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Article #21510Re: lightning
From: John Nagle
Date: Sat, 27 May 1989 16:08
Date: Sat, 27 May 1989 16:08
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The Stormscope is an old idea, dating back to at least the 1950s.
The basic concept is simple; there are two antennas, 90 degrees apart,
and you take the intensity of static bursts received on each, treat this
as a vector, and plot. There's some way, which escapes me, to tell which
quadrant the source is in. Early systems used a long-persistence CRT
to display the data; modern systems are digital. Construction articles
appeared in various electronics publications in the 1970s.
John Nagle
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!ames!apple!well!nagle From: nagle@well.UUCP (John Nagle) Newsgroups: sci.electronics,sci.physics Subject: Re: lightning Message-ID: <11866@well.UUCP> Date: 27 May 89 16:08:52 GMT References: <583@coplex.UUCP> <512@atlas.tegra.UUCP> Reply-To: nagle@well.UUCP (John Nagle) Lines: 10