2 hours ago
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You have a very valid point, but we can't have everything
I have tested and practiced in Switzerland, now packed the antennas and detectors with good quality power supply and shielded cables and I had some success with remotely guiding in order to find a good antenna placement (e.g. not on top of the air conditioning units). Not ideal for sure, and it require collaboration and patience from the host for a few days. When they run, #3111, #3113, #3155 & #3157 provide some useful signals. How do I know ? I ran query for all strikes in Africa below 20N (50 million km2) and the listed stations are involved in 99% of the strikes.
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I looked at the station reports for those four stations. The green line is very low in the graphs, but the other lines look very encouraging. I think you have accomplished quite a lot. Thank you.
I see that for each of these four stations, you chose ferrite-rod antennas. I think that is smart. For the host with what might be limited experience, any other kind of H antenna has more ways it might go wrong.
Do you add shielding to the FRAs?
Do you mount the FRAs and preamp to a board, so reduce the risk the host will damage the fine wires from the FRAs?
You have a very valid point, but we can't have everything
I have tested and practiced in Switzerland, now packed the antennas and detectors with good quality power supply and shielded cables and I had some success with remotely guiding in order to find a good antenna placement (e.g. not on top of the air conditioning units). Not ideal for sure, and it require collaboration and patience from the host for a few days. When they run, #3111, #3113, #3155 & #3157 provide some useful signals. How do I know ? I ran query for all strikes in Africa below 20N (50 million km2) and the listed stations are involved in 99% of the strikes.
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I looked at the station reports for those four stations. The green line is very low in the graphs, but the other lines look very encouraging. I think you have accomplished quite a lot. Thank you.
I see that for each of these four stations, you chose ferrite-rod antennas. I think that is smart. For the host with what might be limited experience, any other kind of H antenna has more ways it might go wrong.
Do you add shielding to the FRAs?
Do you mount the FRAs and preamp to a board, so reduce the risk the host will damage the fine wires from the FRAs?
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