We will try to get out of the vicious circle. And find a new effective and feasible detection technique. It may be simpler than we expect. If what we are looking for is an electrical signal, it has no frequency (but it has a pulse. The number of pulses per second is the frequency of the signal in hertz). These pulses are very sharp, not like radio frequencies, they are not sine or square, but like the teeth of a comb. They may not appear on an oscilloscope. When you look at them, you think they are high frequencies in gigahertz ( modified ). This is a similarity.
And God knows best about His creation.
There is a point to be made that may seem reckless...the signal directly on the ground is 20 times stronger or more than it is in the open air.
An illustrative image of the signal shape.