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Clarification on Region s...
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How to Optimize
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Commemorating my survival
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What every prospective ow...
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Locating ferrite antennas...
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NEW SYSTEM RED FOR SALE
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  Red EField Boards
Posted by: davidmc36 - 2025-07-16, 17:49 - Forum: General Discussion - No Replies

Is there any way to get the files for PCB 13 and 14? I would like to get some made. I see places that will make boards and do the SMD part.

Seems a lot of the files are purged from BO database.

TIA

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  Clarification on Region splitting in Archive data
Posted by: droid - 2025-07-15, 08:51 - Forum: Hardware, Software, Lightning Physics - No Replies

Hi,
I'm using the data stored at Data/Protected but I'm struggling to understand whether the Region subsetting is mutually exclusive.

Suppose I want to gather ALL pulses detected over Europe in a certain day.
As far as I understand this means I have to gather the data from AT LEAST folders Strikes_1 and Strikes_18. Strikes_19 appears to be just a mirror of Strikes_18.

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However, there are some lighthings over Europe that are coming from the other regions, for example Strikes_3.
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Does that mean that the pulses detected in that region (which in theory does not include Europe) also need to be considered? 
Basically I just want to make sure that lighthings saved in every region do not contain duplicate in other regions, which would mean that the only 100% safe way of extracting data from the archive is to consider all regions every time.

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  Locating ferrite antennas inside metal shed?
Posted by: Geewizard - 2025-07-10, 13:33 - Forum: Hardware, Software, Lightning Physics - No Replies

I'm helping another user optimize his RED system.  He's installed his ferrite antennas inside a metal shed.  I don't think that's a good idea.

Any comments?

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  How to Optimize
Posted by: davidmc36 - 2025-07-04, 15:17 - Forum: Hardware, Software, Lightning Physics - Replies (3)

I installed ferrite antenna in attic of garage. It is a single attached garage. I replaced the 1 foot leads from antenna to pre-amp to avoid mounting it up with antenna. There is about 20 feet of 26 ga twisted pair shielded going to pre-amp. There is about 20 feet of Cat5 from pre-amp to amp.

I wonder what might be the best way to optimize performance by removing noise floor?

1. Provide cleaner power supply

2. Shorten twisted pair back to 1 foot and use 20 feet of Cat5 to amp 

3. I have 100 feet of direct burial Cat5 on hand that could run out to a weatherproof enclosure up to 75 feet away from the house.

I seem unable to turn gains up past 10x2 or it goes steady interference.

Any advice would be appreciated.

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  Is there a way to do this?
Posted by: Chalmleshe1974 - 2025-07-04, 09:49 - Forum: General Discussion - Replies (1)

Hello,

Please forgive my lack of knowledge.  I use this website frequently to help determine where wildland fires may start in my region during fire season.  The problem I have is that, if I am not monitoring this site constantly as a storm passes, and plotting the strikes separately, then the information is lost once the strike drops off the map.  It would be of enormous help to me to be able to see strike data for a specific region aver the past 6-12, maybe even 24 hours.  Is there a way to do this?  If so, how?  If not, is it something you folks would ever consider implementing?

Either way, please know that a great many of us in the farm/ranch community are very grateful that this site exists.  Fires often don't take off and burn for several hours after a strike, and it's wonderful to have some data to help us focus our watch efforts.

Thanks!

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  Curious About Setting Up a New Blitzortung Station — Any Tips?
Posted by: WonderNomad - 2025-07-03, 09:29 - Forum: General Discussion - Replies (2)

Hi everyone,

I’ve been following Blitzortung for a while and really enjoy seeing how global lightning activity gets tracked by so many volunteers. I’m now seriously considering setting up my own station and contributing data to the network.

Before I order a kit, I’d like to ask a few quick questions:
For a beginner, is it better to go for the System Blue or wait for any future hardware updates?

I’ve seen some amazing station setups on this forum and would love to learn from everyone’s experience.

Thanks a lot in advance for your advice and insights!

Best regards,
WonderNomad

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Bug Blitzortung Lightning Data does not show up in LightningMaps website
Posted by: ciavino.dellotto - 2025-07-01, 18:43 - Forum: General Discussion - Replies (1)

apparently ive noticed a bug in lightningmaps.org where it no longer displays data from the testing and Blitzortung sources, even while the sources are turned on in the menu. this must be a bug here and its really annoying that i cant see the thunder fronts on the other two sources. i dont know if this applies to this forum but im reporting it for the LightningMaps website which redirected me here.

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  White dot doesn't show up on my station
Posted by: Geewizard - 2025-06-29, 14:25 - Forum: General Discussion - Replies (1)

The little white dot showing my station was used for a detector link doesn't show up on the map.


It always used to show up for my old RED but now doesn't for my BLUE BASIC.

Why is that?

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  Commemorating my survival
Posted by: charlieforward9@gmail.com - 2025-06-29, 05:16 - Forum: Website, Maps and Applications - Replies (2)

I was on a VERY remote bike ride, when I got stuck in a lightning field for about an hour and had a bolt strike no more than 200m away from me - catching the thing on on video. 

For proof: 
My Coords:  29°55'38.9"N 83°04'23.6"W
Approx DateTime: 2025-06-27T00:16:00Z

Having gone through such a vulnerable moment, in the presence of over 100 lightning all within eyesight of me, I would like to create a short visualization of my time through the region to bring awareness to the gravity of the situation and share the story with more immersability.

I am also a frontend & GIS developer, and very avid contributor to open source projects, as seen through my Github charlieforward9. 

I would not have a problem setting up a system to contribute, but I am living on a month to month lease until I get married next year and would like to make that larger commitment to a community project when my living situation has stabilized.

If so kind to, would anyone mind sending me the raw dataset of lightning strikes between: 

(+/- 2 hrs or) 
2025-06-26T22:00:00Z 
2025-06-27T02:00:00Z 

and 

(+/- 1° or)
North: 30.5 
South: 29.5 
West: -84 
East: -82

For Video Proof, please email me, its not letting me send videos in here: charlesrichardsonusa@gmail.com

Thank you for making the image samples and the forum available for questions!

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Lightbulb New early weather alert system app API request for lighting detector inside app
Posted by: NOTIS96 - 2025-06-24, 11:23 - Forum: Website, Maps and Applications - No Replies

Hello .. im managing to build an app called AlertNet... an app base don algorithms and calculation including .. presidential alerts , Earthquake warnings( Early earthquake warnings in near Future... firefighting conditions and much more .. one of this system was lighting strike . when a lighting strike occurred near user then it will send an alert notification about warnings and instruction .. So please send me an email ntsoukopoulos@gmail.com for talk .. I'm will be so happy if i manage to make my lighting monitor on app working <3 
Loukopoulos Panagiotis (Athens, Greece) here an example of app with blitzortung simulated ..



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