Yes, complains of disturbances
'Syria attack' caused TV disturbances
Costumers of Yes Satellite Television complain of broadcast disturbances. Investigation reveals espionage ships, aircraft responsible
Espionage ships and aircraft have been causing disturbances in satellite company Yes' broadcasts, Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper reported Thursday.
"The disturbances began on September 6, on the day Damascus announced that IAF aircraft flew in its territory," an Israeli expert said on Wednesday.
"Everyone wants to know what is happening, and this is the result," he said.
Investigations carried out by Yes satellite experts revealed that the disturbances, which caused the images on the screen to freeze, were caused by radar transmissions.
"There is a jungle of powerful transmissions out there," said one of the experts, who claimed that ships cruising in the eastern Mediterranean Sea and spy planes flying over Israel have been transmitting on all kinds of frequencies – even those that are allotted to TV broadcasts according to international treaties.
Yes has appealed to UNIFIL and the German and Dutch embassies, who own the ships, in an attempt to resolve the problem and live in "electromagnetic coexistence".
Espionage ships and aircraft operate passive sensors that pick up electronic signals from military systems and identify their type and location.
These sensors cause no disturbance, but are equipped with powerful radar systems that are used to uncover aerial and ground movement in a certain region.
On Wednesday it was speculated that the disturbances were caused by Syrian espionage activities on northern Israel using Russian experts.
Yes broadcasts from earth to two satellites hovering in space at a constant altitude of 36,000 kilometers. The satellites act as a kind of mirror and reflect the transmissions to earth, to the Yes antennas placed on the customers' roofs.
