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Wichita
Wichita listens to the radio bands where trouble first becomes audible: maritime, aviation, and broadcast, live off the air. The console shows which frequencies are busy, how strong they are, and how they change.
Two jobs, one instrument: notice threats early, and find people in distress — including the ones who never manage to say “mayday.”
beyond the words
When no one says mayday.
Transcription misses what matters most on a bad day at sea: breathing, strain, a voice working harder than its words. Wichita scores voice stress alongside what's said, so laboured breathing, or panic underneath a calm sentence, registers as a signal of its own, in any of the languages that share the Mediterranean air.
the console
Spectrum, waterfall, channels.
The operator sees the band live: a waterfall of signal over time, active demodulators, channel statistics, and a maritime emergency monitor. When an alert fires, it carries the audio and the reason, so a person can judge it in seconds.
posture
A research platform, plainly.
Wichita is a working research platform, not a product for sale. It runs on software-defined radio hardware in Malta and is built in the same air it listens to: real channels, real conditions, real signals.