Panama Canal 3 Week GPS Disruption Mystery - GPSJam.org

Panama Canal 3 Week GPS Disruption Mystery – GPSJam.org

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June 22, 2023

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What’s New: Recent tweet from John Wiseman about a disruption incident at the Panama Canal last August.

Why It’s Important: We could report nearly every day about GPS interference of some kind. Why go back to August and look at this one?

It lasted three weeks. Clearly a persistent problem, yet authorities did not have either the interest or ability to track it down and stop the interference sooner, if they did so at all.
It was at a major international maritime choke point. Yet the only reports were from aviation. Ship receivers were either not impacted or the impacts were not reported.
Despite the above, there wasn’t any press on this long lasting and interesting incident at the time.

Other Things to Know:

GPSJam.org is operated by a group of enthusiasts on a volunteer basis. Led by John Wiseman, they provide valuable public information and education available no where else. Thanks, John & team!
Looking in the Jeppesen data base, we could find no record of any Notices to Air Missions being published.

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