Anyway, you need to link to at least one other station to correlate the strikes, I initially linked to a friend in Texas to prove things worked and i saw us correlate strikes over by the Bahamas and by Antarctica and east of NZ. Then I got linked with 41South of Wellington and with a few mods to site mounting and location here, it became a reality to view NZ weather systems esp the one to the east of the SI, then came this evening.
With the antenna - a centre post and two arms per coil - and a friend, we hauled it to the top of some 5m high scaffold at home here and lashed it to the hand rails... It works by reading in the magnetic wave form as Amplitude Modulated pulse signal. And works on 10-11kHz and so is VLF radio waves. Unfortunately I do have several electric fences around here but they are cancelled with the correlation.
Anyway, attached links show the Lightning strikes we had in Sth Waikato today plus some later on out in the Bay Of Planty and some approaching Cape Reinga from the west in mid Tasman Sea. The project has cost about $250 and a fair bit of handyman time. but the reward was tonight when i got 4 dots on the map around home!! I did not know if Colin's was going to see strikes here over the mountainous terrain ov national Park and whatever else there is in the way... Tararuas, Ruahines etc... BTW we have had 21mm of rain since 8pm.
http://www.inmanavenue.com/lightningradar.html
Graeme
Simply awesome!!! Magnificent effort! How much wa$ the total co$t, Graeme?
actually could probably split and filter audio band XY signals from the boltek antenna, it's pretty broad but obviously not the high Q and gain at that frequency for the long range stuff!
