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Rain. In San Diego. Enough to cause drop outs and re-acqs at SDO.
Does have to be pretty bad to impact gateway communications. Those folks deal with feast or famine when it comes to rain.
They're currently under flood warnings, which means it's pretty bad.
It's dry, but unlike like Southern Texas where a little squall causes mass drownings.
And just because I don't want to start a new thread:
I've talked about how strange IoT has gotten in the past and how things that really shouldn't be connected to the internet, just because it would be cool to do it. Without being too specific, have a look at the most recent Wired article. Just know that it's specially R-rated for Valentine's Day.
MarkJFine wrote:They're currently under flood warnings, which means it's pretty bad.
It's dry, but unlike like Southern Texas where a little squall causes mass drownings.
I've often wondered if Hughes chooses their gateway locations for their clear weather?
If so, is there one in El Paso, Texas? I was stationed there between 1967 and 1969. It almost never rains. but when it does the whole place floods. Very interesting to drive a deuce and a half ( army slang for a two and half ton truck) down one of those flooded desert roads, where there's no fence posts, telephone poles, or anything else to show you where the pavement might be. You sort of slowly feel your way along.
Funny you say that, because I was thinking about Kelly AFB (now Annex due to BRAC) in San Antonio when I wrote that.
You want hot and dry, give the Nellis AFB flightline a try in the middle of summer......OMG!
gaines_wright wrote:
MarkJFine wrote:They're currently under flood warnings, which means it's pretty bad.
It's dry, but unlike like Southern Texas where a little squall causes mass drownings.
I've often wondered if Hughes chooses their gateway locations for their clear weather?
If so, is there one in El Paso, Texas?
Yep, but only for the ES17 satellite, not the ES19, so primarily Gen4 customers.
They they may base them on the weather they get, though there are a few in places that can get heavy precipitation. There's one in Seattle.
While weather has something to do with it, you'll notice they're basically laid out in a matrix for J2.
I used to have GoogleMap image with pins for the locations, which would really show that, but can't find it.
