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   Deliberate GPS degradation, Galileo, and GPS jammi

   

   Richard Parker, Jun 14th, 2004 @ 1:16am

   
   

   Mike, with regard to the Galileo system and GPS jamming, I think you've gotten two things backward. First, Europe's interest in developing its own GPS system is, in part, due to the long-standing ability of the US government to command the GPS system to deliberately degrade the quality of the civilian portion of the US GPS signal, not due to the development of GPS jamming by the US. Second, US interest in GPS jamming is in response to Galileo, not the other way around. If Europe succeeds in deploying their own GPS system, then, in the absence of European cooperation, the US would have to deploy GPS jamming if it wishes to reliably deny accurate location information to its adversaries.

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   What kind of "jamming"?

   

   Anonymous Coward, Jun 14th, 2004 @ 8:58am

   
   

   The referenced article didn't mention what kind of "jamming" was being tested: internal or external. The military reportedly has the internal ability to disable GPS for non-military users in any area, in effect "jamming" that area. This would affect both GPS navigation devices and cell phones with GPS. Since the military is conducting exercises in the area, they may be simply testing this existing capability. This would be nothing new and would not indicate an ability to externally jam Galileo.
   But speaking of Galileo, didn't I read in the news that Europe had agreed to give the US military the ability to disable Galileo anyway?
   

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   Charles W., Jun 14th, 2004 @ 9:15am

   
   

   I have to agree with the above post. The US GPS system is controled by the military, and they can turn it off whenever they want. No need to jam it. (Better yet, have one or more of the satellites send out corupt signals so that unless your reciever is configured correctly it shows you being x miles from where you really are.)
   
   So if we are looking at how to jam GPS then most likley it is because we don't trust the people that have control of the other GPS systems to turn them off when we ask.
   
   -Charles W.

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   Re: What kind of

   

   gerry, Jun 14th, 2004 @ 12:10pm

   
   

   And who says jamming can only be done against one signal wave? All the military has to do is:
   
   General: "Hey, we need to block Galileo."
   Captain: "Yes sir! What's the frequency private Kenneth?"
   Private: "Sir, it's in the XYZ band, encoded in ABC".
   
   Captain: "Reconfigure jammers! Fire!"
   

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