No one likes radio interference - not hams and certainly not airline pilots. Stuff for Colin

Radio interference that has created electronic spoofing of GPS signals is reported to be interfering with aircraft attempting to land at Israel's Ben Gurion airport, according to several news outlets. The Times of Israel reports that the signals are coming from defence systems installed in Syria by Russia and they are having an impact on commercial airliners.

State-owned Israeli TV station KAN said that Moscow has told Israel the signals are part of defense systems designed to protect Russian soldiers in Syria. A pilot told the KAN news outlet that the signals during the last four weeks have been as strong as those experienced in early 2019. The pilot said, however, that those earlier signals eventually stopped. He told the station "“What we’ve run into is [electromagnetic] spectrum interference from the east, which has taken us a while to understand what it is."

The reports said that officials believe the interference with commercial planes is collateral damage and that the jamming is directed elsewhere.