You know how much we like GPS jammers here at Navigadget. Maybe it is because they’re illegal,or maybe they can give us a piece of mind that we’re not being followed. It looks like some thiefs are making use of this technology to plan their escape.
These days any truck belonging to a fleet is more than likely equipped with a GPS tracking system. Same thing goes for cars with LoJack or OnStar. In case of theft this technology can be used transmit the exact location of the vehile to a base station for fast recovery.
The Register is reporting that thieves have now learned that they can use an illegally imported GPS jammer to disable this function. A GPS jammer with 2 watts output can stop a GPS receiver from getting a satellite fix within a few meters radius where as a more powerful 20 watts jammer can mess up GPS signals for an area as big as an airport.
What can you do? Not much,especially if they’re using a GPS and GSM jammer combo which would stop any hopes of recovery using cell tower triangulation. Your best bet would be to follow their tracks from the ‘last known location’or keep listening for a signal hoping that they’ll for some reason fail to use the GPS jammer properly.
Oh,and don’t ask us where to get a GPS jammer from –really. We don’t know. You can leave a comment below though,maybe some other reader can help you.
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