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Fall Solar Outage Chart

The fall solar outage season will begin September 28 and last through October 15. A solar or sun transit outage is an electromagnetic phenomenon wherein a station downlink is temporarily unable to receive a satellite signal due to interference from the sun as it passes behind the satellite. Solar outages occur on a predictable schedule and affect downlinks in the U.S. for about five consecutive days, for as much as six minutes a day, twice each year. Click here for the rules that apply to all solar outages.

We encourage stations and producers to take the following steps in preparation for solar outages in your region:

• Producers: Program producers of episodes scheduled to transmit during the outage season are encouraged to make sure their content is loaded on a timely basis. Posting evergreen episodes of live programs will give stations programming options during the outages in their regions.
  
• Stations: Stations should consider operational requirements during the predicted outage duration for their area and download content as provided by program producers.
  

Location	Outage Time (EDT)
Alaska (Anchorage)	October 12–14, 2:09 p.m.
Alaska (Barrow)	October 13–15, 2:13 p.m.
Alaska (Fairbanks)	October 12–15, 2:11 p.m.
Alaska (Southern)	October 10–14, 2:10 p.m.
Alabama	October 4–8, 2:31 p.m.
Arkansas	October 5–9, 2:28 p.m.
Arizona	October 5–8, 2:16 p.m.
California (Northern)	October 7–10, 2:12 p.m.
California (San Francisco)	October 6–10, 2:12 p.m.
California (Los Angeles)	October 5–8, 2:13 p.m.
Colorado	October 7–10, 2:21 p.m.
Connecticut	October 7–11, 2:36 p.m.
District of Columbia	October 6–10, 2:35 p.m.
Florida (Miami)	October 2–5, 2:36 p.m.
Florida (Tallahassee)	October 4–7, 2:33 p.m.
Georgia	October 5–8, 2:33 p.m.
Hawaii	Sep 30–Oct 2, 1:56 p.m.
Iowa	October 7–11, 2:26 p.m.
Idaho	October 8–11, 2:15 p.m.
Illinois (Chicago)	October 7–11, 2:29 p.m.
Illinois (Springfield)	October 7–10, 2:29 p.m.
Indiana	October 7–10, 2:30 p.m.
Kansas	October 6–10, 2:24 p.m.
Kentucky	October 6–10, 2:32 p.m.
Louisiana	October 4–7, 2:29 p.m.
Massachusetts	October 7–11, 2:36 p.m.
Maryland	October 6–10, 2:35 p.m.
Maine	October 8–12, 2:37 p.m.
Michigan	October 8–11, 2:31 p.m.
Minnesota (St. Paul)	October 8–11, 2:26 p.m.
Missouri	October 7–10, 2:26 p.m.
Mississippi	October 5–8, 2:30 p.m.
Montana	October 9–12, 2:19 p.m.
North Carolina	October 5–9, 2:34 p.m.
North Dakota	October 9–13, 2:22 p.m.
Nebraska	October 7–11, 2:24 p.m.
New Hampshire	October 8–11, 2:36 p.m.
New Jersey	October 7–10, 2:36 p.m.
New Mexico	October 5–9, 2:20 p.m.
Nevada	October 7–10, 2:14 p.m.
New York	October 7–10, 2:36 p.m.
Ohio	October 6–10, 2:31 p.m.
Oklahoma	October 5–9, 2:25 p.m.
Oregon	October 8–11, 2:13 p.m.
Pennsylvania	October 7–11, 2:34 p.m.
Puerto Rico	September 28–October 1, 2:46 p.m.
South Carolina	October 5–8, 2:34 p.m.
South Dakota	October 8–12, 2:22 p.m.
Tennessee	October 6–9, 2:31 p.m.
Texas (Austin)	October 3–7, 2:25 p.m.
Texas (San Antonio)	October 3–7, 2:24 p.m.
Texas (Amarillo)	October 5–9, 2:23 p.m.
Utah	October 6–10, 2:17 p.m.
Virginia	October 6–9, 2:35 p.m.
Vermont	October 8–11, 2:36 p.m.
Washington	October 9–12, 2:13 p.m.
Wisconsin	October 8–11, 2:28 p.m.
West Virginia	October 6–10, 2:20 p.m.
Wyoming	October 8–11, 2:19 p.m.