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Weird pattern on Foreflight radar

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Martin, I noticed on your picture... the Canadian weather is not shown... we are really in the soup now here. Foreflight does show it.

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My pictures were taken from Garmin Pilot. I think I need to pay to have Canadian information show up. The phenomenon that we are seeing is intend coming just south of Dover. I believe Dover's regional radar is on the actual base itself. Where it is showing as the origin is right where I was this past weekend -- KGED!!

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My pictures were taken from Garmin Pilot. I think I need to pay to have Canadian information show up. The phenomenon that we are seeing is intend coming just south of Dover. I believe Dover's regional radar is on the actual base itself. Where it is showing as the origin is right where I was this past weekend -- KGED!!
Actually I was wrong. I can't get Canadian weather on Garmin Pilot. I unloaded my ForeFlight to make room for a trial version of WingX or else I would see what that shows.
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It looks like the radar has the antenna angle very low, it is seeing the ground. I have had the opportunity to operate one of the weather service radars. They are normally set on automatic, but sometime the operator will run it manually, or it could be down for maintenance and the tech forgot to take it offline. Either way the radar got into the national database when it shouldn't have.

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