Twice a year, you may experience some degree of television interference due to “sun outages.” Such outages are caused by a phenomenon called a “solar satellite interference.” These brief outages occur when the sun passes directly behind satellites transmitting cable signals. When the sun is aligned with a satellite, solar radiation, an energy the sun is emitting, interferes with the satellite’s signal and thus causes a brief signal outage.
Sun outages occur every year, in Fall and Spring, and last approximately about a week each time. This Fall, sun outages are expected during the period of October 4 through October 12, 2016.
During the sun outage, you may experience a pixelated picture, picture freezes, or audio distortions for a brief period of time.
The sun outage happens only during the day between 11am and 5:30pm (no sun, no interference) and is brief, lasting for a few minutes—from 5 minutes, up to 45 minutes.
RCN apologizes for any inconvenience a sun outage may cause. However, solar satellite interference is out of our control. Please be patient and everything will get back to normal. If you have question about sun outages, please contact RCN.
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Got pets? A reader asked us to let you know about a new locally owned pet supply store, which will be holding its Grand Opening this Saturday."Ox and Oona is a small store focusing largely on dogs; they carry a limited range of highly rated dog food, and have a small selection for cats (but the nice lady at the shop assured me they are happy to do special orders). A great addition to Uptown!"Ox & Oona is located at 4407 North Hazel, between Food Town and TAE Cleaners. It's closed Mondays and Tuesdays; on weekdays the hours are 10:30am… [...]
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