QO-100 solar outage week.

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G4EWJ
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QO-100 solar outage week.

Post by G4EWJ » Fri Oct 07, 2022 10:46 pm

Time to go outside and see if my neighbour's trees are encroaching on the path to the satellite. Typically, the only trees within 50m are in my neighbour's garden to the south. The peak outage for me near Liverpool is 10:52 local on Wednesday.

I use this calculator: https://www.satellite-calculations.com/ ... erence.php

Select Es'Hail-2.
There's no need to fill in the rest of the parameters if all you want are the peak times.
Scroll the map and double-click, or put your address in the box below the map and click "Get location from address".
Refine the position by double-clicking. It only lets you have a few tries.
The location shown in the info box is not always correct, but the lat / long seems to be.

This one is useful for finding the time of local solar noon, which varies from day to day. https://gml.noaa.gov/grad/solcalc/index.html

Brian
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Re: QO-100 solar outage week.

Post by PA3CRX » Sat Oct 08, 2022 9:27 am

It could really heat up your LNB.
Short video about this: https://youtu.be/6G4nREMqU2E
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Re: QO-100 solar outage week.

Post by G4EWJ » Mon Feb 27, 2023 4:45 pm

It's QO-100 solar outage week again. 10:18 local on Wednesday for me near Liverpool.

Brian

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Re: QO-100 solar outage week.

Post by g6hfs » Mon Feb 27, 2023 11:56 pm

Hi,

For me near Cambridge was Sunday 26th before 11:00 (signal dropped by 50%) managed to get a pic

Brian
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Re: QO-100 solar outage week.

Post by G4EWJ » Tue Feb 28, 2023 1:31 pm

It should be at its worst tomorrow and Thursday and then start tailing off.

Brian

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Re: QO-100 solar outage week.

Post by g6hfs » Tue Feb 28, 2023 4:05 pm

Ok cheers

Brian

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