Who's heating up the ionosphere?

Here's the trick:

• Go to the National Weather Service / Radar page:

https://radar.weather.gov/?

• Click on the area of interest. A pin will appear.

• Under the location information, select the 3 dot menu.

– Click on National Radar

– Select Raw Composite Base Reflectivity

– Select the Time Series Arrow at the bottom

– Close this dialog

You can navigate by mouse from here.

Why Raw Composite Base Reflectivity? Because the Raw leaves all the returns in the product including the little droplets and airborne particles. The Composite radar is the strongest returns among all the elevations scanned, not just the lowest 0.5 degrees above the horizon. Bases are of interest to ground based because that's where the rain is encountered. But Composite gives the strongest echoes up to and beyond the troposphere and stratosphere. This is of interest to meteorologists, pilots, and atmospheric researchers.

Once you've identified a hot spot you can zoom into the antenna and geographically isolate it. Then using a map program with satellite views you can identify the exact transmitter.

The one here is in Sasser, GA at

The registration information can be found at the FCC or here:

http://www.city-data.com/towers/cell-Sasser-Georgia.html

Many towers display this effect around sunrise, but some are FAR more pronounced on a day-to-day basis, much more so than even very high powered military transmitters in the area.

Makes you wonder.

Note the 1MW solar array right next to this guy. Weather radars are only 3/4 of MW.