![]() Right now, I chase with a laptop that includes GR3 because I need all of its features, but I also have a dash mounted tablet running RadarScope so I have access to the higher resolution radar. RadarScope has done this, so it is possible technically. WDT does this for their feed to RadarScope, so it is possible technically. So, I am asking Mike at Gibson Ridge to give GR3 the ability to do what RadarScope does (continue to be a Level 3 display program but add support for the lowest tilts of Level 2 data for reflectivity and velocity), and Allisonhouse to do what WDT has done for its feed and add that same stripped down Level 2 data. By doing this instead of sending the entire Level 2 data package for each scan, they keep the file sizes smaller so it is usable in the field while chasing. It appears to me that WDT is stripping the lowest 4 scans out of the Level 2 data, and providing ONLY that along with the standard Level 3 data. I am asking Gibson Ridge and Allisonhouse to work together to provide a solution like what RadarScope and WDT data currently provide. Not a problem as long as I'm sitting in a metro area, but you guys all know it won't work in the rural areas. However, that solution would require me to download the full level 2 feed while chasing over cellular for all the updates. I have no problem paying the $250 for GR2a, plus pay for the level 2 feed from Allisonhouse. If Allisonhouse won't/can't do it, is WDT interested in selling us a data feed for Gibson Ridge/GR3? Is WDT paying the huge yearly fee and getting the special high resolution Level 3 products? OR, are they using the Level 2 data and simply stripping out the 4 lowest scans for velocity and reflectivity and adding that to the typical Level 3 feed? Or are they doing it some other way?Ĭan Allisonhouse do whatever WDT is doing, and give us these same high resolution products (only the 4 lowest tilts for super res velocity, and 4 lowest tilts for super res reflectivity). If I switch it to my Allisonhouse feed, I lose them. If I use WDT for the data feed on RadarScope, I get high resolution reflectivity and velocity products. ![]() This gives the user the ability to have that data on a limited bandwidth connection. But somehow, RadarScope and WDT have figured out how to get only 4 tilts of high res Reflectivity and Velocity to their customers, along with the basic Level 3 data. I fully understand, I do not want to simply buy GR2A because while chasing I do not want to try and support a FULL Level 2 data feed on cellular during chaser convergence. The point of this post is to figure out why RadarScope on the free WDT feed gets high resolution reflectivity and velocity products added to the regular Level 3 data feed, but GR3 with an Allisonhouse subscription can not.
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