20010926: Solar Outage (fwd)

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• Subject: 20010926: Solar Outage (fwd)
• From: Linda Miller <lmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 07:53:33 -0600

SUBJECT:  AWIPS SBN INTERRUPTIONS DUE TO SOLAR ECLIPSE

PLEASE PASS TO MIC/HIC,  ESA, AWIPS FOCAL POINT

EFFECTIVE SEPTEMBER 26 THROUGH OCTOBER 19, THE SUN WILL ALIGN WITH THE
GE-4
SPACECRAFT DAILY CREATING A SOLAR ECLIPSE.  THE SOLAR ECLIPSE COULD
POTENTIALLY  DEGRADE OR  INTERRUPT A SITE?S RECEPTION OF THE AWIPS SBN
DATA.
EACH SITE WILL BE EXPOSED TO THE SOLAR ECLIPSE UP TO 20 MINUTES PER DAY
BETWEEN 1800Z AND 1900Z.

SITES EXPERIENCING A LOSS OF DATA ON THE NWSTG CHANNEL DUE TO THE SOLAR
ECLIPSE WILL HAVE DATA RETRANSMITTED AUTOMATICALLY.     HOWEVER, SITES
THAT
EXPERIENCE LOSS OF GOES IMAGERY WILL NOT HAVE THOSE PRODUCTS
RETRANSMTTED.

RC



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