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Re:Planned GPS outages in southern California by dzhiurgis on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @09:01PM (#11859282)
Can you jam the only non-encrypted part of GPS?
Re:Planned GPS outages in southern California by jhayward on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @10:53AM (#11862615)
Kind of. The GPS signal portfolio is evolving. In the beginning, the encrypted code was broadcast on two frequencies, L1 and L2. The public code was only on L1. So you could in theory jam just L1 to block the un-encrypted portion, but why would you?

In recent years GPS modernization means satellites have been using new codes on L2 (L2C) which are un-encrypted. Only about 18 of the satellites carry that capability at this time.

Re:Planned GPS outages in southern California by dzhiurgis on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @08:40PM (#11866812)
How else are you going to land the drone safely? I think the idea is jam the encrypted data, spoof the unencrypted part to point to your location.
Re:Planned GPS outages in southern California by jhayward on Saturday June 11, 2016 @04:58PM (#11885289)
As far as I know military devices always use the anti-spoof (encrypted) military code, and never the commercial code.