[time-nuts] Story in the Economist about GPS jamming
Bob Camp
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Tue Jul 30 23:49:38 UTC 2013
Hi
A sector antenna autocorrelateor should be a pretty useful gizmo for tracking GPS jammers. You have most of the gear already in a cell site. Software patch and away you go. Of course you would need pretty good timing, but that's not impossible ….
Bob
On Jul 30, 2013, at 7:27 PM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX <caf at omen.com> wrote:
> Don't junk your ADF just yet.
>
> On 07/30/2013 11:46 AM, Scott McGrath wrote:
>> It doesn't It simply increases the risk that GPS will be made unavailable due to events outside the operators control Hence system risk profile is high
>>
>> Was not so high when LORAN was available as aviation, maritime and timing applications could gracefully degrade to LORAN in the event GPS was unavailable
>>
>> Now if GPS availability is denied we are back to maps bowdoins sextants and chronometers for navigation except for the vanishingly small number of ships and planes equipped with INS
>>
>> Scott
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Jul 30, 2013, at 1:28 PM, "Lester Veenstra" <lester at veenstras.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Yes. LOS jamming of the civilian code is easy; However whey do you think the
>>> use of LEO aids this?
>>>
>>>>> Any competent engineer could have told the powers that be that a
>>>>> satellite system based in LEO has a relatively high risk profile from
>>>>> the Universe/hostile activity/spoofing and jamming
>>>
>>> Lester B Veenstra MØYCM K1YCM W8YCM
>>> lester at veenstras.com
>>>
>>> US Postal Address:
>>> 5 Shrine Club Drive
>>> HC84 Box 89C
>>> Keyser WV 26726
>>> GPS: 39.33675 N 78.9823527 W (Google)
>>> GPS: 39.33682 N 78.9023741 W (GPSDO)
>>>
>>>
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>>> Home: +1-304-289-6057
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