[Xastir] Geo files for US RIdge Radar maps from ...

[Rick Green]

On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Kevin Paetzold wrote:

> On 03/31/2010 12:00 PM, xastir-request at lists.xastir.org wrote:
> "Geo files for US RIdge Radar maps from K1KWP 
> http://www.townisp.com/~k1kwp/NWS_Ridge_geos.tar.gz"
>
> Glad to know that some people are using those .geos I produced.

I just downloaded the collection, and have begun taking a look at them.

In the regional/ directory, there's one called centgrtlakes_radaronly.geo. 
I loaded that one up, and it appears that it is inacurate as to the 
positions of the individual radars.  This evening, the atmospheric 
conditions are such that there is a 'blob' of ground scatter with a small 
clear donut hole at the location of each radar.  The DTX radar is 
appearing to be somewhere over Lansing, when it is actually located at 
White Lake, MI., about 56 miles to the east.  Station K8DTX is co-located 
at the NWS WHite lake facility, and so its symbol should show in the 'eye' 
of the ground scatter blob from that site.

-- 
Rick Green, N8BJX

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