Avoid getting lost due to Radar jamming
Radar jamming, also known as Electronic Warfare, is becoming more common in the Black Sea and Eastern Mediterranean, causing wrong GPS navigation for boats. How can boats steer clear of this?
Radar jamming and deception are like electronic tricks that confuse radar by sending out noisy or false signals, making it hard for the radar to understand what's going on. When someone floods it with signals, it's called jamming. If someone sends confusing signals, it's deception. But most people just call it "jamming" for both tricks. This is also known as Electronic Warfare when done by countries, and it's more frequent during wars.
Currently, there's an increase in jamming in the Black Sea and Eastern Mediterranean.
GPS systems are at risk of disruptions due to accidental interference or intentional jamming, causing concerns about their reliability and security. To avoid this, you can use anti-jamming systems.
GPS Anti-Jamming protects receivers from interference and intentional jamming, reducing the vulnerability of weak GPS signals on Earth's surface. By minimizing power, it lessens the impact of interference, allowing GPS receivers to function properly.
If you prefer a less electronic approach on your boat, consider having a sextant. For a long time, sextants were the main tools for navigating at sea. But they are not easy to use as GPS so you have to learn.
Do you know how to use sextants? we would like to hear from youur experience, in comment section.
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