Posted on 02/27/2006 3:38:34 PM PST by SandRat
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (NNS) -- Viewers and listeners of the American Forces Network (AFN) may experience brief programming interruptions from Feb. 28 through March 12 as the spring "sun outage" period occurs.
These seasonal outages, which take place each spring and fall, affect all satellite communications, including the AFN radio and television services distributed by the AFN Broadcast Center from the Defense Media Center (DMC) at Riverside, Calif.
Sun outage-related programming interruptions are characterized by a complete loss of signal for as much as several minutes. The interruptions occur when the sun's position aligns with broadcast satellites and Earth-station receivers. The sun's radiation overpowers the broadcast signal causing this disruption of service.
The effect of sun outages on satellite-delivered programming received by the DMC will be minimal because alternate satellite feeds of incoming programming can be used to avoid sun outages. However, worldwide AFN affiliates may experience more significant disruption due to their reliance on a single satellite feed of the AFN services.
This spring's sun outages will be the most severe from March 4-9.
"Women and minorites to be hardest hit."
I was in the army for 9 years and only had AFN for the 7 years I was in Germany. I absolutely HATED it. When I was living off post I had to pay 25 bucks a month to rent an AFN decoder. 25 bucks! To see 6 channels, 2 of which showed the exact same thing.
Don't even get me started on just how horrible, and leftist, AFN radio is.
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