LINKPlanner and TDWR locations

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A customer of mine recently pointed out that their PTP network was close to a location that LINKPlanner had auto-populated with an "X" marked "IAH". They took a closer look and pointed out that this was not Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport, which has an airport code of IAH, but is several miles east of the IAH marked in LINKPlanner. I thought this was an error and alerted the LINKPlanner team. Dave Hensley corrected me and pointed out that these auto-populated sites in LINKPlanner are not airports, but TDWR (Terminal Doppler Weather Radar) locations! LINKPlanner explains this in a way when you click on data sets, a button that appears at the top of the map on the offline tab. The data set currently has one list and that is "FCC Weather Radar Sites", which you can enable or disable. 

Dave also provided me with the following info:

From the LINKPlanner release notes (in the User Guide):

  • Include the FCC database of TDWR (weather radar) stations. A warning will be displayed for links operating at 5.4 GHz within 35 km of a TDWR station; steps must be taken by operators to ensure that they do not interfere with these radars.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_Doppler_Weather_Radar

 I found a list of these sites and their coordinates: http://wilmingtonwx.com/tdwr.txt

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I know this is an old topic, but came up again recently… I couldn’t get that link that Brian posted to work anymore, but found data on the TDWR locations. Here is a table of the 45 TDWR stations that are out there:

index X (long) Y (lat) siteID siteName radarType antennaElevation (m)
1 -76.845 38.695 TADW Andrews Air Force Base TDWR 346
2 -84.262 33.647 TATL Atlanta TDWR 1075
3 -86.662 35.98 TBNA Nashville TDWR 817
4 -70.933 42.158 TBOS Boston TDWR 264
5 -76.63 39.09 TBWI Baltimore/Wash TDWR 297
6 -80.885 35.337 TCLT Charlotte TDWR 871
7 -82.715 40.006 TCMH Columbus, OH TDWR 1148
8 -84.58 38.898 TCVG Covington TDWR 1053
9 -96.968 32.926 TDAL Dallas Love Field TDWR 622
10 -84.123 40.022 TDAY Dayton TDWR 1019
11 -76.962 38.759 TDCA Washington National TDWR 345
12 -104.526 39.728 TDEN Denver TDWR 5701
13 -96.918 33.065 TDFW Dallas/Ft. Worth TDWR 585
14 -83.515 42.111 TDTW Detroit TDWR 772
15 -74.27 40.593 TEWR Newark TDWR 136
16 -80.344 26.143 TFLL Fort Lauderdale TDWR 120
17 -95.242 29.516 THOU Houston Hobby TDWR 117
18 -77.529 39.084 TIAD Dulles TDWR 473
19 -95.567 30.065 TIAH Houston International TDWR 253
20 -97.437 37.507 TICH Witchita TDWR 1351
21 -86.436 39.637 TIDS Indianapolis TDWR 847
22 -73.881 40.589 TJFK New York City TDWR 112
23 -115.007 36.144 TLAS Las Vegas TDWR 2058
24 -82.008 41.29 TLVE Cleveland, OH TDWR 931
25 -94.742 39.498 TMCI Kansas City TDWR 1090
26 -81.326 28.344 TMCO Orlando International TDWR 169
27 -87.73 41.651 TMDW Chicago Midway TDWR 763
28 -89.993 34.896 TMEM Memphis TDWR 483
29 -80.491 25.758 TMIA Miami TDWR 125
30 -88.046 42.819 TMKE Milwaukee TDWR 933
31 -92.933 44.871 TMSP Minneapolis TDWR 1121
32 -90.403 30.022 TMSY New Orleans TDWR 99
33 -97.51 35.276 TOKC Oklahoma City TDWR 1308
34 -87.858 41.797 TORD Chicago O’Hare TDWR 744
35 -80.273 26.688 TPBI West Palm Beach TDWR 133
36 -75.069 39.949 TPHL Philadelphia TDWR 153
37 -112.163 33.421 TPHX Phoenix TDWR 1089
38 -80.486 40.501 TPIT Pittsburgh TDWR 1386
39 -78.697 36.002 TRDU Raleigh Durham TDWR 515
40 -85.61 38.046 TSDF Louisville, KY TDWR 731
41 -66.179 18.474 TSJU San Juan TDWR 157
42 -111.93 40.967 TSLC Salt Lake City TDWR 4295
43 -90.489 38.805 TSTL St. Louis TDWR 647
44 -82.518 27.86 TTPA Tampa Bay TDWR 93
45 -95.827 36.071 TTUL Tulsa TDWR 823