[time-nuts] Re: GPS failed

[Hal Murray]

Andy Talbot said:
> I also heard a case of a GPS antenna going unstable, oscillating and taking
> out most of the boats in a marina.   The Radio Communications Agency (as our
> enforcement body was then, before it became Ofcom) had to be called out to
> identify the problem. 

There was an interesting story about a similar event in GPS World back in Jan 
2003
This was from TV antenna amplifiers that were oscillating in/near the GPS band.
It/they took out the Moss Landing (Monterey Bay) harbor.

The Hunt for RFI
  http://gpsworld.com/the-hunt-rfi/
Unjamming a Coast Harbor
James R. Clynch, Andrew A. Parker, George Badger, Wilbur R. Vincent, Paul 
McGill, Richard W. Adler


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