Amateur lightning detection network for Europe looking for participants.
 

My name is Frank Kooiman and I am looking for amateur meteorologists who
would like to put up a lightning detection site that operates on a 24/7
basis.
My location is Hengelo in the Netherlands, Best locations for future would
be in England in cornwall, Scotland in Edinbourgh or in Norway.

My home build equipment is very low cost ( 50 euro ) and has a range of over
2500 km ( whole of Europe and parts of Africa and Asia ).

I am preparing a site

http://members.home.nl/fkooiman/lightning

where you can find information about the lightning detection site.


Happy New Year

Frank Kooiman

Amateur lightning detection network for Europe looking for participants.
 

"Frank Kooiman" wrote in message
...
My name is Frank Kooiman and I am looking for amateur meteorologists who
would like to put up a lightning detection site that operates on a 24/7
basis.
My location is Hengelo in the Netherlands, Best locations for future would
be in England in cornwall, Scotland in Edinbourgh or in Norway.

My home build equipment is very low cost ( 50 euro ) and has a range of
over
2500 km ( whole of Europe and parts of Africa and Asia ).

I am preparing a site

http://members.home.nl/fkooiman/lightning

where you can find information about the lightning detection site.


Happy New Year

Frank Kooiman






Frank see my previous post on copper lightening rods up everyone's left
leg - this could be a winner.

Amateur lightning detection network for Europe looking for participants.
 

Did you know there is already a good 24/7 lightning detector on the Isle of
Wight?

http://www.isleofwightweather.co.uk/live_storm_data.htm

Curious. They show a fresh -CG lightning strike in the English channel...
Also I have found a few occasions when thunderstorms fail to get detected.
But the owner seemed very friendly when I told him about a London
thunderstorm that failed to show up. I think if a stronger closer signal is
present it can mask TS's behind it if I understand right. So perhaps it is
good to have other similar detectors elsewhere to compare with. Perhaps they
could even link up to triangulate and more accurately detect TS's?

Also Wetterzentrale also detect lightning:

http://217.160.75.104/wz/pics/Rsfloc2.gif - They also show low level TS
activity in the channel. So perhaps IOW's -CG wasn't a false signal? (I've
not looked at the satpics yet today as I've been out).

-Mike

"Frank Kooiman" wrote in message
...
My name is Frank Kooiman and I am looking for amateur meteorologists who
would like to put up a lightning detection site that operates on a 24/7
basis.
My location is Hengelo in the Netherlands, Best locations for future would
be in England in cornwall, Scotland in Edinbourgh or in Norway.

My home build equipment is very low cost ( 50 euro ) and has a range of
over
2500 km ( whole of Europe and parts of Africa and Asia ).

I am preparing a site

http://members.home.nl/fkooiman/lightning

where you can find information about the lightning detection site.


Happy New Year

Frank Kooiman

Amateur lightning detection network for Europe looking for participants.
 

TerminalVelocity wrote:
Did you know there is already a good 24/7 lightning detector on the Isle of
Wight?

http://www.isleofwightweather.co.uk/live_storm_data.htm

Curious. They show a fresh -CG lightning strike in the English channel...
Also I have found a few occasions when thunderstorms fail to get detected.
But the owner seemed very friendly when I told him about a London
thunderstorm that failed to show up. I think if a stronger closer signal is
present it can mask TS's behind it if I understand right. So perhaps it is
good to have other similar detectors elsewhere to compare with. Perhaps they
could even link up to triangulate and more accurately detect TS's?

Also Wetterzentrale also detect lightning:

http://217.160.75.104/wz/pics/Rsfloc2.gif - They also show low level TS
activity in the channel. So perhaps IOW's -CG wasn't a false signal? (I've
not looked at the satpics yet today as I've been out).

-Mike

"Frank Kooiman" wrote in message
...

My name is Frank Kooiman and I am looking for amateur meteorologists who
would like to put up a lightning detection site that operates on a 24/7
basis.
My location is Hengelo in the Netherlands, Best locations for future would
be in England in cornwall, Scotland in Edinbourgh or in Norway.

My home build equipment is very low cost ( 50 euro ) and has a range of
over
2500 km ( whole of Europe and parts of Africa and Asia ).

I am preparing a site

http://members.home.nl/fkooiman/lightning

where you can find information about the lightning detection site.


Happy New Year

Frank Kooiman








And one in Wincanton, Somerset

http://www.wincantonweather.co.uk/StormVue.html

that is showing some lightning in the channel
Regards
Alan
www.wincantonweather.co.uk

Amateur lightning detection network for Europe looking for participants.
 

Steve's is at Burton on Trent Staffordshire
http://www.ukspeedtraps.co.uk/weather/light0900.htm

He has on another page the following links
http://www.estofex.org - European Storm Forecast Experiment, area of probable storms
http://www.wetteronline.de/eurobli.htm - 30 minute update lightning data
http://www.strikestaruk.com - new service for 2 minute triangulated lighting data
from Boltek lightning detectors
and as he says there is http://www.meteorologica.info/freedata_lightning.htm

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