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Buyers Beware Ligado Spectrum – Forbes (Telecoms beware of the FCC also?)
Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: Another thought provoking set of insights by RNTF member Diana Furchtgott-Roth. We wonder if perhaps companies seeking spectrum from the FCC ought to "beware" also. As Diana points out, during the last administration the FCC...
GPS Spoofing: History and Prevention – Assoc. of Old Crows Video
Image: Skytruth Blog Editor's Note: Once a year RNTF President Dana A. Goward does a presentation on this topic for the world's largest electronic warfare organization - The Association of Old Crows. Advances in ways to deceive GPS receivers and otherwise falsify...
5G & Aviation, France vs U.S.
Image: FAA Blog Editor's Note: This issue is not in the center of our lane. It is a good example, though, of the need for careful leadership and spectrum management by the FCC. Something that we did not see in their decision on Ligado Networks. Interesting that the...
British Columbia Moves Against Jammers
Image: Chronos Blog Editor's Note: We were glad to get a link to the below article from member Chuck Schue. It is always good to see law enforcement authorities taking action against jamming devices. We have reported before about police in Scotland, and Hampshire...
‘Authentication Doesn’t Eliminate Spoofing Threat’ – EU Space Program
Blog Editor's Note: A recent post about Galileo's Open Service Navigation Message Authentication (OSNMA) by the EU Agency for the Space Programme provided an good overview of the service and how it works. It pointed out, though, that while OSNMA is a help in combating...
Right on time: Protecting critical infrastructure against threats – GPS World
Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: Interesting article building upon the idea of a national resilient timing architecture. We have published two white papers on this idea - "A Resilient National Timing Architecture" in 2020, and "A Resilient National...
Honda Clocks Are Stuck 20 Years In The Past And There Isn’t A Fix – Jalopnik
Image: RADM (ret) Dave Glenn's 20210 Honda CRV at 12:22 on 11 January 2022 Blog Editor's Note: Another surprise GPS week rollover issue, it seems! Just goes to show how careful we all need to be about the quality and maintenance of our devices. Thanks to RNTF member...
China Besting U.S. in Nav Warfare, Now Leading World – eLoran Latest Example
Image: Shutterstock Here is the first sentence in a Chinese research paper on eLoran we saw the other day: "The eLoran system is an international standardized positioning, navigation, and timing service system, which can complement global navigation satellite systems...
Parkinson Speaks to National Academies on FCC Ligado Order
Image: Dr. Brad Parkinson presenting to a National Academy of Sciences study group. The FY2021 National Defense Authorization Act required the Department of Defense to contract with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) to conduct “an...
Are we ready for the next big solar storm? – Astronomy
Images Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: Just a reminder there are more threats to GPS/GNSS satellites and signals than just the Chinese and Russians. Scientists are divided as to whether or not an especially large Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) would destroy GPS and...
NSC director: GPS ‘Still a Single Point of Failure’ – GPS World
Image: MS Caitlin Durkovich, Director for Resilience and Response, National Security Council Blog Editor's Note: The author of this article is President of the RNT Foundation. NSC director: GPS ‘Still a Single Point of Failure’ January 4, 2022 - By Dana Goward...
GNSS Jamming: An Omnipresent Threat – GW Prime
Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: An interesting overview article that also includes some tech details and several case studies. We especially like case studies as they are a good way to make what "might happen" real. We note that folks who jam and spoof...
“Sit tight and assess.”
Just sayin'... Happy New Year, yall! https://youtu.be/Op_v2PHDn-0
Threats to GPS – 2021 Year in Review, GPS World Special
Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: We subscribe to GPS World's "Navigate!" weekly newsletter." You should too. This week's newsletter was a 2021 Year in Review and led off with a section on "Threats to GPS." December 28, 2021 Threats to GPS With rising global tensions,...
Art Predicts Life – China Disables US Satellite on “Space Force”
Image: Netflix/Youtube The 1997 James Bond film "Tomorrow Never Dies" the evil-doer spoofs GPS and lures a British warship into violating Chinese territorial waters sparking an international incident in which the ship and a pair of Chinese fighter jets are lost. It...
“The impact of a long lasting, widespread GPS outage on mobile phone networks would likely be staggering…” – NIST
Image: Shutterstock Yet another government report detailing bad things that will happen because of our foolish over reliance on GPS for timing. We understand, by the way, that in the terms of this report a "long lasting" GPS outage would be "24 hours." Government and...
5G: Bringing precise positioning to the connected intelligent edge – Market Screener
Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: This item about Qualcomm is part of the recent buzz about the possibilities of using 5G for location services. Lots of potential there, we are sure. Yet our telecommunications system has a critical dependency on GPS-derived...
GPS Jammer on Amazon only $14.98! Great Stocking Stuffer!
One of our members spied this for sale. What a great, useful, and inexpensive gift for the holidays! And we are glad to see that it is "Made of environmentally friendly materials." We are not sure about the "will not cause harm to people" statement, though. Traffic...
Furuno navigation & communication equipment (incl GMDSS) – GPS week number rollover
Image: UK Merchant Marine Ensign - Shutterstock Blog Editor Note: We thought GPS week rollover problems were all done with... Passing this along as part of our public education and "protecting GPS/GNSS users" missions. Guidance Safety Bulletin 24 – Furuno...
Bei Dou & China’s Rise – GPS & America’s Decline?
Image: XinhuaNet Blog Editor's Note: The below article got us thinking again about how a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) is an instrument of national influence and power. In addition to being a very useful tool for a nation's civil and military use, it is a...
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Buyers Beware Ligado Spectrum – Forbes (Telecoms beware of the FCC also?)
Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: Another thought provoking set of insights by RNTF member Diana Furchtgott-Roth. We wonder if perhaps companies seeking spectrum from the FCC ought to "beware" also. As Diana points out, during the last administration the FCC...
GPS Spoofing: History and Prevention – Assoc. of Old Crows Video
Image: Skytruth Blog Editor's Note: Once a year RNTF President Dana A. Goward does a presentation on this topic for the world's largest electronic warfare organization - The Association of Old Crows. Advances in ways to deceive GPS receivers and otherwise falsify...
5G & Aviation, France vs U.S.
Image: FAA Blog Editor's Note: This issue is not in the center of our lane. It is a good example, though, of the need for careful leadership and spectrum management by the FCC. Something that we did not see in their decision on Ligado Networks. Interesting that the...
British Columbia Moves Against Jammers
Image: Chronos Blog Editor's Note: We were glad to get a link to the below article from member Chuck Schue. It is always good to see law enforcement authorities taking action against jamming devices. We have reported before about police in Scotland, and Hampshire...