Rich,
In this instance I wasn't going for lightning specifically. Generally
when lightning approaches I unlpug my radio observatory but in this case
I was in town when the storm happened and I was lucky that my arrays
were not hit. So this particular recording is kind of an anomaly but is
interesting for comparing lightning strength with solar burst strength.
The solar burst has more energy that the lightning in this case. I
think this is a rare recording.
I monitor the Sun (and Jupiter) at multiple frequencies from 50 MHz to
Message: 18.
Subject: 7 MHz with different radios and antennae cut per specific frequency.
22.2 MHz and 22.7 MHz are useful for Jupiter as well as the Sun. The
500 MHz separation in frequency between right and left channels gives a
spatiality to the reception especially when listening with headphones
because solar bursts generally pass from high to low frequency so will
hit 22.7 MHz then a split second later hit 22.2 MHz.
The recording is stereo based so as to accomodate the bilateral body
limitation of having two ears; two bio-ports into the central nervous
system.
Feel free to ask further if you want more details.
Thomas
Rich Peet wrote:
>
> Thanks for the post.
> I have seen little worked here on this group using HF noise
> translation. Yet, you will find people here that know the basics of
> what you are doing.
>
> We welcome more specifics on the "how to" level, and I wish to know
> why you choose 22mhz when most of lighting rf work is done a lot lower.
>
> I also have no cocept of what you are calling and capturing as stereo
> based, at a freq response captured.
>
> Thanks for the post and feel free to be more specific.
>
> DE
> KD0AG licensed "advanced" >36 years, with "signal One" gear and I
> still can hear and plan on that for many more years.
>
> Rich
>
> --- In
> <naturerecordists%40yahoogroups.com>, Thomas Ashcraft
> <> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On the theme of lightning :
> >
> > Part of my nature recording is capturing earth and solar system
> > phenomena using a variety of home-made instruments, some being
> > non-microphonal. Here is a stereophonic radiotelescope recording of a
> > strong lightning storm that gets momentarily overwhelmed by a powerful
> > solar radio burst.
> >
> > Recorded using two dipole antennas as sensors connected to two modified
> > shortwave radios tuned at slightly different frequencies to get a
> stereo
> > field. Audio captured into a panasonic stereo VHS recorder.
> >
> > http://www.heliotown.com/Specimen_June_21_2005.html
> <http://www.heliotown.com/Specimen_June_21_2005.html>
> >
> >
> > Thomas Ashcraft
> >
>
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