WAPI-TV (Channel 13) bought a color receiver for the National Weather Service WSR-57 S Band radar at Centreville, and put it on the air in May of 1978. The primary weather anchor for Channel 13 at the time was Rosemary Lucas; I would take the job a year later, in September 1979. My MacBook Pro has about 100,000 times the computing power of that old radar receiver, but we sure did love it in the late 70s….
Published on: May 2, 2008 at 8:37 PM
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