How to Jam a Worldwide Satellite TV Broadcast

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."

Comments

Re:Hah! That's nothing.

[Anonymous Coward]

And you wonder why you fucking morons have a bad reputation? Isn't there a toilet somewhere you could be scrubbing out right now?

Diplomacy at work. Well done there.

[cliveholloway]

Your post succinctly sums up exactly the attitude that provokes the rest of the world into frustration against Americans:

1. you dismiss a activities alien to you
2. you dismiss countries alien to you

What would you have done if it was NFL playoffs or World Series baseball live?

Just because something isn't important to you, it doesn't mean it isn't important to others.

I guess you have no problem with crivket fans thinking you're a dick - after all, none of them are American, so why should you care?

*sigh*

cLive ;-)