"Art Unwin" wrote in message
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Aussiland television was turned off for a short while yesterday.
Statement made that there was a sunburst aproaching the satellites!
They were only off for a short while but it would appear the sunspot
cycle has become alive!

no solar activity... eclipse season maybe? for a short time each spring and
fall geostationary satellites happen to line up with the sun's path,
stations that have no backup satellite may lose signal when their satellite
lines up with the sun for a few minutes and the sun's noise blocks the
satellite signal.