Spent a good hour yesterday running in circles trying to figure out why I couldn't get initialization with my R10 despite everything I tried. I was seeing 11 SVs and radio was appeared to be working fine. Only thing I could figure was a near by power line was messing with things even though I've used that location a dozen or more times over the last four years without any issues. Moved the base to a another location and a bada-bing bada-boom, everything's works fine. I suspect peak solar activity coincided with the timing of my issues. Just wondering if anyone else had any problems around the same time. I'll be switching to the TS around that time today just to save myself the grief.
There was a solar storm big enough to be mentioned on the CBS morning news. Naturally the story didn't go into enough detail to say if it corresponds with the time you had trouble.
Monster of a solar flare according to a message from Griner & Schmitz (now Topcon Solutions) in KC, MO.
This plot shows the K and A indices for four different stations for the last week. I find it more useful than the 3-day estimated planetary plots alone, esp. since one of the stations is Boulder, CO. For GPS control projects I also download the data and include it as part of my report.
This3-day estimated planetary K-index plot doesn't indicate that there should have been any problems yesterday.
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/planetary-k-index
The 7-day plots indicate that the storm impacted high latitudes (College station) while the est. planetary plot only showed a modest impact.
Sounds like I'm the only one that had issues, which indicates to me it was the power line giving me grief. Momma always said I was special .... Olympics.
I ran into the pole line issue a few times...just have to be aware of it I guess.
Did you try resetting the satellite tracking? Sometimes the R10s used to just hang up; don't know if they still do or not.
Lee D, post: 445570, member: 7971 wrote: Did you try resetting the satellite tracking? Sometimes the R10s used to just hang up; don't know if they still do or not.
Yes. Rebooted TSC3 couple times as well as that usually seems to do the trick. Not this time.
Things were a tad fuzzy between 11 and noon around here. Which is the same as 9-10 on the left coast.
Well back in the day they always said that solar activity affected you more the farther north you went... maybe there was some truth to that.
Lee D, post: 445596, member: 7971 wrote: Well back in the day they always said that solar activity affected you more the farther north you went... maybe there was some truth to that.
Northern Lights!
