March 8 turns off TV ?! – TVNZ

TASS report dated March 5, 5 hours and 59 minutes, “International Women’s Day at the Russian viewers and listeners may skip signal television and radio programs. This will happen because there is a period of spring interference – a phenomenon that when the Sun, the satellite communication and receiving antenna terrestrial repeaters are arranged in a line “.

What kind of interference is that? In the sun it really is capable of leaving people without radio and television?

– Spring – explains Sergei Yazev, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Director of the Astronomical Observatory of Irkutsk State University. – The sun rises over the horizon and into the line of the celestial equator – the projection of Earth’s equator onto the celestial sphere. On the same line – in geostationary orbit – and there are communication satellites. And indeed obtained the following picture: the satellite is directly between the sun and the ground receiving antenna. A light – is a powerful source of electromagnetic waves. It is “broadcasting” in all ranges, including frequencies, which employ radio and television. Therefore, the sun may cause harmful interference to broadcasting. But it is unlikely that it is completely drown out the broadcast. This is possible only during solar flares. And they are not expected.

In the Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Russian Television and Radio Broadcasting Network” (RTRS), which is referred to news agencies, “Komsomolskaya Pravda” reported that nothing supernatural is not expected. Yes, there is a solar interference – already started on February 20, will last until March 17. But it happens every year in spring and autumn. And accompanied, as a rule, minor interference. What RTRS considers it necessary to warn. Just in case. Here and now a notification appeared on the site on March 2, RTRS. There you can find some sort of interference graph for different regions of Russia. Because these areas are served by different satellites and different receiving antennas, from which the offensive interference for them too different. Somewhere falls and 8 March.

RTRS interference publishes charts every year. But only in that they fell so much attention – quite frankly, scared. In RTRS see the reason for that was overly exaggerated colors around an ordinary phenomenon.

On the question of whether the interference with TV with satellite channels, in the RTRS Answer: Yes, would be as plates receiving antennas also directed on geostationary satellites. When an interruption is hard to say – different satellites, the antenna arrangement is different. But in any case, the interference will last only a few minutes – until the sun, moon and the antenna will be on one line.

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– Rumors about disabling on TV a few hours are greatly exaggerated – said “KP” a spokesman for the Russian Television and Radio Broadcasting Network Igor Stepanov. – We have the ability to put a signal on a different path – through alternative satellites or cables. Solar interference – which they say – happens twice a year. Just before because of her TV does not stop. In the worst case, the interference image will be visible on the screen no longer than one minute.