When a good sun goes bad...

Dear StarBand Member,

We know that some members have experienced occasional outages recently, and as we mentioned in our last member newsletter, this is the time of year the natural phenomenon of "sun outages" occurs.

What is a sun outage? The sun never goes out! Well, that's not what we mean. Sun outages occur when the sun positions itself directly in line with your location and behind the satellite in the sky.

The reference to an "outage" is when your StarBand antenna cannot hear the signal from the satellite -- the satellite signal did not go away, but the sun overpowered your antenna with "noise".

Sun outages happen usually twice a year, in the spring and in the fall. The length of the "outage" varies from day to day during this period, and should subside over the next week or so. Please be patient and bear with us, as we have no control over this natural phenomenon.

Thank you.
The StarBand Team

Not that this explains why their proxy is being so chinchy in handing out fresh pages...here, here's a nice page I cached last week...hardly ever been read.

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