How do signals get jammed?

14 May 2026 · 49 min · 26 chapters

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In short

How signal jamming works and why it’s different from destructive interference/noise-canceling; includes physics of electromagnetic signals, how noise and frequency overlap block reception, and real-world jamming history and legality.

Guests

Kelly Wienersmith (studies parasites and space; background includes playing clarinet in marching band and saxophone in jazz band) and Daniel (particle physicist; played electric guitar in grunge rock bands; “big fan of jam”).

Key claims

Jamming usually works by flooding the receiver with noise at the same frequency (not by perfectly canceling the target waveform). Effective jamming is typically localized and depends on power and proximity. Destructive interference requires knowing the exact signal and is highly localized, so it can’t broadly jam an area. Digital communications can be jammed more subtly by confusing handshakes/modulation, sometimes resembling hacking.

Notable examples

Soviet-era jammers using diesel-engine noise; Nazis trying to jam the BBC; Finland countering radio-activated mines by broadcasting polka continuously; 2013 New Jersey GPS jammer disrupting Newark Airport; Cold War/Voice of America vs BBC/USSR; satellite communications interference and UN warnings; General John Hyten citing 261 satellite-jamming cases in 2015 attributed to “self-jamming.”

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Understanding Signal Jamming

0:36 to 0:57

Explore the concept of signal jamming in science fiction.

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Understanding Signal Jamming

2:13 to 3:40

Explore the concept of signal jamming in science fiction.

“A common trope in science fiction is the strategic move of signal jamming.”

Personal Frustrations with Equipment

3:41 to 5:50

Daniel and Kelly discuss their most frustrating equipment experiences.

“And you were recently invited by a listener to be on their hip hop track.”

Exploring Signal Jamming Mechanics

5:51 to 7:50

Kelly and Daniel introduce the mechanics behind signal jamming.

“when we were putting the boat, you know, like down the ramp and into the delta, that was amazing.”

Audience Questions on Signal Jamming

7:51 to 9:20

Discuss audience responses regarding how signal jammers work.

“And a bunch of people wrote in and said, hey, can you explain what is signal jamming?”

Physics of Signal Transmission

9:21 to 14:00

Delve into the physics behind how signals are sent and received.

“I love the idea of superior particles, that you can zap one kind of particle, another kind of particle, and it'll be dominated.”

Understanding Signal Transmission

14:00 to 17:23

Learn how signals are transmitted through antennas and the role of frequencies.

“And as you say, it's really cool that you can use those wiggles to represent almost any kind of information, right?”

The Greenhouse Effect and Frequencies

17:23 to 18:32

Discover how the greenhouse effect relates to frequency transparency in signals.

“And so that's why the light can pass in but not out, because the greenhouse gases are transparent to the light coming in and opaque to the light coming out.”

The Role of Metals in Signal Interference

18:32 to 18:51

Understand how metals can block signals and the concept of Faraday cages.

“I'm not saying the CA is trying to control you, but if they were, a tinfoil hat really would protect you.”

Exploring Signal Noise and Jamming

18:51 to 22:01

Learn about noise in signal transmission and the basics of signal jamming.

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Destructive Interference Explained

22:01 to 26:26

Explore the concept of destructive interference and its application in signal jamming.

“So we were talking about how the frequency of waves can determine what things might get in the way of the signal.”

Challenges in Jamming Signals

26:26 to 28:00

Discuss the complexities involved in effectively jamming a signal.

“Or is it like there's constant waves being created as the message gets sent out across, you know, the sky?”

Destructive Interference and Its Limitations

28:00 to 29:28

Discover how destructive interference works and why it's impractical for large-scale signal jamming.

“But it only works when those two waves overlap very locally, right?”

The Crude Method of Signal Jamming

29:28 to 31:03

Learn about the basic mechanics of signal jamming and the humorous history behind early jamming techniques.

“So like a diesel engine generating the electricity you needed to generate the signal.”

Understanding the Concept of Jamming

31:03 to 33:04

Explore the etymology of the term 'jamming' and its various interpretations in communication.

“Do you love haggis and bagpipes, Daniel?”

The Efficacy and Legality of Jammers

33:04 to 35:02

Find out how jammers work and the legal implications of their use in modern society.

“to remove is like variable noise unpredictable noise so if you want to be hard to remove you got to generate unpredictable noise.”

Evolving Jamming Techniques

35:02 to 36:45

Learn about the advancements in jamming technology and how they affect digital communications.

“I was going to ask why more people haven't messed with their exes using these things, but okay, totally illegal.”

Vulnerabilities in Modern Communication

36:45 to 38:18

Understand how Bluetooth and Wi-Fi can be jammed and the implications for technology users.

“You're just confusing the receiver so it can't actually hear the real message.”

The Art of Jamming: Historical Context

42:00 to 43:20

Learn how jamming has been used historically, including unique tactics like playing polka music to thwart enemy mines.

“I guess as someone who's more of a fish person than a bird person, I was thinking of the submarines.”

Jamming in the Cold War

43:20 to 46:04

Discover the impact of jamming during the Cold War, including the techniques used against broadcasts from the West.

“So after World War II came the Cold War.”

Modern Jamming and Its Consequences

46:04 to 47:55

Explore a contemporary case of GPS jamming that caused chaos at Newark Airport and the legal implications of jamming.

“You could also interfere with communications into space, right?”

Satellite Communications and Jamming

47:55 to 50:28

Understand how jamming affects satellite communications and the challenges associated with it in military contexts.

“Indonesia, Cuba, Ethiopia, Libya, Syria, all these places have, for military reasons, and so does the US, of course, technology to interfere with satellites.”

