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This part is ... a worry. > He was working on a job inside the Newark Liberty International Airport when his jamming signal interrupted air traffic control. S

This part is ... a worry. > He was working on a job inside the Newark Liberty International Airport when his jamming signal interrupted air traffic control. Shouldn't it have better protections against a $25 internet purchased jammer? Are such protections possible? Also, what would happen if you used this while in an Uber?

Merad 10y ago
> Shouldn't it have better protections against a $25 internet purchased jammer? Are such protections possible? I don't think so. GPS is a purely passive system. If someone is broadcasting a signal in your immediately area that overpowers the GPS satellites, there isn't much you can do.
- contingencies 10y ago
  Along the same lines, I'm surprised there aren't well publicized amateur UAV combat competitions with directional GPS jammers and EMP weapons yet.
- knodi123 10y ago
  > If someone is broadcasting a signal in your immediately area that overpowers the GPS satellites, there isn't much you can do. directional receivers?
  - sathackr 10y ago
    It would be pretty difficult to track 3-12 satellites at a time with a directional antenna, particularly with both the satellites and the plane in motion. You could employ something like a directional antenna who's radiation pattern will basically look like a half-circle, with the flat part facing down, but, radiation patterns are not black and white, even if 90% of the energy is received from the main side, there is always some signal still received from unwanted directions. With as weak as GPS signals are, it wouldn't take much to drown them out, even on the back side of a directional antenna.
  - grkvlt 10y ago
    Yes, that's pretty much how military anti-jamming works. You have a steerable (via phase switching, not physically moving) antenna that can form a beam with nulls pointing at the sources of interference/jammers. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-forcing_precoding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-forcing_precoding for more info.

Merad 10y ago

> Shouldn't it have better protections against a $25 internet purchased jammer? Are such protections possible? I don't think so. GPS is a purely passive system. If someone is broadcasting a signal in your immediately area that overpowers the GPS satellites, there isn't much you can do.

contingencies 10y ago
Along the same lines, I'm surprised there aren't well publicized amateur UAV combat competitions with directional GPS jammers and EMP weapons yet.
knodi123 10y ago
> If someone is broadcasting a signal in your immediately area that overpowers the GPS satellites, there isn't much you can do. directional receivers?
- sathackr 10y ago
  It would be pretty difficult to track 3-12 satellites at a time with a directional antenna, particularly with both the satellites and the plane in motion. You could employ something like a directional antenna who's radiation pattern will basically look like a half-circle, with the flat part facing down, but, radiation patterns are not black and white, even if 90% of the energy is received from the main side, there is always some signal still received from unwanted directions. With as weak as GPS signals are, it wouldn't take much to drown them out, even on the back side of a directional antenna.
- grkvlt 10y ago
  Yes, that's pretty much how military anti-jamming works. You have a steerable (via phase switching, not physically moving) antenna that can form a beam with nulls pointing at the sources of interference/jammers. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-forcing_precoding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-forcing_precoding for more info.