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The complexity and sophistication of communications jamming will continue to increase over time. The traditional approach to jammer mitigation is to harden radios, often sacrificing communications performance for more advanced jamming protection. To provide an escape from this trend, we propose a jammer exploitation strategy in which the communications system causes an enemy reactive jammer to act as an unwitting relay. This can lead to an improvement in communications as a result of the jamming attack itself. The strategy proposed in this letter revolves around using a frequency-shift keying waveform that is tuned in such a way to exploit the jammer’s behavior. We derive the channel capacity when using the waveform along with practical coding, and provide numerical results to gain insight.