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Old August 20th 04, 10:16 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
Steve - www.ukspeedtraps.co.uk Steve - www.ukspeedtraps.co.uk is offline
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Default Meteorologica lightning detection accuracy?

"Steve Loft" wrote in message
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zaax wrote:

The one near Sandhurst seem more accurate.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/zaax/lighting.htm


The Sandhurst one never seems to show anything in this area - perhaps
300 miles is beyond its operational range?
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Steve Loft, Wanlockhead, Dumfriesshire. 1417ft ASL
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I find that water effects the ranging of the units. Some storms my plots are
almost spot on and others are quite out for a while and then as you detect
more strikes it gets better but never spot on. The software helps,
Meteorologica use Nexstorm and I have as well in the past, I moved over to
L2K and find it better in some ways on its plots. You will never get spot on
with a single antenna system. Its best to use several sites and compare the
positions and get an average.

I know some places combine data to get better results, maybe the Boltek
users on here should work out a good way to combine data to help us all.

Steve
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