From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!houxm!houxa!houxi!houxz!ihnp4!ihuxm!prgclb
Newsgroups: net.video
Title: Re: Satellite TV Outages
Article-I.D.: ihuxm.173
Posted: Tue Mar  8 15:31:41 1983
Received: Thu Mar 10 01:53:47 1983
Reply-To: prgclb@ihuxm.UUCP (Carl Blesch)
References: uw-beave.389

On a tour I took of an AT&T Long Lines earth station,
I learned that Long Lines goes through quite a song-and-dance
twice a year to avoid disrupting phone circuits during
"sun conjunctions".  Around each equinox, they
go through a rather complicated procedure to
reroute traffic to another earth station
during those few minutes that the sun shines right into
their dish.

				Carl Blesch
				Bell Labs - Naperville, Ill.
				IH 2A-159, (312) 979-3360
				ihuxm!prgclb