barrage jam

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barrage jam - jam an entire frequency spectrum; "During the Cold War, the Soviets routinely barrage jammed to interfere with transmissions from the West"

block, jam - interfere with or prevent the reception of signals; "Jam the Voice of America"; "block the signals emitted by this station"

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Each Carpet jammed over a bandwidth of only about 2 to 3 MHz, so those of the 448th had to be set up on different frequencies to barrage jam the entire Wurzburg band.

Slowly we began to see the weekly histogram showing the Wurzburg frequencies extended over a wider and wider band, u ntil it was impossible for the Carpets carried by the group formation to barrage jam them all.