If you had an exact timing for the outage, would that have told you the beam-width of your antenna?
-- project for next spring :-) On 10/9/2014 1:04 PM, Mike Feher wrote: > Bob - > > I do not believe it has any effect. The DirecTV satellites are geostationary > at about 22K miles. I used to experience the same phenomenon in the late 70's > with my TVRO receiver at C band. GPS has some 36 or so satellites in a Medium > Earth Orbit (MEO). Blockage, if it can even occur due to the nature of the > receiving antenna, of a single one for a few minutes will have no discernible > effect in my opinion. 73 - Mike > > Mike B. Feher, EOZ Inc. > 89 Arnold Blvd. > Howell, NJ, 07731 > 732-886-5960 office > 908-902-3831 cell > > -----Original Message----- > From: time-nuts [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Bob Stewart > Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2014 1:40 PM > To: Time Nuts > Subject: [time-nuts] Sun Outage > > Two days this week, there was a 3 or 4 minute outage on DirecTV as the sun > aligned with the satellite and my dish. So I was wondering what kind of > effect this has on the GPS system and especially timing receivers. > > > Bob - AE6RV > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
