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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.
