Conical scan weather radar

A radar operational method:

• providing a radar array including at least one radar device;
• indexing said radar array to a predetermined grid having a cross track perpendicular to a direction of travel of said radar array and an along track in line with said direction of travel of said radar array;
• performing a scan by independently directing each of said at least one radar devices to scan at a fixed incidence angle along a scan path that sweeps across said cross track;
• capturing and recording the return signal from each of said at least one radar devices;
• creating a single modulated pulse waveform using a single transmit/receive channel to support the signals from each of said at least one radar devices;
• transmitting said modulated pulse waveform;
• and
• receiving and processing said modulated pulse waveform by separating it to allow discrete processing of each return signal from each radar device.