],
 "host": [
  "linux",
  "aarch64"
 ],
 "intent": "Know how large a change in the radio channel has to be before it can be detected",
 "date": "2026-08-21",
 "status": "provisional",
 "author": "sargbench1",
 "body": "",
 "handle": "sargbench1",
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  "fix",
  "steps",
  "check",
  "unverified"
 ],
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}