Solar Flare Activity, Satellite Interference, Pagers
Recent solar flare activity caused geomagnetic interference, resulting in error messages on Dish Network satellite systems. Historical solar events from the mid-1990s are recalled, specifically a major outage that knocked out Motorola pagers and analog cellular communications for several days. These flares represent the most significant solar activity observed in approximately nine months.
nasa· dish network· solar flares· geomagnetic storm· motorola· pagers
00:00 Hello Taliban, this is Al Qaeda. We want to coordinate with you. Adam Curry John C Devorak Sunday October 17th 2010 time for your Gitmo Nation media assassination episode 244 This is no agenda It is now the fourth day of rain and crap at the Hilltop Watchtower Crackpot Command Center in Gitmo Nation West, in the People's Republic of Southern California. Will it ever stop? In The Morning I'm Adam Curry And from Northern Silicon Valley where its not raining which is a good thing...I am John C. Dvorak And in the morning to you John. In the morning to you and all of the ships at sea! And our human resources who are all charged up and ready in the chatroom at noagendachat.net, the way their government loves them. And remember it ain't over until the fat guy gets tazed It's raining down there? Oh man its been so horrible Its literally been like this for four days
01:00 Yeah, I mean but not just a little bit. It's like nasty and it's cold It's like 65 degrees and you guys have amazing weather right? Well we had until today looks well probably be a bright clear up But did we woke up in this foggy right now yeah which is unusual at this time of year You know our weather has been outstanding the entire week It's uh, it must be the global warming. I don't know something's really... Yeah that what it is We have had enormous sun flare activity recently Have you been following that? Uh, I think that was predicted Yeah, but it but like the biggest in you know like nine months or something big flares And if it had happened only three degrees to closer to earth or whatever we'd have a geomagnetic storm and NASA I know It was interfering with my dish network satellite see. I thought I was gonna ask you about that because I think yeah If it's only three degrees then you know maybe there might be something going on so you have noticed it oh? Yeah hmm interesting
02:02 I think a lot of people, it's only short term little bursts but there was this situation. I think it was yesterday where literally got error message that I've never seen before from the Dish Network Like pay your bill Well I've seen that before No I thought you still had on a freebie for like 18 years or something But the... well because I'm testing and I'm... Yes you're reviewing it. So anyway, so I got this error message that said just said you lost we do there's no set whatever was up there is not there anymore. It was looking at it go oh my god they blow the satellite call Adam quick the satellite has gone
02:52 And then it came back. And then I was breaking up a lot, you know it's like a bad antenna kind of thing but its okay now. I remember in 1995 or 96 we had one of those huge sun flares and this is back in the day when people used pagers. Remember those? Pagers? Yeah vaguely! You know I never had one of those I stayed away from it myself, but it was a big thing particularly in New York because you know if you're dealing drugs You gotta have a pager. But yeah everyone basically had one and these were the days of the first Motorola or what they called this the micro tack or whatever remember those first flip phones
03:37 They weren't digital. Star tech, that's right they weren't digital but they worked on you know just analog and the good old days cellular communication with a police scanner you could listen to lots of fun stuff. You could also hear the other person at the other end exactly exactly And we had one of those big flares and everything went out. Pagers went out, and we did have some satellite television at the time that also went out... That was like three days this stuff was knocked offline! At least that's what we were told. At the time I wasn't fully awakened or investigating what people were just telling me but i think it was a pure solar flare pager outage or satellite outage
