On Thursday, 14 April 2016 13:41:27 UTC+1, Richard Dixon wrote:
Whitstable has awful digital reception (any idea you radio experts on how to complain about this?!) so I've gone back to good old standard radio signals.

One thing I'd forgotten that on a thundery day such as this how LW picks up lightning strikes. Something I remember spotting as a child which used to up the excitement. Can't remember what the range is for detection of strikes on LW but the storms of Suffolk/Cambridgeshire are coming through loud and clear...

Richard

Yes, LW is best sferics detector. I can remember trying to listen to the Shipping Forecast at 1155 pm on LW on 12/13 June 1964. A spectacular thunderstorm was in progress and the programme was almost completely inaudible against the continuous racket. This was local, of course but much more distant storms could be picked up.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.