Looking to setup station in South Africa

[Gregory_J]

Hello Knickohr

How about your trip to Namibia? Are you ready or maybe you are in yourney?

I did found the farm, is it some of astronomical farm? used for science issues?

Best regards

[Knickohr]

Gregory,

my airplane goes on Thursday morning, will arrive same day very late. Installation of the station is planned on Saturday. Hope all is OK, because there is 180km no distributor or other shopping market.

No, it's an guest farm for astronomers, they do no science. It's a cattle & cow farm, a typical Namibian farm. The only special thing is that this farm serves some hobby astronomers to do their hobby in wintertime (April to September). Look at http://www.tivoli-astrofarm.de

Updates here : http://forum.blitzortung.org/showthread.php?tid=1216

Yes, I think the nearest stations from Europe (8000km ???) will be used. It's planned to build up 4 more stations in South Africa. Some Kits are on the way, I hope stations will go online in a few weeks. Look at Roger (thread starter), he plans a station at Pretoria. Thats perfect, "only" 1000km away. But it's not enough, we need at least 2 stations more.

Thomas

[Jacquesvw]

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

Hi Roger,

I'm from South Africa (Wolmaransstad) and finished building my system today. I noticed Knickohr's station in Namibia two days ago and that inspired me to finish my station.

I'm still trying to find my way with the installation though, but hope to become the second station owner in Africa soon.

[Knickohr]

Cool,

waiting for some "blue lines" from Wolmaransstad on the map !

Thomas

[rogerpaulthompson]

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

Hi Roger,

I'm from South Africa (Wolmaransstad) and finished building my system today. I noticed Knickohr's station in Namibia two days ago and that inspired me to finish my station.

I'm still trying to find my way with the installation though, but hope to become the second station owner in Africa soon.

Hi Jacques !

Good job on wrapping it up and getting your station on line ! Your station together with Thomas's station in Namibia brings Africa to life !  

It's been a while since I was on the forums, been away waiting for the new hardware to be made available. But good thing I checked back in as I see was was not receiving email notifications of this topic's activity ( I have subsequently changed notification settings on my profile). It's good to see some activity on this topic ! :-)

You don't perhaps have any word on where the "other three" stations shipped to SA are planned to be stationed do you ?

Regards,
Roger

[W7DRM]

For those of you who are trying to setup a RED station and haven't found the WXFORUM forum, I would suggest that you go to the following link. There, you will find a large amount of information on setting-up your station. It's an English-only forum but most of you seem to speak/write English very well so you shouldn't have any problems with the translation. If you do have questions, don't hesitate to post them in the forum.

• WXFORUM.NET - Blitzortung
  

It's great to see some new stations about to come on-line soon! Congratulations to those enhancing our coverage in Africa.

[Jacquesvw]

Hi Jacques !

Good job on wrapping it up and getting your station on line ! Your station together with Thomas's station in Namibia brings Africa to life !  

It's been a while since I was on the forums, been away waiting for the new hardware to be made available. But good thing I checked back in as I see was was not receiving email notifications of this topic's activity ( I have subsequently changed notification settings on my profile). It's good to see some activity on this topic ! :-)

You don't perhaps have any word on where the "other three" stations shipped to SA are planned to be stationed do you ?

Regards,
Roger

Thanks Roger.

I have no idea what's happening with the other stations.

[Knickohr]

I'm too.

Don't know where all the other stations for Africa are

But today, I'm not very happy. Internet-connection is lost very often. Can't do anything, because I'm back in Germany since a few hours.

Thomas

[Jacquesvw]

Thomas, how are you connecting the NAM station the the internet, do you use a cellular modem/gateway?

[Knickohr]

WiMax

Long distance WiFi. There is no other option

http://www.telecom.na/index.php/speedlink-home

Thomas