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This is a consequence of what was discussed in your previous question, that any real-valued function like $\sin(\omega t)$ consists of both positive and negative frequencies. Multiplying by a complex exponential $e^{i\omega t}$ simply shifts frequency by $\omega$. There are many ways to show this, one way is to simply look it up in a table of Fourier ...

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A real-valued multiply is the same as an AM modulation, where the result includes both upper and lower sidebands. (Similar to the spectrum of an AM radio station on an SDR waterfall.) A complex-valued multiply is more like an SSB modulation (plus carrier, depending on modulator depth and offset). So you only get one sideband, upper sideband if the ...

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That's just the math behind it – everything is alright with these results! You need to write down the formula of the real-valued $\sin(t)$ in terms of $e^{j2\pi t}$ and $e^{-j2\pi t}$, and you'll see that, as shown in your plots, the real-valued harmonic oscillations have a positive and a negative frequency component – so multiplying two of these yields four ...

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If I understand your question correctly, the issue is that you have one graph producing a complex output of an FFT and the other producing a floating point output from an FFT. When you produce an FFT from complex data using a floating point output, you will find that the signal is reflected across the y axis at zero. This is because the floating point ...

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In Radio Astronomy, arrays are phased either by a distributed local oscillator, or by reconstructing the timebase (local atomic clocks synched to GPS) during analysis by also listening to known strong signals. this answer to Why does the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) not include telescopes from Africa, Asia or Australia? describes some of how this is done ...

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In short: yes, it's possible, but it's a bit harder than that. You want to drive all of the receivers from a shared clock, and sample them in phase with one another, to form a "coherent receiver". This requires some hardware work; you can't just plug multiple regular RTL-SDR sticks into a computer and make it work. There are some coherent RTL-SDR ...

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