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Old 15th Jun 2016, 16:42
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Does anyone know how many Surface Movement Radars (antennas)Heathrow has?
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Four

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Much obliged!
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That's just being greedy!
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Heard that Dubai had like 8 of them. Anybody know?
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Heard that Dubai had like 8 of them. Anybody know?
Dubai is around 3 times the size of Heathrow in area, so 8 SMR heads sounds about right.
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Vancouver, Calgary, and Montreal each have 1. Toronto has 2. Just saying....
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Dubai got 5 Terma Scanter 5502 SMR...
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SFO has one SMR and will soon commission 16 MLAT sensors for our new system.
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