• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

Boltek StormTracker & LD-250 Lightning Detection

I can vouch for the StormTracker. I got it started out our school along with Lightning/2000 software. The only problem I have had with it is configuring ranging with distant vs overhead storms.

Chip
 
The range of the strikes is always going to have some degree of error with a single sensor system. You need to triangulate to get those plotted perfectly. I recommend using it with NexStorm. They have a network called StrikeStar that utilizes other NexStorm customers using Boltek products. By buying the NexStorm software you get free access to the networked strike data. It also has some cool contouring of your strike data to make it look like a nexrad radar product almost. Lots of other neat features too.
 
I have looked at that software before but with my limitations with departmental budgets and all, we are limited to what we already have. Plus I am out of of here in a month.

Either way, the software is still fairly decent after putting in many hours with storms in different directions to make it somewhat accurate. I enjoyed doing my work with the Boltek detector and even did research with it.

Chip
 
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