Radar

[Hankal]

Weather radar.
Which weather radar are you using for preflight?
NOAA, AOPA, local news facility?
Or any others?
I am sure there are many of them.
Hank

[Bob Gardner]

Dunno about Florida, but up here all the sources you note come from one
place: the Doppler radar belonging to the National Weather Service. Do
"local news services" actually buy and operate their own radars?

Bob Gardner

"Hankal" > wrote in message
...
> Weather radar.
> Which weather radar are you using for preflight?
> NOAA, AOPA, local news facility?
> Or any others?
> I am sure there are many of them.
> Hank

[Dan Luke]

"Hankal" wrote:
> Which weather radar are you using for preflight?
> NOAA, AOPA, local news facility?
> Or any others?
> I am sure there are many of them.

I use Intellicast, http://www.intellicast.com ,which in turn uses
NEXRAD, which is a composite made from NWS radar sites. There are many
other sources of NEXRAD.
--
Dan
C172RG at BFM

[Stan Gosnell]

(Hankal) wrote in
:

> Weather radar.
> Which weather radar are you using for preflight?
> NOAA, AOPA, local news facility?
> Or any others?
> I am sure there are many of them.
> Hank

Meteorlogix (formerly DTN).

--
Regards,

Stan

[Tom S.]

"Bob Gardner" > wrote in message
et...
> Dunno about Florida, but up here all the sources you note come from one
> place: the Doppler radar belonging to the National Weather Service. Do
> "local news services" actually buy and operate their own radars?
>
No, they have their own analysis equipment and purchase the raw data, but
the interpretation is their own computers.

[Bob Gardner]

Guess if I lived in tornado country I would go the extra mile myself. As I
recall, the NWS guys from Seattle went down to OK to train on the Doppler
while it was under construction up here.

Bob

"Tom Pappano" > wrote in message
...
> Bob Gardner wrote:
> > Dunno about Florida, but up here all the sources you note come from one
> > place: the Doppler radar belonging to the National Weather Service. Do
> > "local news services" actually buy and operate their own radars?
> >
> > Bob Gardner
> >
> > "Hankal" > wrote in message
> > ...
> >
> >>Weather radar.
> >>Which weather radar are you using for preflight?
> >>NOAA, AOPA, local news facility?
> >>Or any others?
> >>I am sure there are many of them.
> >>Hank
> >
> >
> >
>
> Hi Bob,
>
> Here in Tulsa, in "Tornado Alley", all three major tv stations have
> their own doppler. One station even has two, spaced several miles
> apart, to eliminate any blind spots directly over their antenna sites.
> With the lethal effects of tornadoes, especially in recent years, no one
> around here depends on just NEXRAD.
>
> A "wide area radar network" has been implemented by area stations
> merging data from private radars, so that storm activity can be
> precisely display over most of the state. During severe weather,
> the positions of the various storm artifacts are displayed
> and called out to the public minute by minute down to the "street
> level", even in many of the smallest communities.
>
> It's not unsual for an entire night of "prime time" to be completely
> prempted by the weather guys, on into the wee hours, when the +TS
> moves through.
>
> Tom Pappano, PP-ASEL-IA
>

[Ross Richardson]

Our local small market town in North Texas has their own Doppler radar
as do several TV stations.

Bob Gardner wrote:
>
> Dunno about Florida, but up here all the sources you note come from one
> place: the Doppler radar belonging to the National Weather Service. Do
> "local news services" actually buy and operate their own radars?
>
> Bob Gardner
>
> "Hankal" > wrote in message
> ...
> > Weather radar.
> > Which weather radar are you using for preflight?
> > NOAA, AOPA, local news facility?
> > Or any others?
> > I am sure there are many of them.
> > Hank

[John R. Copeland]

What? Just a single Doppler Radar?
Everywhere else, we have Dual Doppler Radar! :-)
---JRC---

"Sandy Mustard" > wrote in message =
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> Well, Channel 9 here in Cincinnati, OH just put up its own Doppler
> radar. www.wcpo.com And people thought everything happens ten years
> later in Cincy. :-)
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> Sandy Mustard
>=20

[Newps]

Almost all cities of a million or more will have TV stations that have
their own radar. In the MSP area there are three TV stations that have
their own weather radar.

Tom S. wrote:
> "Sandy Mustard" > wrote in message
> ...
>
>>Well, Channel 9 here in Cincinnati, OH just put up its own Doppler
>>radar. www.wcpo.com And people thought everything happens ten years
>>later in Cincy. :-)
>
>
> Did they build they own, or do they just get a feed from the NWS or someone
> else?
>
> Tom

[Tom S.]

"Andrew Gideon" > wrote in message
...
> Newps wrote:
>
> > Almost all cities of a million or more will have TV stations that have
> > their own radar. In the MSP area there are three TV stations that have
> > their own weather radar.
>
> Why? What's the advantage of their own as opposed to using the NWS's?
>
Ego and bragging rights?

[Tom S.]

"Stan Gosnell" > wrote in message
...
>
> We're talking TV here. Not reality. It's important to have a different
> look. If your radar picture looks the same as the other station's, what
> advantage can you have? You have to look different, sexier, etc. TV is
> about ratings, not content. Fox proves that for all time.

If that were true, then CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC and all the rest would not
have held to the same mould for the past 40 years.

[Stan Gosnell]

"Tom S." > wrote in
:

>
> "Stan Gosnell" > wrote in message
> ...
>>
>> We're talking TV here. Not reality. It's important to have a
>> different look. If your radar picture looks the same as the other
>> station's, what advantage can you have? You have to look different,
>> sexier, etc. TV is about ratings, not content. Fox proves that for
>> all time.
>
> If that were true, then CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC and all the rest
> would not have held to the same mould for the past 40 years.

CNN and MSNBC haven't been around for 40 years, or even close. And they're
all trying for different looks. But local stations are where the
competition really is, and that's what the discussion is about, not
networks or cable channels.

--
Regards,

Stan

[Sandy Mustard]

They built it themselves. It located at I69, Batavia Clermont Co.
Airport, Home of Sporty's. It's not just Doppler, it's Ultimate
Doppler. More powerful and faster and with ViPER 3-D processing.

Sandy Mustard

"Tom S." wrote:
>
> "Sandy Mustard" > wrote in message
> ...
> >
> > Well, Channel 9 here in Cincinnati, OH just put up its own Doppler
> > radar. www.wcpo.com And people thought everything happens ten years
> > later in Cincy. :-)
>
> Did they build they own, or do they just get a feed from the NWS or someone
> else?
>
> Tom
> --
> "All right, but apart from the sanitation,
> medicine, education, wine, public order,
> irrigation, roads, the fresh water system
> and public health, what have the
> Romans ever done for us?"