Solar radio burst event (6 April 2001) and noise in wireless communications systems
- Resource Type
- Periodical
- Authors
- Lanzerotti, Louis J.; Gary, Dale E.; Thomson, David J.; Maclennan, Carol G.
- Source
- Bell Labs Technical Journal Bell Labs Tech. J. Bell Labs Technical Journal. 7(1):159-163 2002
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
- Language
- ISSN
- 1089-7089
1538-7305
The solar radio burst event of 6 April 2001 had maximum amplitudes > 10 −18 W/(m 2 Hz) (equivalent to > 10,000 solar flux units) at 1.2 GHz. Such noise levels could readily have caused interference in any cell site antenna that might have been viewing in the direction of the sun at the time of the event.