In most areas of the country no. The reason being that the mechanical radar units take at least 5 minutes to complete a sweep. I attended a skywarn meeting this winter and NOAA/NWS will be upgrading to phased Radar antenna arrays with electronic sweep actions thus eliminating the mechanical delay and also giving them the ability to quickly look at problem areas when needed. The resolution per pixel will also increase to 1/4 square kilometer, now the pixels are 1 square km. The problem with the new resolution is the size of the image files. Most NWS offices don't have enough bandwidth to serve the public with a file size increase of 16 times what they currently dish out.
Thank You, Brian N2KGC -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of Jason KG4WSV Sent: Sunday, April 19, 2009 7:53 PM To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion Subject: [Xastir] faster radar image updates? Looks like the RIDGE radar images only update every 5 minutes or so. Is there a source for more frequently updated radar imagery that can be had in an xastir friendly format? -Jason kg4wsv _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
