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(2019-12-27, 07:20)geocom7 Wrote: I am new to this. I live near the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, NSW, Australia. The mega fires that you have undoubtedly seen in the recent news were started by lightning. We live in an area not yet burnt, therefore full of tinder dry fuel. As a member of our local volunteer bush fire brigade, we need every assistance in being able to quickly respond to the next round of dry lightning strikes. We live about 200kms from the nearest LightningMaps ground station. We are attempting to calibrate recent LightningMaps strike locations with known lightning strike locations. A new ground station within our area could be very valuable, facilitating our quick field check of lightning induced bushfire. This initiative could significantly reduce bushfire damage to property and may save lives.
I am keen to learn how to get one or more ground stations established within our region.
I am also learning how to use this message posting system.
Where is the sent button 
Chris
Nice thoughts. Just for your info though, it is probably the closest stations to a strike that won't record the matter because they would probably be in an interference mode unless you have a very reduced unit in detection capability, which would assist in the process locally, but unable to assist further afield when those local stations are in interference mode. The great thing about this system, whilst the local units are in interference mode due to a nearby storm, units further away will be filling the bill by accurately recording where strikes are occuring. I am up in Tamworth and can get bumped into interference mode sometimes with some intense storms in south east Queensland. All depends on how cranky mother nature is whacking down them lightning bolts ...... lol. But more stations are always welcome in out Australia / Oceania region
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I don't understand the unspeakably long waiting time for a kit.
There are a thousand companies that manufacture, assemble and test printed circuit boards for little money. There is still a profit margin for it.
That makes me think seriously about an alternative.
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(2019-12-28, 11:18)dl4all Wrote: I don't understand the unspeakably long waiting time for a kit.
There are a thousand companies that manufacture, assemble and test printed circuit boards for little money. There is still a profit margin for it.
That makes me think seriously about an alternative.
Not about profit, actually not for profit educational project. Egon and a few students prepare boards and package them. They are not processing them like a company that is interested in profits. They order boards in quantities that make sense for them to process. Also boards are prioritized to locations that have low coverage. So if you are in a high coverage area the wait could be longer.
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Nice thoughts. Just for your info though, it is probably the closest stations to a strike that won't record the matter because they would probably be in an interference mode unless you have a very reduced unit in detection capability, which would assist in the process locally, but unable to assist further afield when those local stations are in interference mode. The great thing about this system, whilst the local units are in interference mode due to a nearby storm, units further away will be filling the bill by accurately recording where strikes are occuring. I am up in Tamworth and can get bumped into interference mode sometimes with some intense storms in south east Queensland. All depends on how cranky mother nature is whacking down them lightning bolts ...... lol. But more stations are always welcome in out Australia / Oceania region
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I'd love to get involved in this project for two reasons - one, I'm a volunteer firefighter and this data is very useful, and two, I run a very small wisp which also finds this data valuable AND have towers with internet connectivity all over the area (and we have elevation too!)
Our region in the middle area of SA (around Clare Valley) seems to have poor coverage on the maps :/
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Okay, if it is actually maintained to build a network that is as global and evenly distributed as possible, this is a desirable solution. But the pace lags behind that of Galileo.
I would like to receive data from which I can read out whether a thunderstorm hits my location. Then I could automatically initiate the necessary measures via home automation. But as far as one said, only station owners get the necessary data sets.
Another solution would be a programmatic one. You indicate your location on a website and receive a warning about an incoming thunderstorm.
That's a question for the developers of the kits and the website.
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(2019-12-31, 10:23)dl4all Wrote: ... and receive a warning about an incoming thunderstorm.
That is a feature built into these units. Alarms and alerts are configurable through the web interface. I have two alarms set up, one set to go off at 10 km and the other at 5 km.
