Has anyone noticed on the green systems that the strikes are not counting much.
I did a check on the system and its getting good hits however
the total strikes and percentage shows way lower than what it should.
I will be upgrading soon to the blue next few months until I get the purchase account setup.

What is the cost on the blue if I send the green back ? Boy I hate to drop off this network
since I have been running since 2012 ....5 years!

Paul Kalamaras
Palm Beach Gardens Blitzortung Station
The first of the group in the USA that started in 2012.

Hello to all. 
I just finished assembling the blue kit. 
You wanted to know if I supply the card and connect only the network, I can update the firmware and register to the portal my station?

Hi,

I have just received my system blue and going to make E field and H field antennas.  I have a couple of questions:

What is the minimum height for the E field antenna?
If I mount the system blue in my shed then I doubt I can get the E field antenna above 5m.
If I put the E field antenna in my house the E field antenna will have to go on my wind speed/direction mast, the wx station transmitter is located about 4m below, will this be okay as the speed/direction is just low frequency switch contacts?

The H field antenna is going to be two ferrite rod antennas, these will probably be in the loft.  I assume that these are both mounted horizontally, one facing east-west and the other north-south?

If I put my system blue in a remote location and use a wifi router what is the minimum recommended distance from system blue to wifi?

Sorry for the stupid basic questions but I would like to get it installed in the best place first time.

Thanks

Robin

Hallo liebe Forumsmitglieder!

Seit vorgestern bin ich nun stolzer Besitzer eines System Blue, ab heute ist alles einsatzbereit!
Ich habe gleich zu Anfang ein kleines Problemchen, also, wenn ein Admin von Blitzortung.org mitliest, bitte um Hilfestellung:
Ich kann das Webinterface nicht autentifizieren, da ich bisher keine Bestätigungsmail mit Aktivierungslink erhalten habe. Station-ID ist 1633, User-ID 1376.

Falls jemand vorab schon einen Tipp hat, bitte melden.

Ich werde euch sicher von Zeit zu Zeit mit Newbie-Fragen nerven, bitte nicht böse sein 

Hi all.

I have soldered in the past but feel it would be better to ask if someone with greater experience would be able to assist

Fully prepared to pay for your time, make a donation etc.

I live in south Oxfordshire so either happy to post my kit out or visit.

Thanks in advance,

Ron

Hello,
I have the RED system with version 7.4 which works fine. I wanted to move to version 8.1 but after 20 minutes there is no network connection and asked me to check the network cable. I tried version 8.0 and 8.1, the same finding, network problem !!!
Have you an idea about this failure.
Thank you and read you
JAK

I handed version 7.4 and no problem!

Hey Everyone,

I have a System Blue (PCB 19.3).  The system does not seem to be working.  I have everything soldered up according to the instructions... When I plug it in the following happens:

- Solid Red Power Light on main PCB.
- Solid Light on both E and H field boards.
- GPS light (on PCB, not the blue LED soldered on) blinks like 7 times and just then off.

I have a grounding clamp connected to the outside of the RG6, seemed a good place to ground. 

That's all that seems to happen.  LAN is not active (no lights on router or PCB RJ45 network connector).

Is this normal? If I have bad GPS reception (this is on my work bench in basement) will the unit fail to boot?

Thoughts?

Hey guys,

I moved my e-field antenna/probe outside yesterday (made a PVC pipe enclosure). It was up in the attic above the garage. Since then, it seems that it is in interference mode more than normal. See below for the numbers that I'm seeing. Let me know what you think, should I move it back in the attic or what?

Thanks!

• • ModeAutomatic
    
    
  • SignalsReceived: 1131192, Good: 1129139, Sent: 103399
    
    
  • Signal RateLast second: 0, Last 60s: 0.1
    
    
  • ErrorsNo GPS: 1, Overflow: 442
    

LightningMaps.org seems a bit flaky today, it's not showing any signals and there's gaps appearing in the graphs. Seems to be affecting more than one region too (I checked Oceanic and Europe). Is this a known bug? Thanks

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We are having an unusual amount of rain and storms with a lot of lightning yesterday and today here in Wisconsin, in the upper midwest of the USA.  The 'train' effect of a stationary positioned front with a lot of energy from the south is positioned so wave after wave of some pretty hot cells has moved over me one right after another.  Usually there is a pause of about 30 to 60 minutes and then along comes another one.

Rain total is now 5.51", with more expected.  Too wet.

But the position of the storm train across my location has provided many cells with lots of cloud to ground lightning to watch.  It is interesting that the main path is about ten miles south of me, although some move by over me, too.

One thing I noticed is that my station's data is used for strike plots up to about 3 to 5 miles away, but anything closer than that shows no participation and many other stations' data used to plot the strike.  This was very consistent all afternoon and evening as I watched.

I wonder if the algorithms screen out extremely close strikes, with some sort of physics being that super close strikes are not well captured with the stations? 

Just curious if anyone has had their station participate in calculating strikes just a few miles or even less?

Oh, the expanding circles for predicting the onset of thunder was very easy to evaluate with hundreds  of chances to watch the circle touch my station and the thunder, if heard, was amazingly close in timing to the estimate provided by the circle.  Very nice.

Dale