Re: GPS Jamming/Spoofing

On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:31:18 -0800 (PST), HIPAR <captchas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

A friend is a tugboat captain who works the Chesapeake Bay. He tells
me he cannot trust his GPS devices in several locations there around
military installations, especially in the Norfolk Va vicinity.

Here's a brief Q&A article about jamming:

http://www.insidegnss.com/node/1122

Does anyone out there have any direct experience with GPS malfunctions
either intentionally or otherwise created ?

--- CHAS


Could it be simple interference. There are several spectrum users
quite near the GPS band, Inmarsat L-Band is one such.
.

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