[AMRadio] lightningstorm.com

[Mike Sawyer]

I don't know if you have a smart phone but the Weatherbug app has an 
additional application called Spark. It gives a pretty good idea of 
lightning strikes. How far away, and which direction they are coming from. 
This is also good from a radio perspective. You can decide on which bands 
are usable and you can generally gauge how long you can be on the air before 
you need to pull the plug (literally!).
Mod-U-Lator,
Mike(y)
W3SLK
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert" <w4rl at bellsouth.net>
To: <amradio at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2013 12:12 PM
Subject: Re: [AMRadio] lightningstorm.com


Mike(y),

Now that, Sir, is one slick website you posted.  Thanks.  Of note I
found a simple schematic some years ago and built a small breadboarded
lightning detecting LB tuned circuit with a LED as the indicator.  Very
basic butso very sensitive out to about 200 miles.  No compass rose
directional circuit though.  I just knownot onlyfrom QRN
potentialS-meter pegs that nasty lightening hits with blue skies
overhead, lightning bolts from a 50k tall anvil producing T-cell 10 or
more miles away can really ruin a AM'er gear and day to boot.  I guess
that's where the old saying, "Right out of the Blue" originated.  It can
happen and it did right here in my back yard one clear blue hot summer
afternoon three years ago. And I mean, big time. That was one "Click,
flash, boom, cry me a river" winning the Mother Nature's Big Jewell's
Joule of the Year Award.

It's Mother's Day so celebrate without QRN but only real appreciation.
Everybody 'gots' one somewhere you know.

73 Robert W4RL Pensacola FL