NEXRAD fleet - deployment dates

[John Cameron]

Can anyone here connect me with the dates that individual 88Ds went online? I'm especially interested in KFDR (apparently the 7th deployment in the fleet)

 

[Mike Smith]

Online or "commissioned"? They are not the same thing.

 

[John Cameron]

either would be fine...

I would be most interested on the date the unit began sampling the sky. I can;t imagine the dates would be too far apart, but we are talking the govt here

 

[Mike Smith]

February 15, 1992, as best as Steve Pryor and I can determine. "Commissioning" would likely have been at least two years later, if I recall correctly.

 

[John Cameron]

February 15, 1992, as best as Steve Pryor and I can determine. "Commissioning" would likely have been at least two years later, if I recall correctly.

Thanks for your help , Mike