Lightning Strike website and Equipment detail.

Channel Hopper

Channel Hopper

Suffering fools, so you don't have to.
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My Satellite Setup
A little less analogue, and a lot more crap.
My Location
UK
I'm not sure of the health and safety aspect of walking round in an electrical storm with (foil underpants and ) a whip aerial but one member of the local amateur radio club to here has been involved in the Blitzortung project.

M0VLF Callsign Page

The following page shows imagery of the important end of the hardware though you need to subscribe for the bigger pictures.

Antenna - The never ending story

and the bit that make up the box.

Blitzortung.org Documentation
 
Terryl

Terryl

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My Satellite Setup
OpenBox X5 on a 1 meter motorized dish.
And now a 10 foot "C" band dish.

Custom built PC
My Location
Deep in the Boonies in the central Sierra Nevada mountains of California.
Quote Forrest Gump, "Stupid is, stupid does" you don't go anywhere near an antenna or wear any type of metal during a lightning storm.

I have seen a 250 foot aluminum communication tower melted to the ground when a big one hit, took several minuets for my eyes to clear before I saw it.
 
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