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Title: boston radar out
Post by: jamall02864 on October 10, 2005, 05:10:26 PM

boston radar out im still working on the detalils herd some one say that on the raido  its 5:11est on 8/10 here now and noones benn talking on the raidos for at least a houer now

Title: boston radar out
Post by: dave on October 10, 2005, 05:14:36 PM

Saw messages today about a ground stop due to the ASR-9 (surveillance radar, used for local ops) radar being out at the airport.

-dave

Title: boston radar out
Post by: jamall02864 on October 10, 2005, 05:21:04 PM

ok im looking throught the arcives for anything now


all goes dead on tower in the 1600 block about 16 min. in to it it goes to static

get goes to that static agian on app/dep at 1600 block   at 14 min in to it

same for ground

Title: boston radar out
Post by: dave on October 10, 2005, 05:33:44 PM

Yeah looks like something is wrong there with the radios...will investigate.

Dave

Title: boston radar out
Post by: jamall02864 on October 10, 2005, 05:40:12 PM

dave on cbs 4  they have a shourt atrtical on it

http://cbs4boston.com/topstories/local_story_283121512.html

http://www1.whdh.com/news/articles/local/BOS6973/ there too they got a vid to :)        as for the raidos idk that may be the sccanner

Title: boston radar out
Post by: jamall02864 on October 10, 2005, 07:15:25 PM

feeds back up in patches

Title: boston radar out
Post by: Sirclown82 on October 11, 2005, 12:24:28 AM

Wow that could have turned out to be bad, well let me say worse than it did.

Title: boston radar out
Post by: dave on October 11, 2005, 09:33:48 AM

The radar outage at Boston continues...they're running off the Center (ZBW) radar and radar separation has been increased from 3 miles to 5 miles.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/10/11/faulty_radar_serving_logan_leaves_thousands_stranded/

Dave

Title: BOS Radar
Post by: davolijj on October 11, 2005, 11:10:57 AM

Anyone know what Radar Automation system they run at BOS TRACon?

Title: boston radar out
Post by: PHL Approach on October 11, 2005, 11:32:08 AM

Dave, it was built in 2001, right? I don't know when this was introduced but I would say ASR-11 since it is a fairly new facility. ASR-11 with STARS. Though I'm sure they told you it was ASR-9 when you visited, right Dave?

Title: boston radar out
Post by: dave on October 11, 2005, 11:35:58 AM

Quote from: PHL_Approach

Dave, it was built in 2001, right? I don't know when this was introduced but I would say ASR-11 since it is a fairly new facility. ASR-11 with STARS. Though I'm sure they told you it was ASR-9 when you visited, right Dave?

No, the FAA (in its automated status messages) is calling it ASR-9 for some reason, even though the news keeps referring to approach radar.  Regardless, the radar is out.  :-)

Title: boston radar out
Post by: dave on October 11, 2005, 12:15:19 PM

Now the messages just say radar:

Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 16:10:35 GMT                                      
From: AIS-AUTOMAIL@fly.faa.gov                                          
To: undisclosed-recipients:  ;                                          
Subject: Aviation Information System                                    
                                                                         
Ground Delay Program to [ BOS ] due to [ EQUIPMENT/RADAR OTS ]          
  Avg Delay arriving traffic: 4 hours and 42 minutes  Max Delay: 12 hours
and 38 minutes.

Title: FYI
Post by: Robin Rebhan on October 11, 2005, 03:57:39 PM

FYI - Official FAA Website called it at the time a "weather delay".  :oops:

Robin Rebhan
Albany, NY

Title: boston radar out
Post by: digger on October 11, 2005, 05:42:13 PM

Quote

with STARS.

I have heard that other facilities with STARS have also had issues with "false targets"...

Title: boston radar out
Post by: dave on October 12, 2005, 08:37:08 PM

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/5087686/detail.html

Problem fixed for now.