Re: lightning detection and mapping



In article <g5a49t113mm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 20:42:25 -0400 Hactar <ebenZEROONE@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

| Is there any native-to-Linux system for lightning detection and mapping?
| The last time I searched (a few months ago), the best I found was some
| software which ran through a sound card (good, I have an unused onboard
| card), used homemade antennas (OK), and ran in VB (definitely NOT OK).
| Is there anything better out now?

How would this do any triangulation?

You'd have to share data with a close-by person, presumably with a
common, highly accurate, timebase. Least, that's how another product I
looked at worked. Unfortunately, it used VB.

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century, which was an era dominated by the Goths, who lived in what we
now know as Poland." - from Nov. 1998 issue of Infosystems Executive.
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