alt Hacker NewsThat is inaccurate. You will NOT be able to jam a satellite outside local areas, the amount of power to do is monstrous and likely to cause cancer for anyone around.
In a real scenario these things work. Please don't fall into "what if's" which are exotic and confused as things bigger than what they are.
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elevation • 06/16/2025
> You will NOT be able to jam a satellite outside local areas
It is true that you will not be able to jam the _downlink_ frequency outside local areas.
But due to the FM capture effect, anyone else in the same hemisphere with a basic 100w transmitter (and appropriate antenna) on the _uplink_ frequency will be able to deny the satellite service to all the 5W Baofeng radios that preppers are stockpiling.
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Well, from the comments, here, this sounds like a passionate topic, for folks.
I've always been interested in helping folks that help folks.
I started looking at Meshtastic, some years ago, but found the ecosystem to be a bit overly-complex, as is often the case, with "Swiss Army Knife" approaches.