Gary Bojczak may face a $31,875 fine for operating a...
Gary Bojczak may face a $31,875 fine for operating a GPS jamming device, said a notice of apparent liability approved by the commission. The unlawful operation caused harmful interference to a ground-based augmentation system operated by the Port Authority of…
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New York and New Jersey “and designed to increase the precision of GPS-based navigation at Newark Liberty International Airport,” said the NAL (http://bit.ly/18S8Dk4). Last year, an FCC agent determined that signals emanating from Bojczak’s vehicle were blocking the reception of GPS signals by the GPS receivers used in the ground-based augmentation system at the airport in Newark, it said. Bojczak “voluntarily surrendered the jammer to the FCC agent,” it said. He apparently committed unlawful operation, used illegal equipment and interfered with authorized communications in connection with the illegal GPS jammer operated near the airport, the commission said.