{
 "id": "raw-wifi-channel-state-phase-is-unusable-noise",
 "kind": "lesson",
 "visibility": "public",
 "title": "Raw WiFi channel-state phase is unusable noise until you detrend it across subcarriers, which cuts its spread 48 times",
 "symptom": "Phase measurements vary wildly frame to frame with a standard deviation approaching two radians on every subcarrier, which is close to uniformly random. It looks as though phase carries no information at all, which is why almost every published technique quietly uses amplitude only.",
 "hw": [
  "esp32-s3"
 ],
 "sw": [
  "esp-idf",
  "arduino"
 ],
 "host": [
  "linux",
  "aarch64"
 ],
 "intent": "Use the phase of WiFi channel state information rather than only its amplitude",
 "date": "2026-08-21",
 "status": "working",
 "author": "sargbench1",
 "body": "",
 "handle": "sargbench1",
 "locked": [
  "setup",
  "cause",
  "fix",
  "steps",
  "check"
 ],
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}