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From: Piotr Mlynarski <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, 26 November, 2010 20:35:32
Subject: Re: LF: Alpha transmissions

Dave Pick pisze:
> Dear all.
> I've had a query from an amateur who is studying the Russian Alpha transmissions. He would like to contact others who are using software to get a positional fix by comparing extracting the phase information, or similar experiments.
>
> 73
> Dave
> G3YXM
>
Hello Dave,
although it is not a precise answer to the problem mentioned by the friend of yours i have just thought he could visit a webpage devoted to lightning  strike radars (homebuilt):
http://members.home.nl/fkooiman/lightning/
he should go to section 7 ( manual and documentation); find and read a survey article written by John Silver ( likely,  UK based fellow as it follows from his e-mail address)
Mr Silver mentions a software which is capable by special time synchronization routines and triangulation methods to  make a positional fix of the ligntning etc..
a link to software developers is also given so i think he might have got a nice start to his specific issues with alfa stns ..
there is also a similar page: http://users.edpnet.be/DanielV37/Detecteur3/  dealing with the same problems
BTW .. those antennae and amplifiers built for lightning radar purposes are within the range of 10-11 kHz so "Dreamers" should also look into this at least to see really nice pictures of detected strikes..

i hope it will bring some help.. yours,  Piotr, sq7mpj

qth: Lodz/jo91rs/