We are coming to that time of the year soon where the SUN is directly behind the Satellite thus you will have no signal for 20 to 30 minutes.<br />Now everbody will be hit by this and the only variant is the time when it hits you will differs from states to state and locations. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/default/smile.gif" /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/default/smile.gif" /> <br />Now again this effects all satellites.!!!!!! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/default/smile.gif" />

Magnetic signal Rain...From Sun<br />Even NASA will get efected.

No exception it effect all

Solar flares which are the most energetic explosions in the solar system have a direct effect on the Earth's atmosphere. <br />A solar flare is defined as an enormous explosion which is observed as a sudden, rapid, and intense variation in brightness in the solar atmosphere. It is believed to result from the sudden release of energy stored in the magnetic fields that thread the solar corona in active regions around sunspots involving sudden bursts of particle acceleration, pleasma heating, and bulk mass motion. <br />The Earth's upper atmosphere becomes more ionized and expands. <br />Long distance radio signals can be disrupted by the resulting change in the Earth's ionosphere. <br />A satellite's orbit around the Earth can be disturbed by the enhanced drag on the satellite from the expanded atmosphere. Satellite's electronic components can be damaged. So a flare index is needed to study all the probable solar activities which affect our satellite environment and Earth atmosphere. FLARE INDEX is one of the best indicators of activity variations on the chromosphere. This feature makes the flare index a suitable full-disk solar index for comparison with similar solar indices which reflect different physical conditions from the different layers of the solar atmosphere.

Well said!.

when is that gonna be. any idesa

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Krapola:<br /><strong> Are you guy's attempting to explaing Sun outages buy utilize the term of Solar Flares? They are not the same... </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">No Its just that twice a year coming imto summer or going into Winter in our region all the Satellite have there turn of being wiped out by sun outage and as you know its no signal time and I repeatly get asked this twice a year by plenty of members on the forum. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/default/smile.gif" />

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Krapola:<br /><strong> Sun Outage Calculator </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I will make The Calculator a sticky post for all to use.<br />thanks<br />Phil