Re:Police find electronic signal-jamming device inside Calif...
by jdavis703 on Sunday August 29, 2021 @09:36AM
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What if you jam the railroad communication on accident? Do you know what frequencies the engineer, conductors and operations center is using?
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Re:Police find electronic signal-jamming device inside Calif...
by amelius on Sunday August 29, 2021 @11:01AM
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Well first of all, if their service critically depends on wireless communication, then that's bad design.
Further, I imagine you turn up the amount of power of the jammer until the person on the phone gets bad reception.
Re:Police find electronic signal-jamming device inside Calif...
by jdavis703 on Sunday August 29, 2021 @11:57AM
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I don’t know what you mean by critically. But everything from calling law enforcement for pedestrian and vehicle strikes to handling special operations (i.e. single tracking in a work zone) uses wireless communication.
There are also defect detection systems that rely on radio transmissions to indicate if a train is for example dragging equipment.