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Commemorating my survival
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Is there a way to do this? |
Posted by: Chalmleshe1974 - Yesterday, 09:49 - Forum: General Discussion
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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
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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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Commemorating my survival |
Posted by: charlieforward9@gmail.com - 2025-06-29, 05:16 - Forum: Website, Maps and Applications
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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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air-core loop connection to H-field preamplifier 23.1 |
Posted by: GeezerD - 2025-06-23, 04:13 - Forum: Hardware, Software, Lightning Physics
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I've wound my loops, and found the wiring diagram for the preamp at https://docs.lightningmaps.org/hardware/...tors/mini/.
Is proper for me to simply hook up my two unshielded loops to H1+, H1-, and H2+,H2-, respectively, without any soldering on the preamp board?
A screw-connection header is already soldered to the board.
Other preamp instructions indicate that pairs of solder pads on the back of the board are to be bridged if an air-core loop antenna is used.
The solder pads appear to be present on the 23.1 preamp board, but no mention is made in the instructions about bridging them.
(I'm not posting from the account I registered when I got the URL from booting up Blue Mini on my home network: I'm pretty sure I know how I broke it and I can't fix it in the short term: I am dellel, station 3147, if my bone fides are required to get an answer).
I spent the day getting set up: debugging the connection to the very economical Bingfu GPS active antenna,
www.amazon.com/Bingfu-Waterproof-Navigation-Connector-Tracking/dp/B07R7RC96G
The baud rate turned out to be pretty important for the 1 Hz GPS signal: anything less than 460800 would fail to lock it,
and a view of the overhead sky is best for it: a south window simply would not do.
thanks for reading
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Partlist for system red |
Posted by: lvrenml - 2025-06-08, 21:37 - Forum: Hardware, Software, Lightning Physics
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Hi, ive already ordered and had boards for system red. But i'm new to radio engineering. I found a well understood partlist for system blue in docs.lightningmaps.org/hardware/lightning-detectors/hardware_reference/
Do someone have the same look partlist but for System Red?
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