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Making a Good Thing Better: Jammertest 2023 Jamming, Meaconing, Spoofing, and Synchronization on the Norwegian Coast

Abstract

Jammertest is the largest known GNSS jamming, meaconing, and spoofing test event in the world, which has an open policy towards both user participation and user communication with no restrictions on the sharing of data or publication of results. The organizers implemented several changes and enhancements within the 2023 test campaign to further broaden the appeal and applicability of the tests for as many demographics of GNSS users as possible. More than 200 participants from 19 nations took part in person from 18 to 22 September at the test sites along the west coast of the Andøy island. This paper summarizes the design and motivation of the tests and test venue with particular attention to the efforts taken to provide users with precision timing and frequency references independent of the denied and disrupted GNSS signals. Aspects of surveilling and enforcing unintentional emissions, and real-time communication and coordination to the large number of distributed participants are also discussed.

Category

Academic article

Client

  • Research Council of Norway (RCN) / 332528

Language

English

Author(s)

Affiliation

  • SINTEF Digital / Sustainable Communication Technologies
  • Unknown
  • Norwegian Metrology Service
  • Norwegian Defence Research Establishment

Year

2025

Published in

Engineering Proceedings

ISSN

2673-4591

Publisher

MDPI

Volume

88

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