On Aug 29, 1:31*pm, You wrote:
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*derek wrote:
On Aug 29, 10:00*am, wrote:

No X-ray events, radio burst alerts, geomagnetic warnings, electron
flux alerts, proton flux alerts, sunspots, or anything else.

* Perth, *Western Australia

* * *Foxtel went off air Thurs morning 5am approx for a short
time * * *with a notice saying it was due to solar activity.

*Derek

This just shows that Foxtel's Public Media types don't understand the
technology that they use..... Sun Outages happen twice a year for a
couple of days in a row each time. *The Sun's Track lines up behind the
GeoSync Sats position, in relation to the receiving Antenna, and the
sun's noise overwhelms the Signal in the receiver. This whole deal is
nothing NEW, just misunderstood by the Bloody Wonk, who wrote the Press
Release....

Let us put it into perspective. I used the term "sunburst" because I
thought it was an isolated strong sun spotas it is so early in the
cycle. But if they used the term sunburst as refering to its noise
level then no harm done as far as notifying the viewing public. Except
for me it appears that hams in general are aware of the true phenomina
and are not expecting the Sun to fall from the sky. A lot of excellent
explanations came thru and I enjoyed them. Ofcourse, if it a
subsidiary of FOX in the US then pile it on by all means
Thanks