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