The Complexities of Jamming Detection

50:28 to 53:16

Learn about the difficulties in identifying the source of jamming and the self-jamming incidents reported by military.

“So they decided they were going to jam this whole provider of mobile satellite communications.”

Defending Against Jamming

53:16 to 54:18

Discover various strategies to defend against jamming, including frequency hopping and increased signal power.

“She's a Hollywood actress and a radio frequency genius.”

Discussing the Nissan Rogue

56:58 to 57:26

The hosts share their thoughts on the features and performance of the Nissan Rogue.

Podcast Closing Remarks

58:04 to 58:26

The hosts wrap up the episode, concluding their discussions.

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2:13A common trope in science fiction is the strategic move of signal jamming. Interfering with your enemy's ability to communicate. My personal favorite example of this is not from Star Wars or from Star Trek, but Spaceballs. When their communications fail, they realize they've been jammed because literal raspberry jam drips across the screen. But is that really how jamming technology works? Or is it more like noise-canceling headphones or something else? Today, we'll dig into the physics of signal jamming, including the bleeps, the sweeps, and the creeps. Welcome to Daniel and Kelly's Extraordinary Universe.

3:08Hello, I'm Kelly Wienersmith. I study parasites and space. Hi, I'm Daniel. I'm a particle physicist and I'm a big fan of jam. Oh, but not the kind that we're talking about today. Were you in a band or anything in high school? Oh, I played the clarinet in a marching band, and you could totally not hear anything. And I played the saxophone in a jazz band. Wow. So not a very cool kind of band, but yeah, I've been in bands. How about you? You were goth as a teenager, so you were either listening to or performing music, I'm guessing. Yeah, I played the electric guitar in some grunge rock bands. Oh, man.

3:43It was pretty awesome. And you were recently invited by a listener to be on their hip hop track. Yeah, we'll see where that goes. They said I needed singing experience. So I'm guessing that's going to disqualify me because singing in the car probably doesn't count. I don't know. That's experience. Showers and cars. I guess. We'll see. All right. So my question for you today is we're talking about like, you know, equipment and when it doesn't work, whether it's, you know, because someone's being malicious or not, that's really frustrating. Yes. So what piece of equipment in your life has been the most frustrating to you?

4:18Oh, wow. I think the thing I'm most often frustrated by are the things I use most, like a phone or a computer. But in reality, these things are amazing. Yeah. Like I use my computer for hours every single day. It's always there. It's almost always works exactly as I expect it to. So my frustration there is really unfair. I think the frustration that's most fairly targeted is to the dishwasher. Because like, it's got a simple job. It does one thing. And it just doesn't work a lot of the times, you know? Like, why can't we just invent a dishwasher where you put the dishes in and they get washed?

4:51It does a lot of things, though. It senses how dirty the dishes are. It washes them. It dries them also. That's another thing it does. It does at least two things. Wow. Look at you standing up for dishwashers. I mean, they are kind of incredible. They save you a lot of time. When they become AI empowered and take over the world, they're going to listen to this podcast and they're going to know you're one of them. I'm hedging my bets, man.

5:15Well, as a person who's done a lot of home improvement projects, Kelly, which piece of equipment in your life have you been most frustrated by? Oh, you know, I think I love all of my power tools equally. I think the thing – so I had a piece of equipment I worked with that gave me really big highs and really big lows. And that was the electrofishing boat that I used in grad school. So I was doing a largemouth bass survey in the Sacramento San Joaquin Delta, and we were trying to catch largemouth bass. And I loved driving this boat. It was so much fun. I loved operating the boat. And when nobody was around at like 4 a.m.

5:52when we were putting the boat, you know, like down the ramp and into the delta, that was amazing. But at busy times of day, when I had to like use our giant truck and back the boat down the ramp, that was the most frustrating because inevitably some incredibly well-meaning guy would see oh a woman is trying to back the boat down the ramp and they never were helping the guys it was only when I was trying again they were trying to be very nice right and I appreciated their help but it wasn't really helping because I did a great job on my own but when they were trying to tell me I would get really flustered because you know you turn the you know the wheel in one direction the The boat goes in the opposite direction.

6:36And when somebody is trying to tell you, like, go that way, it gets more confusing. I was doing fine on my own. But whenever somebody would try to help me, that's when I would mess it up. I just wanted to, like, leave my window rolled up and be like, nope, I'm not listening to you. But then that would have been rude. And so anyway, that was my most frustrating equipment experience was trying to get the boat down the ramp when people were around. And again, I wasn't mad at them. They were trying to help. That was nice. And you're not even mad at the equipment, right? No, I'm not even mad at the equipment.

7:04And it was just like, it was just a very frustrating experience. Every time I'd pull up to the boat ramp, I'd get like anxious if there was anybody else there. But that's why I really liked being on the crew that would start at like 4 a.m. Because usually there was no one else there. And I could just whoop in one like fell swoop, get it down. And then we'd be in the water and we'd go out and we'd collect our fish. Well, we aren't all out on the water at 4 a.m. to collect fish. But almost everybody lives a life that's dominated by machines, electronic devices that enable your life and make it easier or more complicated or just more fun.

7:38And sometimes they don't work just because they're busted or it's user error. But sometimes it's malicious. That's right. Somebody out there is interfering with your use of your devices. And today we're going to talk about one of those modes of interference, signal jamming, which appears all over the place in popular media and science fiction. And a bunch of people wrote in and said, hey, can you explain what is signal jamming? And I'm glad that they did because I love hearing stuff like this explained by Daniel. You'll get the clearest explanation when Daniel's the one explaining it. But let's go ahead and ask our extraordinaries, you know, the ones who didn't write in to ask for a better explanation.

