Are there any hams on this sub who are involved with the lightning project "Blitzortu

[charlotteabrams]

Are there any hams on this sub who are involved with the lightning project "Blitzortung?"

I continually monitor BLITZORTUNG.ORG because lightning in Utah can pop up very strong and very quickly in the summer. My question is: are there any hams that are involved with this system to receive and report lightning strikes, anywhere in the world. Is the board difficult to populate, and does it require any surface mount components? What about the receiving antenna...I see a lot of variations and wonder which type has shown the best success. My QTH is only two miles west of the Wasatch Front...part of the Rocky Mountains. I'm at 4400 feet and the mountains go to about 7500 feet, so there is the possibility that I might not be able to "see" lightning to the east of me. Thanks for any advice or ideas.

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Copied / duplicate message - are you a real person or an AI bot?
https://forum.blitzortung.org/showthread...8#pid26068

[Eric.Wouters]

not a bot, a spammer

they use some hidden links, I take about 10 a week out of the forum. They first add some post with nothing in and come back later to add it sneaky and format it invisible like white text or the final point of a sentence. Or they use their profile to add links to some other site (backlinking)

for the record, the backlinks from profiles are 'dead' ducks so don't waste your and my time with this childish behavior.
In this case I let the post with taking out the link you see in atached image, but user is again blacklisted.

   

[cutty]

not a bot, a spammer

they use some hidden links, I take about 10 a week out of the forum. They first add some post with nothing in and come back later to add it sneaky and format it invisible like white text or the final point of a sentence. Or they use their profile to add links to some other site (backlinking)

for the record, the backlinks from profiles are 'dead' ducks so don't waste your and my time with this childish behavior.
In this case I let the post with taking out the link you see in atached image, but user is again blacklisted.

Yeah, they waste a lot of our time... they're so frequent we virtually have to examine every new post... and check every suspicious post for possible backlink in their profile.  PITA and a waste of time...
So far, just in 2024, couple of hundred banned id's alone... 
and this DOESN'T count questionable AI crap, and others we might have missed....
...especially if they've inserted a link in a quoted post ...
Good Job Eric! Stay on it... less work for me et.al.

[Eric.Wouters]

Good Job Eric! Stay on it... less work for me et.al.

Since we are on opposite sides of the pond we cover almost 24/24 

[cutty]

Good Job Eric! Stay on it... less work for me et.al.

Since we are on opposite sides of the pound we cover almost 24/24 

...and my water dish is empty, and I've got fleas here on my side of the pound... bark bark... .