Image: National Assn of Broadcasters Blog Editor's Note: The interviewer for the below article is President of the RNT Foundation.     Finding your way with broadcast TV October 3, 2022  - By Dana Goward Est. reading time: 3:30 Full-power UHF TV stations in...

Image: US Air Force F-22 Staff Sgt. James Richardson We were interested to see this news release publish recently. Glad to see Air Force looking to include other GNSS (presumably Galileo). It wasn't that long ago the Congress was holding money back from the Secretary...

Image: Shutterstock - Aircraft were include in Norway's tests. Blog Editor's Note: We were VERY pleased to see the Norwegian Telecommunications Authority posting some of its results from last week's test already! Not all government agencies are so responsive and...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: Northern Norway may be the most frequently jammed place on the planet. It is certainly the most jammed outside the middle east. No wonder, then, that Norway's National Telecommunications Authority, Nkom, hosted "the world's...

Image: Prof. David Last Blog Editor's Note: David was a pillar of the PNT community, founding member of the RNT Foundation, long-time advisor, and a great friend. His passing in 2019 left a permanent gap in the international community.  We helped the Royal Institute...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: We were glad to finally get a bit of clarity on this incident yesterday morning at CGSIC. A few additional thoughts: Why did it take 33.5 hours to locate, identify, and terminate what was clearly a high power transmitter? The...

Image: US Fish and Wildlife Service Blog Editor's Note: The author is President of the RNT Foundation. Opinion: FCC must protect the environment and assign Ligado different frequencies September 19, 2022  - By Dana A Goward “Precautionary principle: The principle that...

Image:  (Screenshot: DOT) Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg made a surprise appearance at the DOT roundtable on complementary PNT. Blog Editor's Note: The author is President of the RNT Foundation.   Industry decries lack of leadership on GPS backup, China,...

Image: Federal Communications Commission Blog Editor's Note: We are at an interesting place in this very long saga. One that has been going on for nearly 20 years.  It is a complex and intricate tale. It is a story of conflict. One with virtue and no real villains on...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: Interesting development. Read carefully. They are not giving up their claim on the frequencies. They are just not deploying equipment.      Ligado Scraps 5G Network Launch Amid Interference Flap Announcement comes days...

Image: Shutterstock The Maritime Administration issued one of its periodic advisories the other day about GPS and AIS jamming and spoofing.  It included a note, as usual, about repeated reports from the eastern and central Mediterranean Sea, Persian Gulf, and the Red...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: We have been off the grid for several days, so we are only posting this now. The National Academies said a lot more than what is in this headline, of course. Read the whole article  at the link below.  Importantly, the report...

Image: National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Blog Editor's Note: The author of the below piece is President of the RNT Foundation.     National Academies to reveal FCC-Ligado study results Friday September 6, 2022  - By Dana A. Goward The...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: We like that folks are talking about PNT as a cyber issue. One that should very much be considered in "zero trust" considerations.  While this might not be universally accepted yet by those in the cyber world, it is certainly...

Ship locations from around the world have been spoofed to show them circling off of Pt. Reyes, California. Image courtesy of Skytruth Blog Editor's Note: We are seeing more of these kinds of articles in major outlet as the world "discovers" the problem again and...

Image: Red Rock Park near Denver - Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: Open to the public and free to attend. Your chance to talk to the government! 62nd Meeting of the Civil GPS Service Interface Committee At the Institute of Navigation GNSS+ 2022 Conference Hyatt...

Blog Editor's Note - A couple of items from Space.com that should be of interest to everyone who thinks about space. Should also of interest to anyone who relies upon space-based services. Which would be... just about everyone. The first item is about recent solar...

Image: Shutterstock Most of our readers are familiar with the Association of Old Crows. It is the world's largest organization of folks interested in Electronic Warfare (EW), Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations (EMSO), Cyber Electromagnetic Activities (CEMA),...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: A good general info article from a UK defense (or defence) perspective. The interviewee, NextNav CEO Ganesh Pattabiraman, does a pretty good job of addressing the policy issues without making the piece an all out advertisement...

We were privileged to be able to attend a memorial service yesterday for our late friend and colleague Langhorne Bond. Long-time RNTF members will remember Langhorne as an early supporter of our efforts and host of our first couple annual meeting/dinners at the...