Shade your face. If you're getting tired of being in the sun too long, you're experiencing sunfade. Satellite sunfade happens twice a year, in spring and fall, when cable companies have brief outages. Wikipedia calls it a sun outage, sun transit or sunfade. At these times, it describes, the apparent path of the sun across the sky takes it directly behind the line of sight between an earth station and a satellite. "The sun radiates across the entire spectrum, including microwave frequencies used to communicate with satellites, so the sun swamps the signal from the satellite." Clothing sunfade, or light fade, as is described in author Norman Oehlke's Complete Spotting Guide & More, published by American Drycleaner and available at https://americandrycleaner.com. is easily identifiable. "It's only on one side of the fabric, and can only happen where light - natural or artificial - has altered color."
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