King City Radar

king_mapm.gif (14871 bytes) With the lack of anything to chase I decided to head up to the King City radar site and see if I could get in to take some pictures.

The actual site is just off Jane street about 100ft north of 16th sideroad. In the map to the left the radar site is green and the actual radar is indicated in gray.
king_radar2.jpg (52809 bytes) That's the sign just off Jane street.
king_radar1.jpg (35352 bytes) As I drove along the road to the radar site I came to a closed gate (never seen the gate closed before) which stopped me from actually going to the radar's base. I suppose the gate was closed because some sort of work was going on at the radar site since there were several parked cars at the radar substation.

Anyway I still managed to get these pictures.
king_radar3.jpg (42078 bytes) These are some facts about the radar:

Lat/long coordinates:  43/51/50N 79/34/27W

Implementation strategy:  Upgrade existing Doppler

Three letter site identifier:  WKR

Site elevation:  360 m

Tower height:  27 m

Public meeting to be/was held on:  N/A

Opening held on:  N/A

System upgraded:  2000

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