Re:Police find electronic signal-jamming device inside Calif...
by praptak on Sunday August 29, 2021 @03:48AM
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The military have ones which can be
dropped from air and are much more powerful.
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Re:Police find electronic signal-jamming device inside Calif...
by mikro2nd on Sunday August 29, 2021 @04:25AM
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How long do their batteries hold out? (I'm assuming batteries because "dropped from the air".) If they're "much" more powerful (than the quoted 3-4W) then I'd have some serious doubts that they're useful for much more than a short period of time. That said, I can think of operational scenarios where denying your enemy/target radio/GSM access for even an hour might be useful. Still interested to know the operating time, though...
Re:Police find electronic signal-jamming device inside Calif...
by praptak on Sunday August 29, 2021 @06:53AM
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I don't know the details and they are probably classified anyway. I know about the jammers from a person I worked with as a CS student. This was a project on improving frequency assignment algorithms in battlefield radio networks. We (the university) did the algorithms and they (military) did the reality checks on why a theoretically good assignment doesn't work in reality.