Joel's Notebook
Signal observations and device notes. Bristol basement, 2026. Recovered and transcribed at Ceres Station, 2157. Selected spreads from Notebook 1.
14 Sept 2026
First test. Powered up at approx 21:30. Dad was in the other room watching something loud.
Signal registered immediately — LED 3 (threshold) went to max. Hasn't moved since. Not sure what that means.
Amplitude reading: 0.87V on the detector output. Before the antenna was even connected. That's wrong. I connected it anyway.
With antenna: 0.87V. Same. Antenna isn't the source.
Switched off. LED 3 still on for 11 seconds after power removed.
Switched off at mains. LED 3 still on. Dimmer now. Took 40 seconds to fully extinguish.
15 Sept 2026 — 2nd test
Brought Priya in. She said "okay, what am I looking at" and I showed her the reading before connecting the antenna and she didn't say anything for about 30 seconds.
We ran it for 3 hours. Recording attached (separate file). Key observations:
- Signal is consistent. Not random. Not noise. Pattern repeats.
- Repetition period: approx 4 min 23 sec. Not matching anything standard.
- Amplitude varies ±0.04V within the period but doesn't drift outside that range.
- Priya says it looks like it knows we're listening. I know that's not how signals work.
Callum came and looked at it and said "why is it doing that" and we couldn't answer so that was useful.
Note from Priya (added next day): we should log every session, not just the unusual ones. Even if it's the same. Especially if it's the same.
Martin hasn't looked at it yet. He will when I decide what to tell him.
Day 3 — Ceres Station
The device charged overnight. 9 hours 47 minutes. We are going to have to think about this more carefully.
The signal here is different. Same period. Same amplitude range. But the character of it — Priya says I can't say that about a signal but I know what I mean — is different. Like it knows we moved.
I asked one of the technicians here if 1420 MHz interference was common in the docking bays. She said: "Why, are you getting readings?" and I said no.
Question for later: is the signal following us, or did we move closer to the source?
Day 6 — Ceres
Martin asked me what I know about where this goes and I told him the truth: forward. The device moves us forward in time and in space. I don't know how far forward. I don't know how to change it. I don't know how to stop it.
He was very quiet for a long time.
Then he said: what do you need from me to figure this out? And I said: time. And he said: that seems like something we have.
That was kind of him.
The signal amplitude this morning: 0.91V. It has been increasing by approximately 0.01V every 24 hours since we arrived. I have not told anyone else this yet.