Subj : Re: Outage
To   : Avon
From : n2qfd
Date : Sun May 12 2024 09:13 am

 Av> Yeah in my case it was a deliberate shutdown as I was concerned about
 Av> the gear getting fried etc. but I think it was probably overly cautious
 Av> on my part.

 No, I disagree. I think it was pretty responsible. This is a hobby and no sense in making work out of it due to loss! Plus I was thinking the same thing here, I left mine up as a sort of experiment figuring it wasn't going to be the end of the world if I did loose it. 
 I've been called a whacka-do for tracking solar activity but I worked in survey and we're pretty dependent on GPS these days. That being said, most of the time I'm keeping an eye on the sun to account for odd behaviors and data discrepancy.The satellites up there can experience a double whammy of both particulate matter causing drag as well as hull charging and electrostatics. As they are just flying clock/radios it's not much of nudge and the Airmen in Colorado are scrambling to get the ephemeris updated! 

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