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Solar Wipeout Season

spongebob · 2003-03-13 12:32:05

Around this time of year (and in October) the Sun is lined up with your Sat Dish from Directly behind the Satellites in line. You will get an outage for a minute or two until the sun moves off. Time is around 11 Am these days. There is a calculator for inputting your location and the satellite location. Galway is around…

13-03-2003 1:32pm

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Around this time of year (and in October) the Sun is lined up with your Sat Dish from Directly behind the Satellites in line.

You will get an outage for a minute or two until the sun moves off.

Time is around 11 Am these days. There is a calculator for inputting your location and the satellite location.

Galway is around 53n and 9.1w for example.
Hotbird Sat is around 13e

The Calculator and science explanations are Here

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#2 13-03-2003 2:58pm

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That is one reason why that though Dishes are conductive so to be radio wave mirrors, they have matt darkish paint.

If the dish was very reflective it woult be a permenant outage with big dishes as the LNB plastic goes on fire!

We are also only 1 year after peak of 11 year Solar cycle with most solar wind / noise (i.e. last year would be best for "Northern lights" and 4 years time the worst). Severe solar storm "Northern Lights" have been seen as far south as Spain!

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