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Radar Field Guide: WTP - Holyrood

GENERAL
Hill top radar.
ID: WTP Name: HOLYROOD Type: 98R Lat: 47.32661 Lng: -53.12644 GroundHt: 300 HornHt: 23 BeamWidth: 1.1 Comment: "NRP"

TOPOGRAPHY

BLOCKAGE

Caution: the hill causing blockage to the south does not seem to be well represented by the DEM.

Major: 175-195 deg (due to a hill to south)
Minor Sectors:
Minor Isolated (tower/trees/etc): 6 comm towers nearby, with five worst at approximately 25, 51, 309, 311, and 338 deg

There are four tall communication towers nearby:
170m at 51 deg,
200m at 308 deg,
80m at 312 deg,
and 210m at 339 deg.
There is a shorter comm tower at 235m at 26 deg. There is some sort of tower at 110m at 133 deg, but I can't tell what. (These range and direction estimates are from GoogleEarth imagery. Directions above estimated from data.)

There is a power corridor to the south with 3 lines of towers. Closest towers are at 120m at 120 deg, 152m at 181 deg and 142m at 211 deg. These are not very tall power towers and are on slightly lower ground (probably below level of radar tower floor)

A 24 hour accumulation images illustrating the blockage pattern. It also shows some sea clutter to the north.


SEA/LAKE CLUTTER

In bay to north, starting at about 10km, and narrow sector to SE, around 125 deg starting at 40km. Clutter sometimes reflects ice conditions.
Distance to horizon from an on-line calculator = 63 km (http://www.ringbell.co.uk/info/hdist.htm, apparently geometric with no refraction, so add approx 10% at radar wavelength.)


WIND TURBINES

Fermeuse at 40km at 164 deg.


ROADS/HYDRO/etc

The Transcanada Highway can be seen in Doppler data about 5-7km to ENE.
There is a place west of St Johns where moving targets appear to be traffic on TransCanada going over a hill (approx 33km at 40 deg)

Map in polar coordinates
Map to 110 km

Radar echo stats from non-precipitation days

Map to 250 km

RANGE TO TOPOGRAPHY

MISCELLANEOUS

A power corridor passes by within a few hundred metres to the south.