Radio jamming
Deliberate transmission disruption
Radio jamming is the deliberate transmission of signals to interfere with radio communications, making them difficult or impossible to receive clearly.
Military and authoritarian governments jam enemy broadcasts or suppress dissent.
The technique overwhelms legitimate signals with noise or competing transmissions: The regime jammed foreign news broadcasts during the uprising.
- spoofingFraudulent imitation
- international treatiesFormal agreements between nations
- scrambleMix into disorder
- signal interferenceDisturbance blocking clear reception
- noiseUnwanted auditory disturbance
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Radio jammingsignal boosting
Increasing transmission strength
broadcast · radio transmission · radio reception · radio relay · retransmission
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