Autumn & Spring Equinox vs. Satellites
A little known fact. An equinox, both spring and autumn, will momentarily interrupt satellite communications. Bruce
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Gene&Ginny wrote:We own 2 transponders on another satellite and all the stations now have auto changeover gear that makes it completely seamless. When the sun moves out of the window everything switches back, ready to go again. Sure takes the fun out of the old days when it was all manual..
The broadcasters have known this since day one. The first TV network to use satellite for network video was PBS. Their training videos said there would be 2 times per year when the signal would be lost. They advised stations to have a prerecorded tape cued up and each station would be notified in advance of the times they would lose signal. Each station was different since the alignment of the sun to the bird was different at each station.
