Re: Radio Frequency of Lightning?

[Joel Baumbaugh <baumbaug@nosc.mil>]

	Well, this interested "me", so I'll assume that others have an interest...

	According to an Electromagnetic Spectrum Chart I have (Westinghouse),
radiation caused by lightning is between 800 Hz and 8 KHz (a wavelength
between 10E4 and 10E6 meters)- the chart calls them "whistlers"... (this is
below AM broadcasting channels which are commonly 535 KHz- 1605 KHz and
navigation frequencies which go all the way down to 10 kHz).  

	I'd imagine that there are a LOT of resonance frequencies created by
something of that POWER...

	Joel Baumbaugh (baumbaug@nosc.mil)
	SSC-SD

	Yes, my opinion only...


At 12:16 PM 2/17/99 -0600, you wrote:
>A colleague and I were discussing lightning when it was mentioned that
>there is a specific frequency that you can "listen-in" (using a ham radio
>rig) to all of the lightning strikes currently happening around the world.
>What is that frequency?
>
>I am posting this for Jim Kurucz.  You can respond to him at kurucz@ohio.edu
>
>Thanks for any help!
>
>Alan Watts
>
>
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