8:16How does a signal jammer work? And here's what they had to say. You have a wave that's getting canceled out by another wave. They probably emit electromagnetic waves at just the right frequency to be perfectly deconstructive to other waves. By inserting destructive interference, essentially the inverse waves of any intended communication, thus making it be unintelligible. Kind of how noise-canceling headphones insert anti-noise to negate out any undesirable outside noise. I have no idea how a signal jammer works. My best guess would be that it uses photons in some way, scrambling the radio waves.

9:02I don't know. Some sort of particle wave disrupting the others, but it needs to be a superior part of it. Can you hit a particle wave with another particle wave? by sending a bunch of random data of the same signal type that screws up the receiver so it doesn't know what data is real and what's fake. All right. I love the idea of superior particles, that you can zap one kind of particle, another kind of particle, and it'll be dominated. Nice. Yes. That is pretty epic. The way you say nice reminds me that this weekend I was hanging out with a two-year-old and she's in this phase of just picking up words.

9:39and something happened. She like dropped a marble right under her mom's eye. And I said, nice. And then every time she did something mischievous the whole evening, she went, nice.

9:53And I laughed my head off. Anyway, these are very nice responses. And the theme that emerges for me is that a lot of people think it's destructive interference. They think it's this fancy wave cancellation stuff like the thing happening with your noise cancellation headphones. So I think it's great that we're going to dig into the actual mechanics of how signal jamming works because, hint, hint, it's not destructive interference. What? All right. So how are messages actually sent? Yeah. So to understand how signals are jammed, we have to understand the physics of signals. And for this conversation, we're going to ignore quantum mechanics because you mostly can.

10:31And as a reminder, you know, anytime we do physics, we're always using a simplified description of the universe. We can't bring all of our knowledge to bear all at once because number one, we don't need to. And number two, then we'd get nothing done ever because we'd be solving Einstein's equations in impossible ways. So we're always just like choosing what aspects of physics to use and neglecting some little bits. And for this conversation, we can treat this like classical electromagnetism. So we have electric fields and magnetic fields and oscillations within them. And we can ignore like quantum pulses and fuzziness and all that kind of stuff.

11:04Okay. Okay. Well, you know, and we only have an hour. So are we - Exactly. And when we talk about messages, are we talking about like radio messages, cell phone messages? Yes. Or are those all kind of the same thing? Those are all kind of the same thing. Everything here is a signal that's transmitted wirelessly, which means it's a pulse in the electromagnetic field, right? And so we're going to talk about messages encoded as pulses in the electromagnetic field, which basically means you're sending light, invisible light or visible light of various frequencies. And so when you listen to your radio, for example, you're getting radio waves.

11:42Radio waves are oscillations in the electromagnetic field that are picked up by your radio. When you listen to your cell phone, you're getting cellular information. That's oscillations of the electromagnetic field just at a different frequency. When you used to watch TV with antennas, you were picking up signals over the air, which are just oscillations in the electromagnetic field. When you tap your credit card on something to pay for it, there's a little bit of electromagnetic information being passed back and forth. So all of these things are electromagnetic, right? So all these messages are electromagnetic.

12:14They're just oscillations in the electromagnetic field. And the way that you send them is an antenna, right? So let's think about what is the physics of an antenna. It's like a long cylinder of metal. It's got a bunch of electrons in there, right? And you apply some current to the electrons to move one way and the electrons to move the other way. Now, electrons have an electric charge, right? And so they make an electric field. So if a antenna is just sitting there, it has an electric field. And if you pull on the electrons to move them, the electric field changes because you're moving the electrons.

12:46The electric field moves with the electrons, right? That makes sense? So if you have one electron, for example, and you wiggle it, what happens? Well, instead of having the same electric field through time, now the electric field is changing. I move the electron, electric field moves with it, right? All cool. But if I move my electron here in California, can Kelly tell immediately that I've moved my electron? No. She can only tell when the new electric field gets to her. So there's a time delay. If I wiggle my electron up and down, then I create a wiggling electric field through time that eventually gets to Kelly and she can pick it up with her electric field measuring device.

13:27Does that make sense? That does. Okay. It's kind of amazing that wiggling electric fields can give you like music and complicated. I know. It's crazy. Yeah. And so all of this information is just encoded in wiggling electric fields, which create magnetic fields. And that's what light is, right? Light is a coupled oscillation between electric fields and magnetic fields. They're very tightly linked. And changing electric fields make magnetic fields. Changing magnetic fields make electric fields. So it's this incredible physical phenomena that you can send information through the universe in these fields.

14:02And as you say, it's really cool that you can use those wiggles to represent almost any kind of information, right? You can encode my voice. You can send data. You can send anything, essentially, if you just come up with some way to encode it. You say, this kind of wiggle means that, this other kind of wiggle means something else, and you can use that to transmit information. And so the basic physical setup is you have an antenna where you are controlling the electrons, which means you control the wiggles. And somebody else, the receiver, Kelly, has an antenna. And when the electric field arrives at Kelly, how does she know that it's changed?

14:37Well, her antenna's electrons get wiggled by the electric field. For the same reason that wiggling my electrons makes a wiggling electric field, that wiggling electric field, when it arrives at Kelly's antenna, it wiggles her electrons. Then she has electronics that pick up those wiggles as current, and that's her signal. So effectively, I send a signal in my electronics to a signal in Kelly's electronics. That's how message transmission works. Okay, and this works because, like, so these messages need to pass through, like, buildings and forests and stuff like that. And does some of it get lost as it passes through that?

