I guess the staff has not seen too many sat photos !

The time was wrong, and there are many photos from space
sats, apollo or shuttle archives that show the usa during power outages
that are genuine and the states blacked out are visible from space.

Would have made a good april fool issue

Derek wrote:

The latest issue of QST has the fake blackout photo on page 80.

See e.g. http://urbanlegends.about.com/librar...kout_photo.htm

Nice photo though!

Derek aa5bt