How to Jam a Worldwide Satellite TV Broadcast

Posted by timothy on Saturday July 12, 2003 @03:27AM from the next-on-the-diy-network dept.

An anonymous reader submits: "According to an MSNBC article, 'it's simply a matter of aiming a strong signal at the uplink transponder on the satellite and overwhelming the...broadcaster's signals...You need a dish, some power, not too much. You put up a test pattern ... and do a sweep and find the transponder on the satellite you want to jam. It could even be smaller than the standard 6-meter dish. It could be a small dish with a lot of power.' This was apparently how an Iranian satellite television station was knocked off of Loral Skynet's TelStar-12 a few days ago. Loral contacted TLS, a company which specializes in satellite broadcast security, who quickly located the source of the jamming to Cuba."

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Jammed? by I+Like+Swords!!! · 2003-07-12 03:37 · Score: 1, Redundant

"I've lost the sweeps. I've lost the bleeps. And I've lost the creeps."

"...That's not the only thing he's lost."

"Look, sir! It appears that we're being jammed."

"Raspberry... There's only one man who would DARE give me the raspberry..."

... errr, yeah. Jamming satellites, that's the topic. Sorry, still waking up.

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