Our server provider seems to have again a problem with the internet connection. This is not a problem of blitzortung.org, so please do not write me an email to inform me about that.

/Egon

In charge of an experiment in my company and member of Blitzortung community, I wish a real time interface with an internal software to use Blitzortung data flow.
Is it possible to create this link ?
Can you tell me  the steps  to create this link?

Thank you for you answers.

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/new...ealed.html

There is so much going on that please don't take this note as an important concern.

But unless someone says something, you'll not know, so put this on your list of fix its when you get bored and have nothing to do.

I did check with several other users and they have found the same concern, so it doesn't seem to be just me.

Issue #1:  When I go to lightningmaps.org, log in and then go to the real time display, the map comes up as I have left it, and the station selections are all there, but the lines setting I made is forgotten from the previous visit.

I know it used to remember all the settings, and it is easy enough to go to the upper right hand corner, select the little antenna with the vibrations eminating from it and see Stations, Lines and Coverage and then re-select the Lines radio dot that I want.  The curious thing is that the Stations and the Coverage stay selected to where they were when I last visited.

Issue #2:  I remember but can't attest without doubt that the Real Time Lightning page used to remember that I had previously signed in, and even provides a box that says Stay Logged In under the For Participants, LogIn selection on the left side.  I sort of remember that I could return to the page some time later and it recognized me as having signed in.

I'm not seeing any other trouble, and I do think that I have the cookies OK'ed in my browser, and it seems to do the same thing whether I use FireFox, Chrome, or IE.

None of these are big deals but they seem to have changed from some time ago and I've been hesitant to even mention them at all, but if there are revisions in the future, it would be nice to have them return to working as before.

Thank you.  Dale
Station 976

After years of fascinated watching real time lightning data on the Blitzortung website, I'm interested in operating a Sytem Blue lightning detection site.

I'm aware that Sytem Blue still is in development. Because I currently renovate our house, it would be much easier, if I could install the cables needed for Sytem Blue now.

Could anyone please specify which cables are needed between antenna/(pre-)amplifier and gps antenna mounted in an attic and the control unit, which should be installed in the basement?

Thx Martin

This thread gives you information on how to order a detector.

Please do not ask us by email, when the boards are available. We will announce it here in this thread.

Date: 12. August 2016
Status: Detectors are available

   

The ordering process of detectors is as follows. Everybody who leaves his email at the [url=//forum.blitzortung.org/www.blitzortung.org/cover_your_area.php][/url]Cover Your Area Page page is stored in a reservation list and gets a rank. If detectors are available, we will proceed according to this list. Nevertheless, about one third of the detectors will be reserved to particularly interesting locations.

In any case please
1.) read the old Project Description, (thoroughly!),
2.) read the new Project Description with Assembly Instruktion for System Blue (thoroughly!)



/Egon

Hi All,

I've been looking all around blitzortung.org but can't manage to find how I could acquire the hardware for setting up a new station in a city near by Barcelone (spain). I spend 100% of my time developing, assembling and programming custom hardware of almost any complexity so it will be no problem at all if I have to assemble and setup all things to get it to work.

How could I acquire the kit? Thanks a lot in advance.

Best regards, Victor

Hello,
caused by working with "mds" and station numbers given by raw TOA material I wondered about two questions:

1) The network uses GPS to determine the location of a station and to provide them with a precise timestamp.
But in what way is the earth approximated as an ideal spheric?
Could it be that the network uses the WGS-84 ellipsoid like e.g. aviation does?
 
2) Looking for the smallest number of stations required I got the following values:
REGION        NUMBER
Europe        12
America        11
Oceania        7

(Indeed I am quite sure only six or seven stations were needed a couple of years ago concerning Europe.)
In what way did/ does the smallest required number of stations change, concerning the three regions?

best regards
PothThom

and thanks for your time...

In common with many others I'm eagerly awaiting the release of the System Blue units.  I'd like to set up a station in northern Queensland, Australia.  I have a fast stable Internet connection and have the technical ability to carry out any construction or installation as required.  Whilst there are stations in southern Australia, northern Queensland is a data void area and a station here should increase the network's sensitivity to flashes in the south west Pacific/Australasian area.

Hello,
due to the growing number of stations all over the world I wondered how the corner points of "Europe" and "North America" - especially concerning the raw data provided - are defined.
Could it be that the coordinates are given by the maps (-> Real Time Maps --> Europe/ North America)?

best regards
PothThom

and thanks for your time...