PSX radar tests

[farrokh747]

jimi hendrix acft wxr display...?

[Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers]

Specific real-world effect limited to a particular spot on the planet, for all of you to find out  :mrgreen:

[Elie]

Black Hills?

[masselli]

He's heading towards the Freak Mountains in Wyoming and picking up an Aurora Borealis on radar.   :lol:

[Shiv Mathur]

Yes, Wyoming seems to be right (from KCPR and DDY) ... can you actually
pick up the Northern Lights from there ?

[John Golin]

Actually, as masselli intimated, Is it ground clutter from the mountain peaks? The aircraft is West of Casper and heading SSW with the wx radar tilted down (if I'm reading the ND correctly) ?

[Hardy Heinlin]

Up to 80 NM are ground clutter and clouds. Beyond 80 there are some clouds. The beams are not caused by mountains nor by Aurora Borealis.


O-O

[John Golin]

Hmm... now you've got me ignoring my work and poking around the internet... if we go off air it's all your fault!  

[John Golin]

The only thing I can come up with is interference from some military installations relating to NORAD... OTH radar or some such for early warning systems...

[Holger Wende]

Hello,

Several years back I have seen similar phenomena on analog radar screens while the radar was jammed.

And during "solar calibration" of surveillance radars such radar strobes caused by the sun during sunrise/sunset were (or are still) used to calibrate north. With some adjustments on the receiver gain control the main lobe strobe could be easily identified.
But you would not do "solar calibration" on airborne radars, would you?  :mrgreen:

So my vote: Something evil jams your radar :evil:

Regards, Holger

[Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers]

Evil? Or just more advanced?

[farrokh747]

http://www.letxa.com/anomalyintro.php

and

http://www.letxa.com/anomalyspokes.php

[Phil Bunch]

Evil? Or just more advanced?

Some argue that these things are pretty much the same, in the end.  Never have accepted that claim but it does seem to have some merit considering mankind's difficult history...

[Shiv Mathur]

http://www.letxa.com/anomalyintro.php

and

http://www.letxa.com/anomalyspokes.php

Well, does the man get a cigar or not ?

[farrokh747]

hold on, hold on, we don't know if is is the right one yet... awaiting word form higher authority...

[Shiv Mathur]

Well, the higher authorities are busy either zipping around the world,
or creating a new state-of-the-art 747 simulator.
We'll just have to be patient!

[Hardy Heinlin]

I didn't know that this interference may be caused by NEXRAD, too (aside from Hendrix gigs at midnight).

Actually, I assumed the radar was jammed by a military facility located in a restricted airspace.

Awaiting word from higher authority ...


Cheers,

|-|ardy

[farrokh747]

ummm......    hardy, that's you...  

[jonb]

Greetings to Jon :-)




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Greetings Hardy

Been a while!, about 13 years I think. :shock:
Nice job with the spikes!

Cheers

Jon


|-|ardy

[farrokh747]

ok, starting this one up again...

WXR panel:

1. Are the GAIN rotaries switches? and the TILT control a pot?
2. Or the other way around?
3. none of the above.

I remember one of the two on the conc. shaft was a pot and the other a multi pos rotary switch.... not sure which is which

cheers!

fc