@mwaters,
I tend to disagree with your statement. If the two H antennas are oriented at 90 degrees and one sferic arrives that gives a maximum signal in one channel, then the signal in the other, perpendicular channel would be zero, but a stroke should be registered. Just at the moment, my station is receiving a lot of signals from a direction such that only one H channel gets a signal, and looking in the list of registered strokes a lot turn up with only one H channel. Just have a look at the image below.
Of course there are others (second image), where all channels are involved, but both H channels are not required.
I tend to disagree with your statement. If the two H antennas are oriented at 90 degrees and one sferic arrives that gives a maximum signal in one channel, then the signal in the other, perpendicular channel would be zero, but a stroke should be registered. Just at the moment, my station is receiving a lot of signals from a direction such that only one H channel gets a signal, and looking in the list of registered strokes a lot turn up with only one H channel. Just have a look at the image below.
Of course there are others (second image), where all channels are involved, but both H channels are not required.
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