[time-nuts] Sun Outage

[Chris Howard]

If you had an exact timing for the outage, would that
have told you the beam-width of your antenna?

-- project for next spring  :-)



On 10/9/2014 1:04 PM, Mike Feher wrote:
> Bob -
> 
> I do not believe it has any effect. The DirecTV satellites are geostationary at about 22K miles. I used to experience the same phenomenon in the late 70's with my TVRO receiver at C band. GPS has some 36 or so satellites in a Medium Earth Orbit (MEO). Blockage, if it can even occur due to the nature of the receiving antenna, of a single one for a few minutes will have no discernible effect in my opinion. 73 - Mike 
> 
> Mike B. Feher, EOZ Inc.
> 89 Arnold Blvd.
> Howell, NJ, 07731
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: time-nuts [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On Behalf Of Bob Stewart
> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2014 1:40 PM
> To: Time Nuts
> Subject: [time-nuts] Sun Outage
> 
> Two days this week, there was a 3 or 4 minute outage on DirecTV as the sun aligned with the satellite and my dish.  So I was wondering what kind of effect this has on the GPS system and especially timing receivers.
> 
> 
> Bob - AE6RV
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