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From: Murray.pa@XEROX.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: shadowing GEO/Earth signals
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Date: Thu, 19-Dec-85 20:01:12 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 19 20:01:12 1985
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We have a box that gets the time from a satellite. The fine print in the
documenation mentions that it will fade out for a few minutes each
midnight during a week or two each spring and fall. The problem is that
the satellite is solar powered, and that's when it's in the Earth's
shadow.