[time-nuts] Solar flare alert
Jim Lux
jimlux at earthlink.net
Sat Jul 14 16:22:59 UTC 2012
On 7/14/12 9:19 AM, Joseph Gray wrote:
> Perhaps some of the cellular bands aren't affected, perhaps some are.
> I don't know the specific cause of yesterday's loss.. GPS uses around
> 1200/1500 MHz. The phone in question uses 850/1900 Mhz bands, so I
> think we're in the neighborhood.
>
GPS signals pass through the ionosphere which greatly affected by solar
weather.
Terrestrial cellphone signals do not pass through the ionosphere, so
flares don't necessarily change things. There is anecdotal evidence,
though, that solar activity can change the environmental RF background
noise level, and that could have an effect on cellphone link margins.
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