GPS blackout

smeaks

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I went down to the Sunderland Air show on Sunday. My GPS stopped as I neared Roker and mobile phone stopped. All sprang back into life when I went North again and got past Souter. Were the signals blocked by HMS Albion for the display craft? Or is my chartplotter just a bit crap? Or has Sunderland disapeared off the map?
 

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I would never be surprised to find gps stops working when near a warship of any nationality. Eeeither they leave their jammers on (designed to confuse gps-guided missiles, presumably) or they just radiate so much noise that our simple receivers get confused.
 

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I would never be surprised to find gps stops working when near a warship of any nationality. Eeeither they leave their jammers on (designed to confuse gps-guided missiles, presumably) or they just radiate so much noise that our simple receivers get confused.

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If that is true how does the warship's own GPS manage to see the satelites? I'm not saying you are wrong but there does seem to be a contradiction in what you say.
 

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I expect that if I knew the answer to that, and told you, I'd then have to kill you. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif Most likely their jamming signal isn't white noise and, knowing what it is, it's a piece of urine to filter it out.
 

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Hello

I was also anchored at the Sunderland airshow my Gps (Raymarine) was fine did not not noticw any blackouts and the alarm did not go off to tell me "no gps"

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franky
 
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