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by DumpoLumbo 8 days ago
I wonder why they call this specific discovery “jamming”. What they found is a relatively rare burst transmissions over roughly 5MHz of spectrum of something looking like a 12ms cyclic prefix with spacing related to 150 seconds multiplies. I would suspect it is some sort of sync or data close to L1 GPS frequencies, that as a side effect causing lower CNR for the GPS receivers. Btw it is only 10dB, which also I can’t really call “jamming”.

Overall it seems to be an overfitting the observation to the wider intent of a malicious actor.

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> I wonder why they call this specific discovery “jamming”.

Because it jamms.

Well 10dB lower CNR for couple seconds doesn't pass my definition of jamm, but rather is a minor co-channel interference.