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homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

Good article. Very interesting.

TL;DR: Starlink recievers use methods to make it so they don’t have to be directly positioned at satellites; this in turn leaves them vulnerable to “side lobe jamming” and GPS spoofing. The suggestion is to point them directly and cover them i.e. in a pit or in a cavity of some such so that the jamming / spoofing doesn’t reach it.

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NOT_RICK@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Thanks for actually discussing the article instead of feeding the trolls

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partofthevoice@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
It sounds like the downside here would be that you loose reliability in your connection. Probably fine for most things.

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- NOT_RICK@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Seems like they’ve already lost the reliability anyway due to the jamming
  
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- zaphod@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Yeah, you lose reliability. If you put the antenna in a pit it will be limited in its beamforming capability. This restricts the number of visible satellites, leading to situations where no satellites are visible.
  
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