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> ...hijacking it would not be trivial. You need to be in the line of site and be able to produce enough power to overwhelm the real signal, which isn't trivial
by lb1lf 7y ago
> ...hijacking it would not be trivial. You need to be in the line of site and be able to produce enough power to overwhelm the real signal, which isn't trivial at those frequencies.
-While power at 10GHz is non-trivial (though significantly less so now than in the eighties!), you can cheat by being closer to the remote tower than the official source, as received power is reduced by the square of the distance from the transmitter.
- xxpor 7y agoThat's a good point. I've never really gotten to play with parabolic antennas though, how much would being at the wrong angle affect reception?
- ldiracdelta 7y agoYou can find "lobe diagrams" for common antennas. You just look at the angle that the receiving point is at in relation to the transmitting antenna in the lobe diagram.