In the late 70s I worked for Dytronics Company which produced the Stormscope for light aircraft. I was responsible for production testing and calibration of the receiver section for two years. Interesting design using loop and sense antenna and op-amps in three channels. X and Y to establish bearing and the sense channel to cancel the false bearing. Displayed 256 dots on the screen with a FIFO memory. All done without a computer chip anywhere in sight.
I moved on to another area of electronics so I lost contact with the current state of lighting detection. With todays computers and DSP some very interesting devices can be designed or have been...
Mike
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Originally Posted by AlmostHandy
I've recently gotten back into prototyping electronics. I had forgotten how much fun it was.
Anyways, I was searching for a ham/scanner relevant system to construct, (looking mostly at amps and simple crystal receivers and such) and ran across several designs for Lightning Detectors. It seems like a cool concept, and was wondering if anyone has ever used one, either homemade or commercially built. What is your experience with it?
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