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Java is required for image loop animation. Visit Sun's
www.java.com to download the latest
version.
A full complete
detailed StormTrac text report of current activity is also
available.
This lightning StormVue java display is updated continuously live from
data received by our detector. You can view two levels of zoom, as well
as review the last hour of strike history.
Astrogenic's
Nexstorm lightning display and analysis software provides the data this applet uses.
Our sensor, at the "+", is in New Port Richey, Florida at 28.15.55N
82.41.20W around 20ft AGL.
The hardware we use is a Boltek
LD-250 Lightning Detection System. The LD-250 model does not provide
strike classification, so all strikes seen will appear as negative cloud to
ground hits.
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Some details about the hardware that powers this system and its
installation...
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LD250 brain box: Processes strikes heard by the sensor antenna and processes that
information into a usable stream of serial data. We use a Lantronix
WiBox
to get this serial data from a location away from any electrical generated noise in
our back yard to the server running Nexstorm over 300ft away. This also provides
for isolation, with the antenna being 20ft in the air. The LD250 and WiBox are
actually solar & battery powered.
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GPS Antenna: Receives time from the atomic clocks on
the GPS satellites giving accurate time stamps of the strikes heard for
StrikeStar.
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Sensor Antenna: Listens for broadband noise, the same heard on AM radio
during a storm. This dual loop antenna is essentially a direction finder.
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Our Installation: This shows our home brewed PVC pipe antenna mount &
protector. It's painted light brown to blend in with rest of the back yard.
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Some very important lightning facts that you may not know...
If you can see it or hear it, lightning can hit you. Find shelter now.
Lightning is the No. 2 weather killer in the US (behind floods).
Every 5 seconds between flash and boom is a mile's distance from you.
Under ideal conditions, lightning's thunder can be heard 12 miles away.
Lightning is really no wider than a few inches.
All thunderstorms produce lightning.
These images are not to be used for protection of life and
property!
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This detector covers a large area of Central Florida. Including Pasco,
Pinellas, Hillsborough, Manatee, Sarasota, Desoto, Hardee, Polk, Lake, Sumter,
Hernando and Citrus Counties. The range goes beyond these areas, however is
still limited to an effective 250 mile radius.
Nexstorm Console -
StormVue Java -
WASP Networked -
StrikeStar Network -
SPARK Mobile
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aprsfl.net © 2003-2009 Dave Anderson KG4YZY & Sean Fleeman N4SCF
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