Solar Outage during televised baseball game

true, this could just be the beginning.

hopefully this is just a one-off thing and we won't be seeing more of this soon.

From [link to masnsports.com]


Programming Note for Sunday, March 7th
By MASN Staff on March 7, 2010 9:20 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Because of a solar outage, viewers of MASN's broadcast of the Sunday afternoon Orioles-Red Sox game may experience a temporary disruption in the broadcast around 3:30 p.m.

A solar outage is a phenomenon that occurs when the sun crosses the equator and traces an arc that places it directly behind the broadcast satellites used for transmitting the baseball game. The sun's powerful solar radiation interferes with the microwave frequencies used to communicate with the satellites, essentially "swamping" the signal from the satellite for a brief period.

The solar outage will occur between 3:28 p.m. and 3:42 p.m. on Sunday.

From [link to www.stripes.com]

Sun to disrupt AFN TV, radio signal in Europe
Stars and Stripes
European edition, Sunday, March 7, 2010

WIESBADEN, Germany — American Forces Network radio and television signals in Europe will be interrupted up to 20 minutes at a time through March 13 due to the sun overpowering the network’s satellite signal, AFN said in an announcement.

Sun outages occur twice a year when satellites "eclipse" the sun and their signals are overpowered by solar radiation, AFN said.

Local sun outages occur when the sun is at its highest point in the sky, the AFN announcement said. However, depending on the number of satellite hops it takes for the AFN signal to arrive at its destination, some AFN customers may see temporary disruptions of their TV signal a few times during peak, sun-outage days

The Sun is Changing Folks.

This isn't anything new. Anyone can search "solar outage" and find pages and pages of information. This occurs.

This cannot be connected to the moon or some change in the sun.

[link to www.google.com]



Here is some good info


[link to www.radio-electronics.com]

+1 It' totally natural ... the Zetards and LucusAKABlackAssHoleSun can calm down now.

no way... is there a video of this or has anyone recorded this by any chance?