15:16Or no, because electrons and their fields just go through stuff? Or do, yeah. Yeah, great question. The answer is yes and no. It depends on the frequency. So, for example, if you're doing radio, then your frequencies are like kilohertz or megahertz, right? When you're listening to like rock 107.9, 107.9 means 107.9 megahertz is the frequency of that signal. When you're using Wi-Fi, then it's like 2.4 or 5 gigahertz, right? Those are hertz. Those are frequencies. It tells you how many times the signal oscillates per second. 5 gigahertz is 5 billion oscillations per second. Cell phones use like 600 megahertz to like 50 gigahertz.

15:59So each one has a different frequency range and different frequencies behave differently. Just the same with like different frequencies of light are either visible or invisible and different stuff is transparent or opaque. Like x-rays pass right through your soft muscle tissue, but they don't pass through bone and visible light doesn't pass through soft muscle tissue, right? So different things are transparent to different frequencies. In general, shorter frequency stuff like cell phones and Wi-Fi has shorter ranges than longer frequency stuff like radio. There's less atmospheric absorption. The atmosphere is more transparent to radio than it is to Wi-Fi and cell towers, so it doesn't fizzle out as much.

16:41And radio is less sensitive to small obstacles. Radio can also bounce off the atmosphere sometimes, depending on the frequency. And so it's easier to like pick up radio from miles and miles away or, you know, like ham radio operators can talk to people from around the world using those frequencies, whereas you can never do that with like cell phone towers. But cell phone towers are designed to only cover like the region that you're in. You don't want to hear from other cell phone towers. Okay. I feel like I remember when we had a conversation about space-based solar, we were talking about frequencies, like what frequency would you pick so that you could get your message down to Earth so it wasn't getting caught in the clouds and stuff like that.

17:22And this is a similar idea, right? Exactly. And the greenhouse effect is in effect just for this reason, that light passes mostly through the atmosphere, but then the earth absorbs it, changes the frequency, glows at a lower frequency to which greenhouse gases are opaque. And so that's why the light can pass in but not out, because the greenhouse gases are transparent to the light coming in and opaque to the light coming out. So the same gases are opaque or transparent at different frequencies. Another major issue for interfering is metals, right? Any kind of conductor, just like your antenna is going to receive the message, it's going to wiggle the electrons in your antenna.

18:00If you're inside a metal cage with your antenna, you're not going to get the signal because the metal cage is going to wiggle its electrons and it wiggles its electrons in exactly the way to counter that field. That's what an antenna does. So the metal cage basically eats the signal. And that's why in an elevator or anything we call a Faraday cage, just a metal box, you basically can't get electromagnetic signals or send them. This is why people put tinfoil hats on their head. There's like actual physical basis for this. That's great. Okay. Wow. I never knew they were so smart. I'm not saying the CA is trying to control you, but if they were, a tinfoil hat really would protect you.

18:41Wow. Okay, great. Maybe I'm going to start lining my winter hats with tinfoil just in case. Amazing. All right. We're going to take a break. So run to your kitchens, grab some tinfoil, and we'll be right back.

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21:58And we're back to Daniel and Kelly's Extraordinary Universe. So we were talking about how the frequency of waves can determine what things might get in the way of the signal. Are there other things that can get in the way or generate noise or basically mess up the signal in some way? Yeah, noise is a big issue because your intent is not the only thing broadcasting. The universe is variously loud at various frequencies because there's other stuff generating electromagnetic radiation. And so you want to pick a channel where the universe tends to be quieter. Like one of the reasons that astronomers look for messages from aliens at one particular frequency, they call it the watering hole, is because that's the one where the universe is pretty quiet.

22:41And so if you were going to broadcast, that's a good place to do it. And so your goal if you want to send a message from California to Virginia is to either find a quiet band where nobody else is broadcasting or to be louder than the noise so the antenna can pick it up above the noise. That's crucial. Nice.

23:05I can always count on you for two-year-old humor. Thank you. Yeah, that's right. That's the level I've risen to. Nice. Nice. Seeing a two-year-old say that. Oh, boy. Anyway, so the idea of a signal jammer is actually quite simple. It's make a bunch of noise. Make so much noise that the person who's trying to receive the signal can't hear it over the noise. It's like if your sibling is trying to spoil the end of a movie and you go, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la. So you can't hear them. You are jamming their signal. You can't hear their signal over the noise that you are making. In this case, probably trying to prevent somebody else from getting a signal.

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23:41So you just make a bunch of noise at the same frequency where they're trying to hear it. And maybe you're closer to the receiver than the original sender is. So you can create a bunch of loud noise to make it hard for them to hear. Okay. So you need to make sure that it's the same wavelength so that it's not interfering. It's just overlapping and making noise. Exactly. And let's pull those two things apart because a lot of the listeners suggested that signal jamming could use destructive interference. So let's dig into that for a minute and remind ourselves, what is destructive interference? Well, we're thinking about electromagnetic signals as waves.

24:17Waves are complicated and they can interfere, right? You have the double slit experiment. You have all sorts of weird optical effects. You have like in your living room when you're listening to the TV, there's like spots where it's louder and quieter at the same distance from the TV. What is going on? Remember that waves can add and they can subtract. So waves go up and down, right? If you slap on the surface of your bathtub, you make waves that are up and down in the surface of the water. If you slap with the other hand, then those waves overlap with each other. And if one wave is going down the same time the other wave is going up, then they cancel out.

