We only see the carrier because it has such narrow bandwidth, the modulated data is for us not distinguishable from the noise. FYI, at this data rate the carrier contains 25% of the transmitted power.
The "live" plot (with the peak) uses indeed 1Hz bins (of 1 second), that we average over the last 2-3 minutes to reduce the noise. We could go even narrower, I might give that a try on the recorded data.
Thank you for the clarification. Recently I've been reading a lot about tracking of space objects (though much closer ones, on LEO/MEO), so this is some very interesting stuff for me!
https://www.camras.nl/en/blog/2025/first-venus-bounce-with-t...