2024-06-19, 17:24
What makes me wonder is your time spent online: 2:17 minutes. This is quite less for someone who continually monitors blitzortung.org.
If you are serious, you may want to read this: https://www.blitzortung.org/en/cover_your_area.php and this: https://docs.lightningmaps.org/hardware/...tors/blue/
There is a new board on the way, the System Mini (PCB 22.2). I asume it is as it was with the System Blue as well: SMD parts are assembled, wired parts are to be soldered by the station owner. The Mini is smaller and has less parts than the Blue shown in the second link.
Regarding antennas there are basically two options for the Mini:
- ferrite rod; most buy them ready made
- loop antenna; imho very simple and better in the performance. But you will read other optinions as well.
My Mini has two poor mans loops. Just a standard home electric wire bent to a circle and the ends connected with a screw terminal. This copper ring passes through a small ring ferrite as a transformer. The transformer is connected to the pre-amplifier. The orientation of one loop is N/S, the other E/W.
If you are serious, you may want to read this: https://www.blitzortung.org/en/cover_your_area.php and this: https://docs.lightningmaps.org/hardware/...tors/blue/
There is a new board on the way, the System Mini (PCB 22.2). I asume it is as it was with the System Blue as well: SMD parts are assembled, wired parts are to be soldered by the station owner. The Mini is smaller and has less parts than the Blue shown in the second link.
Regarding antennas there are basically two options for the Mini:
- ferrite rod; most buy them ready made
- loop antenna; imho very simple and better in the performance. But you will read other optinions as well.
My Mini has two poor mans loops. Just a standard home electric wire bent to a circle and the ends connected with a screw terminal. This copper ring passes through a small ring ferrite as a transformer. The transformer is connected to the pre-amplifier. The orientation of one loop is N/S, the other E/W.