I just checked your personal page.
WOW.
Too late tonight to read all of that, but I plan to later.
I did note the link on tracking thunderstorms.
When I quit there was a gadget whose name I can’t recall right now, but it tracked lightning discharges and presented their location on a 360 degree instrument.
Several of the guys that flew off my home base had it along with radar.
I stuck with radar. I have often thought it would be fun to get an old one and set it up on the farm so as to track bad storms.
But too much trouble and any thunderstorm is a bad storm. It only takes one strike. That is one game where you don’t get three.
re: “I just checked your personal page.”
And then there’s my QRZ.com page (that shall remain undisclosed) :)