NOTE: The nws-changes mailing list is no longer active. The list archives are made available for historical reasons.
524 NOUS72 KNCF 301301 ADMNCF PLEASE PASS TO MIC/HIC, ESA, ITO, AND SOO SUBJ: AWIPS SBN INTERRUPTIONS DUE TO SOLAR ECLIPSE BEGINNING TODAY AND CONTINUING THROUGH OCTOBER 19, THE SUN WILL ALIGN WITH THE GE-4 SPACECRAFT IN SUCH A WAY THAT SOLAR RF ENERGY WILL DEGRADE OR INTERRUPT RECEIPT OF AWIPS SBN TRANSMISSION FOR MANY SITES. THIS INTERFERENCE WILL LAST ABOUT 20 MINUTES AND WILL OCCUR BETWEEN 18:10Z AND 19:20Z OVER A PERIOD OF 10 DAYS. THE 10 DAY PERIOD WHEN THIS WILL OCCUR WILL DEPEND ON THE LATITUDE OF THE RECEIVING SITE. THE 10-DAY PERIOD WILL BEGIN SOONER FOR SOUTHERN SITES, LATER FOR NORTHERN SITES. THE AWIPS SBN AUTOMATIC RETRANSMISSION FEATURE WILL ENSURE THAT AWIPS SITES DO NOT EXPERIENCE DATA LOSS FOR THE NWSTG AND NOAAPORT CHANNELS. THERE IS NO RETRANSMISSION CAPABILITY FOR THE GOES-E AND GOES-W CHANNELS. Ncf/kbb ---------- End Forwarded Message ----------
nws-changes archives: