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Antenna Marks Forecasting Expansion For Wilmington Office BY SUSAN USHER NEXRAD, or Next Generation radar, so sensitive it can detect sea breezes, could go into regional use as early as next week if testing goes satisfactorily. Installation of the radar's dome antenna at Shallotte was completed last week and UNISYS technicians began installing equipment last STAFF PHOTO *Y SUSAN USHHt THIS ANTENNA for the super-sensitive NEXRAD (Next Genera tion radar) system will collect data for the National Weather Ser vice office in Wilmington. The 38-foot by 39-foot geodesic dome rests on a 66-foot-high tower off N.C. 130 west of Shallotte. Weekly Crossword _ _ . CLUES ACROSS 1. Elucidate 5. Orange 7. Variety entertainment 8. Requested 10. Post 11. Interwoven intials 13. Disinter 14.Allot 17. Grace 19. Eject saliva 21. TTiin candle 22. Ended 23. Hard 24. Ethically (Answers are on CLUES DOWN 2. Announe 3. Crooked 4. Idea 5. Envy 6. Forger 7. Capable 9. Controlled 12. Damaged 15. Endanger 16. Shriek 18. Eject 20. Practice boxing Page 5-C) Tie AUTO JLU S ELECTRIC ALTERNATORS STARTERS VOLTAGE REGULATORS GENERATORS REPAIR? REBUILT? EXCHANGED AUTOMOTIVE WIRING 754-7656 Royal Oak Road & Hwy. 17 N., Shallotte ' TMt BNUfcS/rfJCK BtACOtJ Tuesday at the National Weather Service office at New Hanover International Airport in Wilmington. "We hope to have the system up and operating by Sept. 15," said me teorological technician Chuck Holtzinger. NEXRAD has already been in stalled 2t offices st Raleigh-Durham International Airport and Morehead City, as well as other sites nation wide, as part of the first major up grading of the National Weather Service in 30 years. With its installation, the NWS of fice in Wilmington is expanding to a forecasting station, with new offices. new equipment and a team of mete orologists. Previously the site main ly collected information and acted as a dissemination point for watches, warnings and forecasts prepared elsewhere. The new technology will allow the Wilmington staff to become re gional specialists in coastal and off shore weather, according to A1 Hinn, who retires later this year after serv ing as the site's longtime meteorolo gist-in -charge. The new radar antenna dome in stalled at Shallotte is twice as large as that previously used by the Wilmington NWS office, but not the IS to 20 stories tall Hinn had first anticipated. The radar antenna uses the Dop pler effect to measure changes in frequency. Frequency increases when the source and observer ap proach one another and decreases when they move apart. The antenna reaches out with electromagnetic wave "feelers" thai enable it to de tect and measure motion that is moving towards the area or away from the area, helping provide early warning of severe weather threats. The radar is so sensitive it detects and allows greater study of sea breezes, which can usher in strong spring and summer storms. 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