24:50Up plus down equals nothing. So this is destructive interference. It's not like you have two waves that are in the same place at the same time and you can detect both of them. They literally add up to zero, and so they cancel each other out. That's destructive interference. I miss being a kid. I can't remember the last time I took a bath. That was like a thing I did when I was eight. But it sounds like fun to smack on the surface of a bath and play with the waves. It is fun. You're doing physics experiments. That's right. But this is hard to do. In order for this to happen, you have to have two waves that are exactly the same height and the same frequency and out of phase by 180 degrees.

25:28Which means that like one of them is shifted so that it's going down when the other one is going up. Otherwise, they'll constructively interfere. Two waves that are both going up at the same time will add up to a double wave. And so this is hard to arrange. And it's amazing that your noise-canceling headphones can do this. What they do is they have a little microphone inside them, so they detect the sound that's about to hit your ear, and then they generate exactly the waves needed to cancel out that sound. So the two play on top of each other and literally cancel out. Okay, so I have a question.

26:01So I'm imagining our podcast being transmitted and for some crazy unimaginable reason, someone's trying to jam us. Someone doesn't want our message to get through. Right. Okay. So the wave that's carrying our podcast. Yeah. Is it like as we speak, the waves are getting generated? So, you know, like when I see our audio files on like Audacity, are they being generated like that? Or is it like there's constant waves being created as the message gets sent out across, you know, the sky? And like at the top of one wave is our cannibalism joke and the bottom of the next wave is our white chocolate joke.

26:47And could I guess what I'm wondering is, could you generate a wave to destructively interfere or would you need to know what somebody was going to say to generate the wave? Like how how complicated would it be? Does that question make sense? Yeah. Great question. It is complicated, especially because our podcast and almost all audio comes at multiple frequencies. Like I speak at a range of frequencies. You speak at a different range of frequencies. like my voice would sound very different if I only spoke at one frequency, right? There's a whole range. That's what contributes to it sounding like me and somebody else sounding like somebody else.

27:23That's why like violins sound different from pianos, even if they play the same note, right? They have a different like mixture of frequencies. So that's number one that makes it complicated. But you're asking like, do you need to know the signal in advance to destructively interfere? And also we're not talking about jamming right now. We're talking about destructive interference, right? Just to clarify what that is. So the best way to destructively interfere is, yes, to know exactly what the signal is in advance and to play the anti-version of it, right? The one that wiggles down instead of up, and then it would perfectly cancel out.

27:52Usually, your noise-canceling headphones don't know that, right? But they have a microphone, they listen to the sound, and then they calculate what you would need to do to counteract it and generate that on the fly. That sounds really complicated. It's very cool. Yeah. Yes, it's incredible. But it only works when those two waves overlap very locally, right? They generate that noise so that in your ear, the two waves go the opposite directions. But those two waves don't go the opposite directions everywhere, right? They generate it so that those two waves are out of phase right in your ear. But they're not out of phase somewhere else.

28:28Just like, you know, how when you walk around your living room, sometimes the sound constructively interferes and it's loud. Sometimes it's quiet, right? That's because phase depends on distance, right? Where you are in the wiggle, are you up or down? Depends on how far you are from the source. So you can do destructive interference, and that's an excellent way to cancel out somebody's signal, but you can only do it one place. So if you're the Soviet Union and you want to jam, like, broadcast a voice of America across Europe, there's no way to do that with destructive interference unless you're, like, buying everybody noise-canceling headphones and putting them on their head.

29:03Each one would have to generate a different cancellation signal based on where that person is, right? There's no way to cancel it broadly all over Europe or even over like a two meter span. It's very, very sensitive and very, very localized. So destructive interference, very cool, very powerful, very amazing technology, but not the basis of signal jamming because you can't do it over a broad area. All right. So destructive interference out. Not nice. instead signal jamming is much cruder it's just your annoying sibling shouting in your ear right and so you're right you have to target the right frequency if kelly is expecting to get a signal from daniel at a certain frequency then to jam that signal you just make a bunch of noise at the same frequency and you want to make it like unpleasant or you want to make it like really loud and uninteresting you know to drown out the interesting stuff and so like early jammers from the Soviet Union, for example, they used to be powered by a diesel engine.

30:03So like a diesel engine generating the electricity you needed to generate the signal. And they were like, well, what signal are we going to send? And they decided just to send the sound of that diesel engine as the jamming signal at that frequency. So, you know. Because it happened to be the right frequency or they adjusted it up or down to be the right frequency. Yeah, they adjusted it. But it has like a little bit of natural variation, which makes it harder to filter out, you know? So it's like a jugga, jugga, jugga, jugga, jugga. It's like a really annoying sound. sound effects. Yeah, I know.

30:31Or other classic choices are bagpipes, which I think is just like, you know, choosing to weaponize Scottish culture, I guess. Not cool. I mean, you can't send haggis over the airwaves. So this is like the second best thing we can do. Yeah, good. Can you find a third way to isolate our Scottish listeners, Daniel? I'm just speaking to the power of their culture, you know? I see. Yeah, to be aware. I'm a big fan of Scots. I've hired several Scottish postdocs. I've recently been to Scotland. I wore a kilt. I had a great time. Love Scotland for the record. Do you love haggis and bagpipes, Daniel? Let's move on.

31:11Daniel, where does the phrase jamming come from? Because I don't usually think of jamming as meaning like make a lot of noise to drown out something else. I think of jamming as like, you know, putting a wrench in something to stop it altogether. I mean, this is a really fun question because jam has so many meanings, right? Like there's a strawberry jam you make at the end of the summer. And I used to think that that was the connection with signal jamming, that like you were throwing a pot of jam onto somebody's radar dish or whatever. But it's not. It's more like a log jam, you know, how you can like have a traffic jam, things get clogged up.

