Truck driver has GPS jammer, accidentally jams Newark airport

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Post by Andome » Mon, Aug 12, 2013, 6:23 PM UTC

Truck driver has GPS jammer, accidentally jams Newark airport
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Re: Truck driver has GPS jammer, accidentally jams Newark airport

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Post by gohrt » Mon, Aug 12, 2013, 7:42 PM UTC

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 Illegal GPS Jammers Are Widespread, Study Finds (techweekeurope.co.uk) 65 points by baha_man 421 days ago | 52 comments

Re: Truck driver has GPS jammer, accidentally jams Newark airport

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Post by yuhong » Mon, Aug 12, 2013, 8:12 PM UTC

Looks like the company was Tilcon.

Re: Truck driver has GPS jammer, accidentally jams Newark airport

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Post by wil421 » Mon, Aug 12, 2013, 8:37 PM UTC

And this is why GPS and cell phone jammers are illegal...

Re: Truck driver has GPS jammer, accidentally jams Newark airport

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Post by cnvogel » Tue, Aug 13, 2013, 6:38 AM UTC

I'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/

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.

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