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WSR-57

Description of the radar set, tactical-technical characteristics

Figure 1: WSR-57

Figure 1: WSR-57

Specifications
frequency: 2 900 MHz
(S-Band)
pulse repetition time (PRT):
pulse repetition frequency (PRF): 164 or 545 Hz
pulsewidth (τ): 0.5 or 4 µs
receive time:
dead time:
peak power: 410 kW
average power:
instrumented range: 5 … 125 NM
(≙ 9 … 230 km)
range resolution:
accuracy:
beamwidth:
hits per scan:
antenna rotation:
MTBCF:
MTTR:

WSR-57

The WSR-57 (Abbr. of Weather Surveillance Radar 1957) was the radar chosen for the first operational weather radar network of the National Weather Service (a local forecast office). It was a classic non-coherent radar and could measure reflectivities only. Its military designator was AN/FPS-41, because the Navy ordered sets of this radar. The WSR-57 was designed in 1957, and operated at S-Band or 10-cm wavelength, chosen to minimize the undesirable effects of signal attenuation by rainfall experienced on the AN/CPS-9 3-cm wavelength radar. The weather warning network was implemented in 1959 with the installation of 31 WSR-57s. By the mid-1960's there were 45 radars around the U.S. in each a distance of around 200 miles.

The first WSR-57 was installed at the Miami hurricane forecast center in 1959. The last WSR-57 radar was decommissioned in Charleston on December 2. 1996.

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Picture gallery of WSR-57
Galerie du radar WSR-57
Galerie de imagini de WSR-57
WSR-57 Radarın resimleri

Figure 2: WSR-57 console

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