John Civillian GPS is extremely susceptible to jamming and interference. Which is why the LORAN shutdown puts the entire transportation infrastructure at risk.
Your jammer is probably derived from the one described in Phrack magazine where the theory was extensively discussed. But in the real world there have been multiple instances of GPS jamming from malfunctioning hardware. A couple of cases in Monterey Bay which rendered several square miles of the bay area unusable for GPS for weeks were traced to malfunctioning TV antenna amplifiers from Radio Shack. Scott Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -----Original Message----- From: John Green <wpxs...@gmail.com> Sender: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 11:43:12 To: <time-nuts@febo.com> Reply-To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement <time-nuts@febo.com> Subject: [time-nuts] GPS jamming susceptibility Given that this is an extremely sensitive topic and completely illegal also, let me just state at the outset that I have no interest in jamming anyone's GPS. A while back, I was looking at one of those Chinese discount electronics websites, I'm sure we all have, and noticed a GPS jammer for sale. I had been wanting to do some jamming susceptibility testing for quite some time but had never got around to building a generator to test with. The thing was cheap so I ordered it. After it arrived, I opened it up, first thing, to see how it was made. It has a dual 555 oscillator, a couple of analog switches, a 1.9 GHz VCO, a single amplifier. It doesn't look capable of putting out more than 50 milliwatts or so into a 2 inch antenna. I was somewhat dubious that it would do anything, so I took it to the bench where the Z3801 lives and turned it on. Within 2 seconds, the holdover LED lit. I immediately turned it off and within a few more seconds, the holdover LED was back off. The GPS antenna is perhaps 35 feet away with a cinder block wall, a brick wall, and a metal roof in between. I also put a 15 Db attenuator between it and the antenna with almost the same result. I am going to do more testing with it wired into the GPS downfeed an an adjustable attenuator in line just to see how much signal it takes. That way, there will be little danger of messing with anyone's reception. It is just a simple sweeper so it must do its job by brute force. I am amazed that it took so little to shut my Z3801 down. Has anyone here had any actual experience testing GPS receivers for susceptibility? _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.