User's Guide

Controlling Your Radar
FasTrac Millennium User’s Guide – May 2003
6.4 Utilizing Multiple Real-Time Radars Via Network
The Network America system augments your real-time Doppler data by linking to multiple
Doppler sites (including your own real-time radar), letting you monitor numerous meteorological
scenarios, including severe weather, more closely.
6.4.1 Using Network America
1. Open NetRad to display the NetRad interface.
2. Select Setup > Main Setup to open the NetRad Setup menu.
3. Click the Add Site button, and select up to twenty-one locations.
4. Upon completion, click OK.
5. Open FasTrac.
6. Select Radar > Multisweep to open the Multisweep menu, displayed to
the right.
7. Select the desired sites by clicking on them or by pressing Select All to
enable all the listed sites.
8. When you have selected the sites you want, click OK.
9. To turn off Network America, go back to the Radar menu and select Stop
Multisweep.
6.4.2 Changing the Width of the Radar Sweep Cursor
1. Open the View Misc panel.
2. Set the Radar Cursor Width parameter to 1 to display the standard width.
Set the parameter to 2 to double the width, and set the value to 0 to remove
the radar sweep.
3. Click Update at the bottom of the panel to make the changes. You can save
the view with the cursor set to the selected width. This will always display
the setting. If you do not save the view, it will revert to the previous setting.
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