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To: Aussie Dasher

Is US military GPS jam proof?


42 posted on 03/17/2010 7:48:02 PM PDT by givemELL (Does Taiwan Meet the Criteria to Qualify as an "Overseas Territory of the United States"? by Richar)
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To: givemELL
No,they are not.

I have jammed (it really was an accident) a GPS satellite - the signal we (accidental) emitted, the bird failed to receive it's time update from the source in CO.

Then again, not everyone has access to a multi-gigawatt (Erp)autotracking jammer. The point is, almost anything can be jammed with brute force jamming.

Ya, it was that high power - we would bounce a signal from the moon from time to time as part of a test routine. I miss my old job, to say the least.

47 posted on 03/17/2010 10:44:01 PM PDT by ASOC (In case of attack, tune to 640 kilocycles or 1240 kilocycles on your AM dial.)
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To: givemELL
Is US military GPS jam proof?

Nothing that uses radio waves is jam-proof.

Some secure comms hop between frequencies, so that jamming is impractical -- it would require jamming way too much spectrum, would shut down way too much RF communication, and would be dead easy to track. I don't know if secure GPS uses something similar, but even that could be denied for a short period of time in a small area.

48 posted on 03/17/2010 10:58:07 PM PDT by ReignOfError
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