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ahubert

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Hello there, thanks for your efforts! I really enjoy this happening!

Could you please comment on this:

https://twitter.com/erikkannike/status/1612729957851054080

How does he track the jamming?

How do the russian jam?

How could they ever jam up such a large swath?

Does that even have a discernible effect on modern GPS receivers in smart phones?

Surely it doesn’t effect military systems, they would anticipate jamming, right?

Never mind, I found https://gpsjam.org/ and the sources are airplanes apparently, or more accurately the API of ADSBExchange

There's a discussion about GPSJam, which is where he got that map, from a few months ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32245346

Sometimes the interference seen on those maps does affect phones, sometimes it doesn't.

Coincidentally there's a huge region of GPS (at least) interference this week over the New Mexico area, from a military test. My guess is that people on the ground won't be affected, unless maybe they're very close to White Sands Missile Range between 18:30 and 22:30 GMT. See https://twitter.com/lemonodor/status/1611812892969664515 for more info.

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