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Truck driver has GPS jammer, accidentally jams Newark airport
- gohrt 13y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6123535 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6123535 GPS signals are surprisingly easy to disrupt (economist.com) 208 points by douglasfshearer 13 days ago | comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4122654 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4122654 Illegal GPS Jammers Are Widespread, Study Finds (techweekeurope.co.uk) 65 points by baha_man 421 days ago | 52 comments
- yuhong 13y agoLooks like the company was Tilcon.
- wil421 13y agoAnd this is why GPS and cell phone jammers are illegal...
- cnvogel 13y agoI'd call it “accidental” when, for example, a selfmade TV antenna with amplifier starts to oscillate and thereby blocks GPS reception in a harbor: http://gpsworld.com/the-hunt-rfi/ http://gpsworld.com/the-hunt-rfi/ But the jamming device owned by the grossly negligent truck driver performed even better than designed (if one would call these brute-force wideband jammers “designed.”). And the fine imposed on the guy for operating those deliberately is well earned. {edit: spelling, wording}