• whatiswrongwithyou@lemmy.ml
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    4 days ago

    Oh no, not something to push people to adopt new block 3 capable receivers!

    Surely they won’t just use $20 glonass or beidou receivers…

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      3 days ago

      They’re all susceptible to the same attack. It’s “just” jamming.

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        3 days ago

        For some reason I thought block 3 gps has some kind of rotating side channel bit selection method to resist jamming “perform more consistently in poor electromagnetic conditions” or some such…

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          3 days ago

          would work if it’s regular EM interference but when a satellite broadcasts across an entire spectrum of frequencies there’s little more you can do to adapt.

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              2 days ago

              EM interference is going to hit lots of places across the spectrum and turn it into swiss cheese.

              a satellite actively vomiting EM interference within a radio band takes away the cheese and tells you to fuck off.

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                2 days ago

                I mean in a more technical sense. In what way is “traditional” terrestrial frequency jamming with wide band noise different when the source is extraterrestrial instead?

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                    2 days ago

                    I have enough limited experience receiving and transmitting rf signals between terrestrial stations and between terrestrial and extraterrestrial stations that I’m very interested in how rf interference and therefore its mitigation is different when the interference source is extraterrestrial.