31:49And so signal jamming is like clogging up signals, not making strawberry jam, or not hanging out and playing the electric guitar with your goth friends in the garage in the afternoon, which is also another kind of jamming. Or we be jamming. I'm not going to do any more singing. I don't want to alienate any other groups of people. We'll move on. Alienate? You're getting invitations. Somebody out there was like, that's the voice I need on my hip-hop album. Well, but then I went and sort of almost sang, so they're going to rescind that invitation immediately. So, all right, moving on. But the basic idea is you create a signal that's hard to filter.

32:27If you're trying to interfere with me sending messages to Kelly, for example, and you create noise at just one particular frequency, Kelly could just delete that from what she's hearing and listen on another frequency. Or I can shift my frequency a little bit so it's not on the noise frequency. And you're going to talk to me like this instead?

32:48and so you know to be effective at jamming you want to do it broadly over a few frequencies and you want to send something that's harder to remove like we know that noise can be removed our amazing audio wizard matt removes noise from these tracks all the time but the hardest noise to remove is like variable noise unpredictable noise so if you want to be hard to remove you got to generate unpredictable noise. And that's why like bagpipes or diesel engines are better than just like a single piercing note. Okay. All right. Are there other ways to jam? Yeah. It's like an arms race of cleverness here.

33:24Some people do things like capture the real signal and then modify it and retransmit a deceptive version of it. So, you know, you're like taking Daniel's message and you're adding a bunch of quantum woo to it. And then you're sending that to Kelly and she's getting very confused because it sounds like Daniel, but it's full of nonsense. And so this is like more powerful, more subtle signal jamming. But basically all these things are loud radio shouters. Just be really, really loud. And the idea is to have your jammer close to the receiver. So you're trying to interfere with the signal sent from California to Virginia.

34:00So you set up near Kelly's farm, you create one of these jammers. You're not going to interfere with my signals going to Hawaii or whatever, but you're going to interfere with Kelly getting the signal because you can be louder for Kelly than I am because you're closer to her. These jammers, when they're effective, typically fairly localized. Why can't a jammer that's sending like a diesel engine sound or whatever be just as effective as the original message if it's sent out as strongly as the original method? It can, absolutely. If you have that much power to send out a really loud jamming message, then yes.

34:35And we can talk about some examples of that. But typically, the range depends on the power and the proximity. You can buy a cheap handhold cell phone jammer that works 30 to 50 meters. So you can walk around in a way that nobody can get a phone call or nobody can send you a phone call. The military has more powerful jammers that work hundreds of meters away. But I should note before I talk about these things, these things are totally illegal. Oh, okay. I was going to ask why more people haven't messed with their exes using these things, but okay, totally illegal. Yeah, totally legal. In almost every country in the world, it's illegal to build one of these things, mostly because they interfere with emergency communications.

35:18It's hard to overcome these things. And if somebody needs to make a phone call, a 911 call or something, it could be bad. Like there's a guy in 2002 in France who installed a jammer because he was frustrated by his kids' use of phones late at night. And he knocked out service for the whole town for like hours and hours. And yeah, that guy got in a lot of trouble. Oh, no. So, you know, parenting gone, high tech wrong. So how did he get a jammer? Or was he like super smart and he made his own jammer because he just kind of knew what he was doing? These things are totally legal, but you can buy them.

35:54Oh. Okay. Yeah, people are out there building them and selling them. And so, yeah, for sure, they exist. And you could probably even buy one online. It's not that hard. But anybody out there who's listening should know these things are totally illegal. And so when you get caught, don't say, Daniel told me how this works and I decided to do it. Yeah, no, we're talking jail time, fines, rights. Don't blame DKEU. We told you so. Exactly. And these things just get more and more sophisticated. Our description of messages was essentially how analog messages work. You're encoding it somehow directly into the waveform.

36:31But modern communication is mostly digital, right? We're transforming the waves somehow into digital signals, zeros and ones, which involves some sort of binning, right? So you have thresholds, et cetera, et cetera. And these digital signals also use complex modulation techniques. So like you're shifting the phase. there's all sorts of back and forth between like the receiver and the transmitter do they recognize each other you know okay i'm ready send the signal now okay i got it this checksums back and forth it's not as simple as just like i'm broadcasting in the clear for anybody to listen to and so more complicated digital signal jammers can be really subtle they can like send a fake handshake to say hey i'm the sender and they can keep doing that and it like traps the receiver in an infinite loop, it's sort of like almost more like hacking than like jamming.

37:21You're just confusing the receiver so it can't actually hear the real message. Oh, wow. And so you can't like change the channel at that point or? And so the response is to like shift the channel constantly, you know, defense mechanism. We'll get into that in a minute. There are approaches to avoid this, but there are other technologies that are easier to jam like Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. Like if you have many devices, they avoid talking over each other. Before your phone transmits via Bluetooth, it listens via Bluetooth to hear, is anybody else transmitting? If so, I'll just wait. So they avoid colliding with each other.

37:54And so if you just are constantly shouting at that frequency, you basically block all Bluetooth. So you can block Wi-Fi and Bluetooth more easily because they're very polite technologies, right? They're avoiding colliding with you. And so if If you're just really, really rude and loud all the time, then a continuous transmission like that can effectively block signals. Oh, good. We're becoming more vulnerable over time. Lovely. All right. Well, let's take a break. And when we come back, let's take a bit of a stroll through jamming history and see times that this has been used in the past.

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40:56All right. Welcome back to Daniel and Kelly's Extraordinary Universe. And now that we're all experts on the science of jamming, let's take a little stroll through the history of jamming. And Daniel will tell us about when jamming has been used in the past. Yeah. So, you know, we developed electronic transmissions in the early 1900s. So, you know, radio and all this kind of stuff. And then it was very, very important in World War II. The radio and radar became very important. And radar is just sending out more electromagnetic pulses and seeing how they bounce back and using that to detect jets, et cetera.

