[aprssig] GPS Jamming On The Rise

[Greg D.]

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> From: ve7gdh at rac.ca
> To: aprssig at lists.tapr.org
> Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:09:08 -0700
> Subject: Re: [aprssig] GPS Jamming On The Rise
> 
> Greg  KO6TH wrote...
> 
>> It would seem to me that this is an untapped opportunity for the Ham 
>> community to freshen up our T-hunting skills, and be ready for the day 
>> when these things become more than just a nuisance. The trick is, how 
>> would you practice this legally? We can't exactly deploy one of these 
>> in the woods somewhere without violating the law ourselves...
> 
> You could just locate existing sources of jamming sigals and notify the 
> authorities without violating any laws. Setting up a jamming device 
> yourself would be a different story. However, if one was deployed in the 
> woods, it shouldn't affect anyone else if the effective jamming range 
> was only 10 - 20 metres. If it had a much greater range, you might not 
> be the only ones tracking it down. (Bring your earplugs!)
> 
> 73 es cul - Keith VE7GDH
> --

Right, in an actual incident we would only need to receive.  But, how
would we know ahead of time that our equipment would actually
detect the interference, and how would we practice using the equipment
to actually locate something?

My reference to the woods regarded where many hidden transmitter hunts
are held.  Setting up a jammer that wasn't near anything worth jamming
would still be illegal, no?  Besides, it would have to ID every 10 minutes, 
which would kind of give it away...

Greg  KO6TH

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