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Looking to setup station in South Africa - rogerpaulthompson - 2014-12-05
Hi all,
I'm interested in setting up a station in South Africa and wondered if there are any other potential users out there in South Africa looking to setup a station.
I am located in Pretoria at approximately -25.849041°, 28.228571° and am looking to hear from you !
Roger
RE: Looking to setup station in South Africa - Knickohr - 2015-01-05
Great !
You will build up a station in South Africa ?
I will install one in Namibia 200km southeast from Windhoek.
S 23° 27' 39,0" / E 18° 01' 04,0"
If we get another 2 or more stations running, we are able to locate strikes in South Africa.
Thomas
RE: Looking to setup station in South Africa - rogerpaulthompson - 2015-01-06
Hi Thomas,
Indeed, I will setup a station once new H/W becomes available.
Note I had a response from site administration in response to a query of mine at the beginning of December indicating that 4 units have already been shipped to interested participants in South Africa! I am not sure of their location(s). Those units are not yet assembled or reporting yet. So if everything goes well with their individual builds I guess pretty soon we should see some activity appearing on our map.
We've had some pretty epic lightning and storms here in our parts the last month or so, our seasonal peak for thunderstorms. Looking forward to having it covered.
Roger
RE: Looking to setup station in South Africa - Knickohr - 2015-01-06
Roger, that's great.
I think at the middle of the year, South Africa is present at the maps.
I've some spare parts here to to build 2 or 3 stations, but I've no PCBs :-(
I will go to Namibia in April, so if we get new harware, is's possible to build up a station at Farm Tivoli.
Thomas
RE: Looking to setup station in South Africa - Knickohr - 2015-03-01
Hi !
Station 1305 for Farm Tivoli is ready to start up !
I've build up the station the last days and it is now running under test here in germany. Will go to Namibia in 5 weeks to install the station. Hope all is going OK.
Thomas
RE: Looking to setup station in South Africa - Tobi - 2015-03-01
Great to hear Thomas!
I hope the stations, which have been sent to South Africa last year, will go online too.
RE: Looking to setup station in South Africa - Gregory_J - 2015-03-04
Hey Knickohr
I have question to you, I am just courious.
Do you do this station for some one or just for yourself? Do you have someone who will get service for those station in Namibia? If some will happen?
If everything will go good your station will be first at African continet.
Best Regards
Sorry for english
RE: Looking to setup station in South Africa - Knickohr - 2015-03-04
Hi !
No, this is my station. I will install it on the farm and maintenance it. My station in Germany works well, only once or twice a week I do an remote access to check the station.
Thomas
RE: Looking to setup station in South Africa - Gregory_J - 2015-03-05
It is my hobby to check map for finding new stations in new areas, I remember first staions in New Zealand, Australia, USA, Colombia, Brazil, Thailand. Now it is time for Africa.
Best Regards
RE: Looking to setup station in South Africa - Steph - 2015-03-11
I guess stations from europe will be used as long as there is only one station in africa?
I'm confident that I hear some Signals from Africa, especially during (african) summer nights. Pretty few though, considering central Africa is the region with the highest strike density in the world.