41:30And so radar jamming became very important. You didn't want to be spotted when you were zooming in for your bombing sortie. And so airplanes could send out false radar signals. You send out pulses that make it sound like you got bounced back from something else or et cetera. Then you could jam radar. If you're just constantly sending pulses at somebody's radar, then they can't hear anything. If your planes are coming in, but you have another device that's like shooting a huge amount of radar specifically at that listener, then they can't use their radar to detect your planes. I guess as someone who's more of a fish person than a bird person, I was thinking of the submarines.

42:07Were they jamming the submarine radars too? Yeah, exactly. The same kind of thing happens for submarines. You can also jam radio like the BBC broadcast over the continent. And the Nazis were not big fans of the BBC. They thought it was, you know, left-leaning media bias, as we often hear. And so they tried to jam that radio, essentially just broadcast at the same frequency as loudly as possible so that you just can't hear the BBC. Wow. And then there's hilarious stories like Russians left mines all over Finland, but these were radioactivated mines so they could be remotely detonated. Oh, yikes.

42:44And so the Finns figured out what frequency it was, and they played polka music continuously for like five months at that same frequency. So the Russians couldn't activate their mines. And then by that point, the batteries in the mines had died. That's amazing. I know. I love the polka defense. Does polka music come from Finland? I don't think so. I thought it was more German. I associate it more with like Oktoberfest, so I don't know why they chose polka music. I mean, they must have liked it, right? Because they were going to have to listen to it for a long time. All right. So after World War II came the Cold War.

43:23I'm guessing jamming was important then too? Yes, exactly. So the BBC and the Voice of America tried to broadcast into the Soviet Union and the Soviets didn't like that. And so they tried to jam those signals. Same way, they just like create loud broadcasts at the same frequency to interfere. But it's interesting because how well you pick up a distant radio station depends a lot on the atmospheric conditions. Is there a lot of wind between you and there, which changes the density patterns in the air, which creates refractions and reflections? It's sort of like optics. And so as the day goes on, you might hear the BBC louder or quieter or the jammer louder or quieter.

44:01So you might be able to pick up the BBC during some parts of the day during certain weather conditions. The jamming is not 100 % effective. You can also, as a defense mechanism, use directional antennas. The simple model of antenna we talked about before was just like you have a tower, it picks up electrons, but you can also build them to have a more complex structure so they're better at picking up signals in certain directions. Like, for example, this microphone I'm talking to, our audio guy tells me that it's a directional microphone. If I speak at the front of it, then it picks me up better than if I'm speaking at the side of it.

44:35And that's just because of the structure of the electronics inside of it that resonate better with a signal from one direction. And so if you want to only pick up signals from the UK and not from Moscow, you don't want to use a general antenna. You want a directional antenna. Helps you overcome the signal jamming a little bit. Except the Soviets would want to pick up the message from Moscow and not from the UK. But yes, I see your point. Exactly. Well, let's go to one of the best states in the United States. Let's hear about jammers in New Jersey. I was born in New Jersey, so I do so love New Jersey.

45:10So as a reminder, jamming is totally illegal, but there was a guy in 2013 in New Jersey who wanted to evade company tracking. Like he was driving a work truck and the company had a GPS tracker on it and he didn't want them to know when he like, you know, went in and out or took a nap in the side of the turnpike for two hours or whatever. So he bought a cheap GPS jammer and he put it on his work truck and it worked, but it also jammed all the systems at Newark Airport, causing huge chaos for airport traffic. And yeah, so he was fined tens of thousands of dollars for creating that hassle. So again, these things, totally illegal, do not use them.

45:51I mean, he's lucky like planes didn't crash into each other and a bunch of people died. He's like, he didn't go to jail or something. But yes, totally illegal, friends. Exactly. And jamming extends not just on the surface of the Earth. You could also interfere with communications into space, right? A lot of our communications these days goes via satellite. And satellites require sending messages up to the satellite and then receiving messages back down from the satellite. So that's two opportunities to interfere with the signals. There's uplink jamming and downlink jamming. Are satellites, do you think they're like any more or less susceptible?

46:29Because they have like, do they have specific places where messages are received that you could like sneak up to and jam? Or everything has that and so that doesn't make them any more susceptible? No, they are more and less susceptible. Like on one hand, they're less susceptible because they're far away. And so like if you want to interfere with uplink jamming, then you need to really send a powerful signal to get to the satellite. Like if you want to interfere with that signal from the ground, you send a signal at the same frequency. And that's powerful because you could like disrupt everybody who's using that satellite if you overwhelm the satellite with some signal.

47:04But you need a really powerful signal to do that, to get to the satellite. On the other hand, satellites can broadcast over a huge range on the surface of the earth, right? And so if you want to mimic satellite transmissions, that's much, much harder because you'd need to like access where everybody is. And so to make it harder for ground receivers to receive those messages from satellites is pretty tricky because they have such a broad range. I thought you said it was going to be easier and harder, but it just sounds like it's harder and harder. Okay. Well, the easier bit actually is, unfortunately, this is pretty easy to do.

47:41Like, it's not expensive or complicated to interfere with satellite communications. There's a fairly low threshold of technical competency you need to do this, which is why we see interference with satellite communications from lots of countries around the world. Indonesia, Cuba, Ethiopia, Libya, Syria, all these places have, for military reasons, and so does the US, of course, technology to interfere with satellites. And again, this is totally illegal in U.S. law and also violates International Telecommunications Union. But if you want to buy one, they're like the size of a hockey puck. So it's not expensive.

