Does anyone know what are the criteria based on which the planes are associated with radar sites on the web page?
For example, my radar site picks up a plane that took of from an airport close-by. I look on FR24 live tracker and it's there, and down, where that radar dish is shown it says Radar "T-KPHF1" and shows my site. Good.
The plane flies away, I can still see it on my local web-page (ADS-B), but, at not even 5 miles from me, the "Radar" changes to F-KFKN1. Well, that's a station at least 30-40 miles away, and probably it just picked up that plane. Why was it switched from my feed?
Why I ask this? Because most of the time, when I filter the Live tracker page I see zero planes as being associated to my radar. But I see multiple associated with other sites (mostly F-KFKN1, F-7NC21).
My question is... why? Is something that makes my data un-trusty or un-reliable? Because then, I would like to fix that.
Is that based on the maximum range? One of the sites doesn't share it's stats, the other indeed has a bigger range. I was imagining that the hand-over happens when I drop the signal, another radar is selected (from the many that are seeing that plane). Not that is preemptively switched at 10 miles out.
For example, my radar site picks up a plane that took of from an airport close-by. I look on FR24 live tracker and it's there, and down, where that radar dish is shown it says Radar "T-KPHF1" and shows my site. Good.
The plane flies away, I can still see it on my local web-page (ADS-B), but, at not even 5 miles from me, the "Radar" changes to F-KFKN1. Well, that's a station at least 30-40 miles away, and probably it just picked up that plane. Why was it switched from my feed?
Why I ask this? Because most of the time, when I filter the Live tracker page I see zero planes as being associated to my radar. But I see multiple associated with other sites (mostly F-KFKN1, F-7NC21).
My question is... why? Is something that makes my data un-trusty or un-reliable? Because then, I would like to fix that.
Is that based on the maximum range? One of the sites doesn't share it's stats, the other indeed has a bigger range. I was imagining that the hand-over happens when I drop the signal, another radar is selected (from the many that are seeing that plane). Not that is preemptively switched at 10 miles out.
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