<story><title>Someone is jamming BBC broadcasts in the Middle East</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/statements/transmission-interference.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jgrahamc</author><text>This isn&apos;t that hard to do. You just need a dish, a suitable power source and point it at the satellite. Because of the, in general, wide area that a satellite is looking down on the transmitter can be anywhere in quite a wide area (even when you are talking about the relatively narrow uplink antenna).&lt;p&gt;Given that these satellites are geostationary they can be seen from a very wide area on the ground. Back in 2003 Telstar-12 was jammed from a station in Cuba apparently run by Iran (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EH22Ak03.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EH22Ak03.html&lt;/a&gt;) to block transmissions to the Americas and Europe.</text></comment>
<story><title>Someone is jamming BBC broadcasts in the Middle East</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/statements/transmission-interference.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thepumpkin1979</author><text>Since I&apos;m not a native English speaker, I had to google what &quot;Jamming&quot; was about and found this article in Wikipedia where actually explains the difference between Jamming and Interference.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_jamming&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_jamming&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>