In message <20110309082926.d5f9f800...@ip-64-139-1-69.sjc.megapath.net>, Hal Mu rray writes:
>p...@phk.freebsd.dk said: >> The reason LORAN-C got killed was that DoD/DHS couldn't jam it if a >> terrorist with a suitcase-nuke was trying to find his way to Congress. > >Why can't they jam it? They can, All the need is 3 truck mounted generators, a truck with the electronics and then drape a superconducting loopantenna over a couple of skyskrapers... DHS was concerned this would not be "immediately available" in an emergency, whereas pretty much any army or air-force base can deliver GPS jamming on minuted notice. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