48:19It's not complicated. It's not even very big. And this is a potentially very large issue. The United Nations put out a warning calling for urgent protection of radio navigation satellite service to support accurate global navigation and timekeeping. So it's definitely a big issue. And it's actually happened. Like satellites have definitely been jammed. Tell us stories because this kind of stuff keeps me up at night. Like if something happens to all of our satellites, I mean, one, I've been living in Charlottesville, Virginia for six years now. I still use my GPS. I would be toast if satellites were, you know, out of commission tomorrow and I couldn't use GPS anymore.

49:00Well, I read this hilarious interview with General John Hyten, who's head of the Air Force Space Command. And somebody asked him if there had been actual instances of satellite jamming. And he said that in 2015, there were 261 cases where they had been jammed from getting information from their satellites down to the ground segment. And then the interviewer asked them how many of those cases were from adversaries, bad actors or enemies or other governments. And he says, zero. What? Then where are they coming from? He says these are almost always self-jamming. People broadcast, the military is broadcasting constantly at all sorts of frequencies.

49:41And so they just are not organized enough to not jam themselves. And so he thinks that 200 times in that one year, they unwittingly interfered with their own signals. Because the EM spectrum is very, very complicated. And a small mistake can create huge strategic impacts. So this is definitely an issue. But presumably – so I don't remember hearing in 2015 that we jammed ourselves in something absolutely catastrophic happened. So presumably these are mostly minor things that we do that have happened. Exactly. The small delay, we can't hear from the satellite, we lost the connection to the satellite, what's going on, reboot the machine, okay, now it's working.

50:21That kind of situation is what I'm imagining. But there are times in conflict zones when this has definitely happened. Like Libya, in 2006, jammed a mobile satellite provider called Tharia, and a long investigation concluded the jamming came from Libya. So they decided they were going to jam this whole provider of mobile satellite communications. And is Tharia a Libyan company? Were they trying to – was it a company that the Libyan government didn't like, or was it some other countries? It's not clear. It came from Libya, and the government of Libya is one of the shareholders of this company. So it's not even really clear exactly what the motivation was.

51:00Huh. All right. And then in Iran in 2002, there's another case of jamming. And of course, in conflict zones right now, like Russia has been accused of jamming GPS signals to interfere with the Ukraine military. And also, Russia was accused of affecting flights over Eastern Europe by jamming GPS signals. There was a time when the European Commission president, her plane was forced to land because signals were jammed. She was forced to land in Bulgaria. Wow. And they suspected interference by Russia. Yikes. For a lot of these things, I wonder how hard it is to figure out who did the jamming. Because if you like remove the – if you turn off the jammer and you remove the device, it's probably hard to know like did a country jam our stuff or did we self-jam?

51:50And to be clear, I'm not trying to be like, well, do we really know it's Russia? I'm not trying to exonerate Russia in this particular instance or anything. I'm just saying this kind of stuff is hard, which I wonder could make it used in war situations more often just because it's the kind of thing that you can like say, oh, we didn't do it. Prove it. Prove it if you think we did. Yeah, because these signals can go really far distances, it's hard to tell exactly where they're coming from. And then even if you figure out where they were coming from, the jammer is not necessarily there anymore. And so, yeah, it's pretty effective and pretty easy to hide.

52:23But there are other things you can do to defend yourself. You can increase the power of your signal, just be louder than the noise. You can use a directional antenna like we mentioned earlier. Or you can change frequencies. Like instead of just broadcasting on one frequency, you can have a plan with the person listening to your signal of how you're going to change frequencies. Like we agree on a schedule and we'll switch, we'll hop between frequencies. That makes it harder to jam. It does mean, I mean, with satellites, you have to apply for frequencies through the International Telecommunications Union.

52:56So I wonder if that makes it hard to have secrets for like which frequencies you're going to bounce between because you need to register for the frequencies you're going to be using. Yeah, but usually you register for a range. And so if you move within that range in a specific pattern, then it can work. And in fact, this was an invention of Hollywood actress Hattie Lamar. She co-invented frequency hopping technology back in 1942 to help prevent the Nazis from jamming radio-guided torpedoes. Yeah, very cool. She's a Hollywood actress and a radio frequency genius. And that technology is used like now in modern Wi-Fi and GPS and all sorts of stuff.

53:34That's awesome. That's cool. Way to go. And advanced drones also do this to avoid being jammed. I mean, if somebody's controlling a drone, they're doing it using signals. And if you can jam those signals, they can lose control of their drone, right? So the higher end drones have this sort of technology where the controller and the drone agree on the frequency schedule, essentially, to avoid being jammed or to be less susceptible. But really, the best defense against being jammed is to find the jammer and turn off the jammer, you know, in some way. That's really the best thing you can do. When you say turn off the jammer, I guess when I think of the jammer, I think of the person who's doing the jamming.

54:12And I was like, well, Daniel, that sounds very intense. But yes, I guess turn off the equipment. But all right. Well, I had fun jamming with you today, Daniel, and I learned a lot. So that is how signal jamming works. And I hope that understanding the physics of this technology gives you more insight into how everything around you is working, how they're all talking to each other, and how mostly it works seamlessly, even if we get frustrated at our dishwashers. And our electrofishing boats. And if my dishwasher is sentient and is tapped into the podcast network and is listening to this, I'm not apologizing.

54:48Message to my Bosch. You're doing a great job. I appreciate you. Thank you for your hard work. All right. And you all are doing a great job of expanding your minds in this extraordinary universe. Thanks, everyone. Until next time.

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