{"id":780,"date":"2002-07-04T17:46:13","date_gmt":"2002-07-05T00:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/07\/uwb-knocks-out-ils\/"},"modified":"2002-07-04T17:46:13","modified_gmt":"2002-07-05T00:46:13","slug":"uwb-knocks-out-ils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/07\/04\/uwb-knocks-out-ils\/","title":{"rendered":"UWB Knocks out ILS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#8212; Reader Terry points to this article in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationnow.com\/content\/publication\/awst\/20020617\/aw42.htm\">Aviation Week<\/a> on preliminary findings that UWB interferes with airplane Instrument Landing Systems:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ultrawideband transmitters temporarily &#8220;knocked out&#8221; the instrument landing system and traffic-alert collision avoidance systems during some very preliminary tests by NASA Langley. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The test was conducted with UWB transmitters inside the aircraft, where low signal levels are still sufficient to interfere. The Economist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bennett.com\/archives\/000903.html#000903\">article below<\/a> says this isn&#8217;t supposed to happen, but it does. UWB would be an ideal terrorist weapon in its current configuration, so it&#8217;s a no-go, except where locked-down.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; Reader Terry points to this article in Aviation Week on preliminary findings that UWB interferes with airplane Instrument Landing Systems: Ultrawideband transmitters temporarily &#8220;knocked out&#8221; the instrument landing system and traffic-alert collision avoidance systems during some very preliminary tests by NASA Langley. The test was conducted with UWB transmitters inside the aircraft, where low &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/07\/04\/uwb-knocks-out-ils\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;UWB Knocks out ILS&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-cA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}