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--- Quote from: DaleReid on July 19, 2020, 08:10:41 PM ---But think of ground clutter with evening temperature changes and try to filter that out with pure analog stuff.

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Back in my ASR-5 days, during a certain time of year, we'd get huge splotches on the display as the sun was rising. MTI and other "tools" would also be use to to differentiate between a true radar paint and not was common. The ASR-5 also only had two levels of wx display, light and not so light. If it got bad enough, we'd switch from linear to circular polarization to help cut the "junk", which was actually precip. In 1998 we installed an digital ASR-9, no sweep perse, but the workforce complained enough that a "virtual" sweep was employed to keep us happy. We hate change.

Edited three times because it's been a long time ago to remember right. #-o

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