{"id":58148,"date":"2024-03-06T21:59:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T21:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=58148"},"modified":"2024-04-04T03:29:26","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T03:29:26","slug":"radio-frequency-interference-affecting-goes-16-goes-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/58148","title":{"rendered":"Radio Frequency Interference affecting GOES-16\/GOES-18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 1290px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2024\/03\/240301_240306_goes16_infrared_RFI_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2024\/03\/G16_RFI_FD_B13_03MAR2024_2024063_170021_GOES-16_0001PANEL_FRAME00002.GIF\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 &#8220;Clean&#8221; Infrared Window images, from 1650-1730 UTC on 01-06 March [click to play animated GIF | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2024\/03\/240301_240306_goes16_infrared_RFI_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>Every Spring and Fall Equinox season, a brief period of solar Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) occurs whenever the Sun passes into the beam of a GOES ground station receiving antenna (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ospo.noaa.gov\/data\/messages\/2023\/03\/MSG_20230301_1332.html\"><strong>2023 NOAA ESPC Notification<\/strong><\/a>). This RFI can cause a temporary degradation or even a complete loss of data reception. The exact time of RFI will vary somewhat on a given day, depending on where the GOES receiving antenna is located.<\/p>\n<p>During the Spring of 2024, Full Disk images showed that the time of maximum RFI signal loss was 1700 UTC on 01-05 March for GOES-16 <em>(GOES-East)<\/em> <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em>, and 2140 UTC on 02-05 March for GOES-18 (GOES-West) <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1290px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2024\/03\/240302_240306_goes18_infrared_RFI_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2024\/03\/G18_RFI_FD_B13_03MAR2024_2024063_214022_GOES-18_0001PANEL_FRAME00002.GIF\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-18 &#8220;Clean&#8221; Infrared Window images, from 2130-2150 UTC on 02-06 March [click to play animated GIF | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2024\/03\/240302_240306_goes18_infrared_RFI_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every Spring and Fall Equinox season, a brief period of solar Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) occurs whenever the Sun passes into the beam of a GOES ground station receiving antenna (2023 NOAA ESPC Notification). This RFI can cause a temporary degradation or even a complete loss of data reception. The exact time of RFI will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":58154,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,74,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-calibration","category-goes-16","category-goes-18"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58148"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58172,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58148\/revisions\/58172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}