Emitter identification is brought into research hotspot in the field of electronic warfare. To solve the problem of radar emitter identification in time-variation channel, a local correlation testing based on Likelihood Test was proposed. The method used the radar waveforms with large diversity parts to form reference waveform, identified signals by building a hypothesis model, and adjusted the variability of reference waveforms by a scale coefficient. Simulation result shows that the recognition performance and the multipath interference performance of the method are better than likelihood-ratio test with the incremental variability of the reference signal.