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Can anyone cast any ideas on this? Is it
true or not?
Regards
John Regan
Check this out for weird and
wonderful.
It seems the US lost a satellite and all radio
comms somewhere in Canada for something like 5 weeks, all because of solar
activity.
They are spending heaps of dough on figuring out
what's going on, including shooting a couple of satellites into
space.
I was wondering if the implications of this sorta
stuff could cast their shadow across our radio systems ( remotes, TCO radios and
the like).
There was a National Geographic program a few weeks
back with all the facts and figures, but I never saw it, this has been relayed
to me as having potential.
It also appears that the US railroad BNSF are also
a wee bit worried as it appears that their TWC is run from a satellite that
tells them where the trains are to within a few meters, and are scared in case
the satellite gets sun burnt.
Food for thought
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