Re: satellite problems...

["John Bolduc" <John_Bolduc@Pictel.com>]

Twice a year, spring and autumn (or maybe only autumn) the sun near sunset gets
into an allignment on the horizon so that many satellite receive dishes point
directly into the sun.  This is sort of an eclispe, but instead the satellite is
in line between the earth and the sun (rather than the moon).  The satellite
receiver gets a nasty case of signal overload (increase noise floor) from the
sun until the sun wanders away from the satellite from an earth point of view.
This usually goes on for about a week at slightly different times in the
evening.

That my semi-technical understand of whats happening.

John
Derry NH




"Bill O'Neill" <billo@erols.com> on 10/08/99 07:06:39 PM

To:




 But when it happened today, as well, it
explained it.  Not sunspots, is it?

Bill O'Neilll