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Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 'The Threat to Weather Radars by Wireless Technology'. The FCC ruling is re-opening the Terminal Doppler Weather Radar (TDWR) band (channels 120, 124, 128) with new test requirements for DFS protection. 'Winning Back the Weather Radio Channels Adds Capacity to 5GHz Wi-Fi Spectrum'. Decision ERC/DEC/(99)23 adds 5250-5350MHz and 5470-5725MHz with more Tx power but with the added caveat that DFS was required to protect legacy users (Military Radar and Satellite uplinks)

'Radar Detection and DFS on MikroTik' (PDF). There are several ways in which this can be achieved, either on-device or in a WLAN controller. Uniform spreading is a mechanism used to provide an aggregated uniform load across all allocated channels within the declared spectrum mask. Due to the severity of interference, South African weather services ended up abandoning C band operation, switching their radar network to S band. In Hungary, the weather radar system was declared non-operational for more than a month. Implementation and configuration problems caused significant disruption in weather radar operations in countries around the world. The decision to use 5 GHz spectrum for Wi-Fi was finalized in the World Radiocommunication Conference in 2003 however, the meteorological community was not involved in the process. Prior to the introduction of Wi-Fi, one of the biggest applications of the 5 GHz band was Terminal Doppler Weather Radar. DFS is mandatory for the 5250–53–5725 MHz bands in India.

DFS is mandated for the 5470–5725 MHz U-NII band in United States by the FCC. The actual mechanism, durations, radar pulse pattern, power levels, and frequency bands on which DFS is enforced vary by jurisdiction. Thereafter, the access point performs In-Service Monitoring (ISM) to detect active radar signals if radar is detected, and the access point is configured to automatically select a channel, it broadcasts a switch-channel event to its clients and follows by switching the channel. This commonly takes one to two minutes, but could take up to ten minutes. During this phase, the access point is in a passive state scanning for radar signals. When starting operation, an access point automatically selects channels with low interference levels in a phase known as Channel Availability Check (CAC).

United states doppler radar weather channel