I am a new user for 3 days now.  I notice that a few of my reporting waveforms and spectrum plots are what I would call "very smooth" compared to most reports from my station and all other stations that I have viewed.  The system seems to be receiving and using these observations, as well as my more "normal" waveforms for calculations.  Can anyone explain these beautiful, but odd waveforms?  They only seem to show up at a range of 3,000 km to maybe 3,300 km ... very strange.

I have attached a screen shot of a report.  -Or- they show up often enough that you should be able to view them:  Station 1838 in Volcan, Panama.  Thanks for any information that you can give me. 

   

Maybe a stupid question, but is there a way to access the raw digitized data? The analog data can be accessed via the optional SMA connectors, but what about the digital signal? I am looking for an easy way to check the spectrum for noise sources.

Hi Guys!

I have bought a RED detector from another user.
He has forgotten login data to blitzortung, he doesn't even remember if it has ever been connected online - how to recover that?
Is that possible to add new user on that hardware?

What is worse, there is probably some error with the detector - the LCD screen is dead/dark/empty, but some diodes glow with the red light.
Someone had suggested for me to try to install new firmware for RED system.
Is that OK?
How can I download the firmware without the login/pass data??




I sincerely hope that you will spare sometime to answer the questions above
I'm looking forward to hearing from you

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap170515.html

Hi,
I thinks there are not too many Persian users here, I saw some reservations from Afghanistan, Armenia and Turkey, So feel free if you want to talk in Persian/Farsi here.
This topic has been started according to these two posts: First - Second
So now just lets say Hi and try to talk about blitzortung.org in middle east

Dear Friends,

In my spare time I am contacting user groups, communities and interested people to point out the importance of Blitzortung lightning detection projet. I am interested in filling "empty zones". This is quite interesting as empty zones cannot be filled "immediately" and several stations are needed (as well as hardware in some case). It means that we shall encourage people to work together.

Here are my questions:

1) Coverage map

The list of stations is available here.
http://en.blitzortung.org/station_list.php

Is there a raster map available somewhere with zoom in-out to visualize approximate geographical coordinate of stations.

2) Grid
Are you planning to define an official grid where there should be at least 1 to n stations in the grid.

This will help user in their settings, detecting low-range or long-range lightnings (stop me if I am wrong).
It could help amateur meteo with statistics.

Also it could help me target zones where it would be nice to have new users.

If there is no grid approach, please let met propose a solution and set-up my own raster server.

3) Funding

If you need funding, I may be able to help. I know you are not looking for money and this is a hobby. But it might be interesting for certain zones (ex: Africa or South-America) to find a sponsor (company or organization) that would install an initial network of 10 to 50 stations, pay for hardware, just for a good start. If you are interested, please let me know and I can contact you privately. I don't need to collect the money, companies or organization will purchase directly from you.

I am French and I speak German also.

Kind regards,
Kellogs

Hallo zusammen

Ich hab mal eine frage zum thema Blue?? Gibt es eine Möglichkeit an ein fertig aufgebautes System inklusive Gehäuse zu kommen, meine lötkünste sind definitv für sowas nicht geeignet         
Vielleicht hat jemand'nen Tipp wäre echt superklasse....
Aktuell läuft meine RED zwar ganz gut hab aber irgendwie bedenken das ich mal zum alten eisen gehöre.....

This is a dedicated forum post here for people from IRAN.
When they are enough users, we will open a direct link to website/forum in farsi.

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In reply to:
https://forum.blitzortung.org/showthread...1#pid14531


Thank you Nodi for contacting us.
This was my post on RIPE forum, thanks for catching it.

This is great to have you on the forum and discuss about lightning detection in your country.

I double-checked and restrictions from E.U. to Iran are over:
http://www.consilium.europa.eu/fr/press/...sanctions/

Please make sure there are no restrictions with customs while importing (on Iranian side) and try to look "in advance".
About Iran, keep in mind that there should be at least 4 stations in the country. After installing first station, we encourage you  to help installation of other stations to go quickly. It is discouraging for people to see a station running during years without success. We encourage you to start a small web page and try to aggregate people around you and maybe research institutes. After 3 or more people register, we can link to your forum or webpage. Use Facebook or equivalent and try to create a small group of interested people

I am rather new on the forum, but I read that Egon had hardware in stock for empty zones.
Maybe he we pick-up your request ... I am not in his shoes.

Welcome on board anyway.

Dear friends,

I added a minimal Wikipedia page, which is presently under review:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Blitzortung.org


If / When research institutes query the WWW, they will probably look at a Wikipedia page.
Please note I am not a wikipedia editor, so if you feel something should be added to the Wikipedia page, feel free to add it.

Kind regards,
Kellogs

From my understanding, the probe should be at least 10 meters away from any electrical equipment.
I am planning to put the probe on top of an old building.

My site is on the French country side, in a very rural area, but :
* I don't have a clear view on sky, because of a small hill. Does it matter?
* I can view a 4G mobile phone emitter, 5 kilometers away. Will it spoof the probe?

Kind regards,
Kellogs