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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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  air-core loop connection to H-field preamplifier 23.1
Posted by: GeezerD - 2025-06-23, 04:13 - Forum: Hardware, Software, Lightning Physics - Replies (1)

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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  SYSTEM RED for sale is SOLD
Posted by: Geewizard - 2025-06-18, 17:45 - Forum: General Discussion - Replies (1)

Complete System RED for sale.  Fully functional until 6/18/25 as station 1187.  Included are main RED board, E-field amp, H-field amp, 2 ferrite rod antennas, AC power supply, and GPS antenna.   The ferrite antennas and H-field amp in a nice clear plastic box.

Make me a reasonable offer.  That offer will include shipping to you including insurance.

The system is on ebay now.

Payment by PayPal only.            

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  Partlist for system red
Posted by: lvrenml - 2025-06-08, 21:37 - Forum: Hardware, Software, Lightning Physics - Replies (1)

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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  Firmware Download not possible
Posted by: AHoh78 - 2025-06-08, 18:06 - Forum: Hardware, Software, Lightning Physics - Replies (3)

When I try to access the download site for system red firmware (http://tracker.blitzortung.org/firmware) I get an 404 error (even after login). Could anyone please check?

Thanks.

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  Format change of statistics_s1.json.gz
Posted by: bakerkj - 2025-06-04, 12:30 - Forum: Hardware, Software, Lightning Physics - Replies (2)

Hi it appears that the format of https://data.blitzortung.org/Data/Protec...s1.json.gz changed recently.

Previously it contained in addition to other fields:
  - all
  - member
  - valid
  - used

Now it contains:
  - total
  - valid
  - involved
  - used

Is there documentation of this change somewhere?

Thanks,
Ken

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  Making a copper tubing H-field antenna
Posted by: Geewizard - 2025-06-02, 14:29 - Forum: Hardware, Software, Lightning Physics - Replies (3)

I've seen several H-field orthagonal loop antennas using copper tubing on the forum.

How is the loop wire put inside the copper tubing?  What gauge wire?  How many turns?

Details would be appreciated!

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  Optimizing H-Field Antennas for Urban Installations
Posted by: WonderNomad - 2025-05-22, 08:22 - Forum: Hardware, Software, Lightning Physics - Replies (2)

Hi all,

I’ve been experimenting with a more compact H-field loop antenna setup for my station — mainly because I’m in a pretty noisy urban area with limited space on the roof. Switching to a twisted pair loop with a ferrite-loaded core has actually cut down some of the EMI for me, maybe by around 30% compared to my old open loop.

I also tried putting the preamp in a grounded metal box, and that definitely helped a bit more.

Curious if anyone else here is dealing with tight spaces or lots of RFI?
Thanks in advance!

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