[time-nuts] Satellite TV messed up, how is GPS time

David I. Emery die at dieconsulting.com
Fri Nov 4 22:19:13 UTC 2016


On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 05:51:35PM -0400, Don Murray via time-nuts wrote:
> DirecTV and DishNetwork are on Ku-Band platforms.
> Ku-Band is not affected by sun outage.

	I beg to differ !!!

	The sun is still plenty energetic enough at 10-12 Ghz to
override weak satellite transmissions.   

	In fact the solar flux is measured at 10 Ghz...

	Solar outages are not greatly worse on C band.

	It WAS true that EIRPs at C band were kept lower at one time (to
protect the now mostly completely abandoned terrestrial C band microwave
telephone network which shares 3.7-4.2 Ghz with C band satellite) than
at Ku band, but that is less true today...



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