When my house gets sucked up and away by a tornado, po little doggy and
I are Goners!

GTT, Gone To Texas.
cuhulin

On May 29, 8:49 am, dxAce wrote:


When the TV gets sucked out the window there's a tornado very close.

Duh!

No wait!

It might be The Invisible Man on a crime Spree !

On May 27, 4:48*pm, David wrote:
- header says it all

Have a good receiver

Have a decent antenna..

have a thunder storm in the area

- any responses would be appreciated
Tks

You don't really need a good receiver or a decent antenna to pick up
the noise from thunderstorm lightning. Indeed I would not risk good
equipment for such a venture. Any cheapo AM radio will get lots of
static. Just pick a frequency.

Your question is somewhat ambiguous. I assume you want to hear the
lightning and not literally pick up the strike by becoming a lightning
rod of sorts.

Radioguy wrote:
On May 27, 4:48 pm, David wrote:
- header says it all

Have a good receiver

Have a decent antenna..

have a thunder storm in the area

- any responses would be appreciated
Tks

You don't really need a good receiver or a decent antenna to pick up
the noise from thunderstorm lightning. Indeed I would not risk good
equipment for such a venture. Any cheapo AM radio will get lots of
static. Just pick a frequency.

Your question is somewhat ambiguous. I assume you want to hear the
lightning and not literally pick up the strike by becoming a lightning
rod of sorts.
I hear storms 700 miles away on the HF bands. I don't think I'm risking
anything.

On May 31, 6:10*am, Dave wrote:
Radioguy wrote:
On May 27, 4:48 pm, David wrote:
- header says it all

Have a good receiver

Have a decent antenna..

have a thunder storm in the area

- any responses would be appreciated
Tks

You don't really need a good receiver or a decent antenna to pick up
the noise from thunderstorm lightning. *Indeed I would not risk good
equipment for such a venture. *Any cheapo AM radio will get lots of
static. *Just pick a frequency.

Your question is somewhat ambiguous. *I assume you want to hear the
lightning and not literally pick up the strike by becoming a lightning
rod of sorts.

- I hear storms 700 miles away on the HF bands.
-*I don't think I'm risking anything.

Dave,

Gee Wow 700 Miles away would be about a Half-a-Millionth
the RFI/EMF present at 1 Mile away from you.

I can usually hear most of the Lightning Strikes along
the Sierra Nevadas from up at the Lake Tahoe; down to
Mount Whitney; and across to Mount Diablo.
http://www.sierranevadaphotos.com/ge...getation_l.jpg

If you can see the Flash and Hear the Clash on the Radio
at the same time. It's time to think urgently about personal
safety.

FWIW - Remember seeing a TV program about a Forestry
Fire Lookout Tower that was mostly made of Metal. The
Fire Lookout Lady had a Wooden High Chair that had it's
Legs set in Heavy Thick Glasses. At the sign of nearby
Lightning Up-in-the-Chair she went. Be Safe Not Sorry [.]

Don't Be One of the Annual 80+ Statistic :
Who are Kill by Lightning.

being safe is acting safely and doing safety ~ RHF

On May 31, 9:10*am, Dave wrote:
Radioguy wrote:
On May 27, 4:48 pm, David wrote:
- header says it all

Have a good receiver

Have a decent antenna..

have a thunder storm in the area

- any responses would be appreciated
Tks

You don't really need a good receiver or a decent antenna to pick up
the noise from thunderstorm lightning. *Indeed I would not risk good
equipment for such a venture. *Any cheapo AM radio will get lots of
static. *Just pick a frequency.

Your question is somewhat ambiguous. *I assume you want to hear the
lightning and not literally pick up the strike by becoming a lightning
rod of sorts.

I hear storms 700 miles away on the HF bands. *I don't think I'm risking
anything.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

The O.P wasn't asking about storms 700 miles away. He wanted to "DX"
storms a couple of miles away.

Radioguy wrote:
On May 31, 9:10 am, Dave wrote:
Radioguy wrote:
On May 27, 4:48 pm, David wrote:
- header says it all
Have a good receiver
Have a decent antenna..
have a thunder storm in the area
- any responses would be appreciated
Tks
You don't really need a good receiver or a decent antenna to pick up
the noise from thunderstorm lightning. Indeed I would not risk good
equipment for such a venture. Any cheapo AM radio will get lots of
static. Just pick a frequency.
Your question is somewhat ambiguous. I assume you want to hear the
lightning and not literally pick up the strike by becoming a lightning
rod of sorts.
I hear storms 700 miles away on the HF bands. I don't think I'm risking
anything.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

The O.P wasn't asking about storms 700 miles away. He wanted to "DX"
storms a couple of miles away.
We don't have electrical storms around here.

Bob Dobbs wrote:
Dave wrote:
I hear storms 700 miles away on the HF bands. I don't think I'm risking
anything.

Something to help determine where the activity might be coming from;
http://tinyurl.com/25nf7h

Cool. Looks like the Rules Committee is getting thrashed.

On May 31, 1:03*pm, Bob Dobbs wrote:

Dave wrote:
- - I hear storms 700 miles away on the HF bands.
- - *I don't think I'm risking anything.

- Something to help determine where the activity
- might be coming from;
- http://tinyurl.com/25nf7h
-
- --
-
- Operator Bob
- Echo Charlie 42

OB - Nice Lightning Map Resource. ~ RHF

Vaisala - Free Lightning Explorer
http://thunderstorm.vaisala.com/explorer.html

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posted on Tue, 27 May 2008 13:48:14 -0700 (PDT), David wrote: Begin


- header says it all

Have a good receiver

Have a decent antenna..

have a thunder storm in the area

- any responses would be appreciated
Tks

I'd try a lower freq in AM mode, away from on-air stations.
IOW: Just out of band at the lower edge, maybe 520kcs AMBCB.
Also use as wide IF bandwidth as you have.

Also use a tube type radio... a lot of SS sets don't take kindly to
lightning, and can be destroyed by even a moderately close strike (I had one
give up the ghost from a strike about a mile away).