when I am looking at the whole US on the http://www.strikestarus.com/ site all I look at is the different colored + signs those are the actual strikes and their color codes are in the upper right hand corner of the map closer to white you get, the worse it gets
just for this question: 'where are the storms bad enough' that either, I can't hear through the static crashes or the receiving stations can't hear me through those crashes all I need to do when I look at the maps info is how far out will my 160m hops be I know from the past I generally get 70% of my contacts out about 1000km (621mi) 20% out about 1500km (939mi) 10% are the rar ones out 2000km (1242mi) or more so I look out in about a 600mi circle and see if any rx stations are clear of strikes around them that might kill their ability to hear my peanut whistle.... call me lazy, but I don't enjoy 14 hours under the cans with lots of crashes in my ears and no Q's to show for it starts to fall in the 'I'd rather be beating my head against the wall' category I know, just no dang dedication at all from us 65yr old youngin's these days -- GB & 73 K5OAI Sam Morgan On 6/16/2012 8:29 AM, Mike Waters wrote: > That site looks interesting, but all the little colored hollow squares > scattered all over the map confused me. I thought they were lightning > strikes, but from what I can tell, they are simply the locations of > different types of sensors. I wish there was a way to disable their display > and show only lightning strikes. > > Looking beyond that, there were also differences between the lightning > locations from the Intellicast site. I'm not sure what to think about that. > > 73, Mike > www.w0btu.com > > > On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 9:42 PM, Sam Morgan<k5oai....@gmail.com> wrote: > >> this site works pretty well: >> http://www.strikestarus.com/ >> > _______________________________________________ > UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK > _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK