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British Forum => General Discussion => Topic started by: PaulRuskin on September 11, 2018, 05:28:13 pm

Title: Drone jamming trials
Post by: PaulRuskin on September 11, 2018, 05:28:13 pm

Hi All

Just to let you know that there are plans for some military drone jamming trials in the UK Stanford Training Area (next to Lakenheath) this month.

They'll be jamming both GPS frequencies and 868 MHz - for up to 2 minutes at a time.  It will be NOTAM'd

I'd have thought that might be quite effective in interfering with GPS, Flarm, PAW and OGN-R.

Paul

Title: Re: Drone jamming trials
Post by: Admin on September 11, 2018, 05:39:08 pm

Hi Paul

Jamming GPS will stop everything, as GPS is used as a position source for all EC devices

Thx
Lee

Title: Re: Drone jamming trials
Post by: exfirepro on September 11, 2018, 05:41:03 pm

Hi Paul,

OK on the gps - they seem to do exercises with that quite often, but why would they want to jam 868? Seems a bit suspicious to me.

Regards

Peter

Title: Re: Drone jamming trials
Post by: Admin on September 11, 2018, 07:09:21 pm

Quote from: exfirepro on September 11, 2018, 05:41:03 pm

OK on the gps - they seem to do exercises with that quite often, but why would they want to jam 868? Seems a bit suspicious to me.

Well the drones all seem to operate on
433Mhz, 868Mhz and 2.4Ghz
433 & 868 typically used for telemetry, so I guess they are trying to see if they could disable them

Thx
Lee

Title: Re: Drone jamming trials
Post by: JCurtis on September 11, 2018, 08:51:36 pm

In a previous life much "fun" could be had with a very low power GPS jammer / "adjuster", but the demos I had were more in the West Country rather than the Eastern region... Ah the memories...

I wonder how many automatic gates etc. they can disable at the time too  ;D

Title: Re: Drone jamming trials
Post by: Seanhump on September 11, 2018, 10:20:22 pm

..and tyre pressure monitoring systems too .. they run on 433 ...