[Boatanchors] LightSquared

[J. Forster]

The design of jammers is just about trivial and are widely available. They
cannot stop anybody home brewing them.

Was the FCC ever able to kill "Blue Boxes" or control CBers? It's "Kill a
chicken to scare the monkeys".

Furthermore, a GPS jammer does not to be high power and easily DFable, or
be on all the time, to create havoc.

GPS is very vulnerable.

-John

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>
> Interesting to note that the FCC has just issued what amounts to a
> "Cease and Desist" order to a guy selling GPS jammers.  See the
> following URL:
>
> http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-12-1591A1.pdf
>
>
> - Jim, KL7CC
>
>
> On 10/9/2012 12:07 PM, revcom at wbsnet.org wrote:
>> Could be that is why Garmin is now incorporating the Russian GLONASS
>> freqs
>> in their new GPS recvrs?
>>
>> Nothing to do with boatanchors however........
>>
>> Rod
>> KØEQH
>>
>>
>>> The signals coming in to a GPS receiver are in the range
>>> of a few microvolts (millionths of a Volt).
>>>
>>> Signals from the LightSquared tranmitters show up at the
>>> GPS receiver HUNDREDS, maybe THOUSANDS, of times stronger!
>>>
>>> Even if they are not at the same frequency, the GPS
>>> receiver simply collapses from overload and quits
>>> providing location information.
>>>
>>> And yes, GPS reception in a fairly small area is easy to do.
>>> Think of the problems a half-dozen jammers around any major
>>> metropolitan airport or military air field could cause!
>>>
>>> And the FAA is in the process of turning most all flight
>>> control over to GPS! Un-friggin'-believable. And the "suits"
>>> will NOT listen to folks with practical experience. Disaster
>>> just waiting to happen!
>>>
>>> SHEESH!
>>>
>
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