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From: nagle@well.UUCP (John Nagle)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics,sci.physics
Subject: Re: lightning
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Date: 27 May 89 16:08:52 GMT
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Reply-To: nagle@well.UUCP (John Nagle)
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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