Recent content by Elvin Wilkerson

Okay, fine, I dropped your nugget just awhile ago at the porcelain throne! Really, man, you appear to me to be the troll here.

Strikefinder can also be slaved or one can add the optional Strikefinder electronic gyro/compass/accelerometer.

That 'seems to' will get you knocked out of the sky by big storms hiding right directly behind small storms. Strike finder will tell you how much lightning is there. RADAR will only tell you there's something there and not even how severe it is.

As I said regarding RADAR, trusting in RADAR will still get you killed. While installing, maintaining, and repairing RADAR, Stormscopes, and Strikefinders, I got to listen to too many pilots tell of hair-raising adventures with weather RADAR. Go down in flames if you want to. IDGAS!

Not worth a response.

What other kind of RADAR do you think there is other than the type used to make X-rays. Yes Doppler RADAR of the exact same type as is used for DME and transponders, because the exact type of RADAR is used in both, although the principle can be equally applied to the German system which used the...

You're wrong. Maybe dead wrong if you continue to think that way! BTW, all lightning detectors are not equal. For example Stormscope plots ionospheric bounce as if it were real and it will not plot cloud-to-cloud strikes AT ALL!

ALL RADAR. I am a US military trained RADAR technician - 35L20.

I would have the grounds rechecked at both ends of the antenna coax and recheck the antenna grounding.

Simple point: it is not an antenna - it is a sensor array containing three antennas and some IC's.

RADAR is severely attenuated by rain. I would never depend upon RADAR! More than 90% of Strikefinders are installed on GA aircraft.

Stormscopes cannot detect cloud-to-cloud strikes and they will receive ionospheric bounce noise and display it as real data. Suddenly you have a storm off stbd when you can see CAVU.

Something newer than what? A Strikefinder will do the lightning strike assessment better than anything else on the market! There is absolutely nothing else with which to compare it. Stormscope has never been able to distinguish between a real strike and an ionospheric bounce and it can't detect...