Using a PC sound card to receive VLF radio signals (lightning strike detection)

Yeah - a little bit of cleverness that exponetientates into a rather vast amount of cleverness. I am only getting into the LF and VLF receiver tech because where I live, thunderstorms can evolve out of a clear sky and be coming over zapping everything underneath them. I find it better to just run around unplugging everything - and to wait it out, until they pass. The weather radars are helpful, but so is a beside radio - running in AM with a clear space down low in the frequency band between stations - of which there are basically non left besides the community drive through town very short range AM stations.... usually run by cunts anyway.

@Life_N_Times_of_Shane_T_Hanson: It seems no matter where you go and what you do, these damn Cunts just show up! LOL! But these kinds of techniques will always be useful to have. By the looks of things, going analog seems like a safe bet...

Most of the rado frequency punch of a lightening strike is way below the AM band... in the 10 to 100 Khz frequency- so hooking up an antenna to a computers sound card is about as good as it gets in terms of simplicity and ease. Sure there are some really amazingly amazing software and interest groups and systems etc... but a simple "BZZZZTTTTT" over the raido suffices. The weather bureau tells me when the thunderstorms are likely to arrive and the weather radar shows me when and where they are, and what direction they are travelling - but these are things you kind of have to keep tuned into.... where as a receiver sits there using very little power and it's a 24/7 monitor, and when I hear the crackling of the lightening stikes then I can look up where it is and which way it's headed. I expect a 2 AM antenna set up 90* out of alignment with a sound card, or the miniature whip antenna, will work fine. As far as unplugging everything when a sizzler floats over - it takes 2 minutes to unpluge everything from the mains, and yet who in the hell can afford to replace it if there is a direct lightening strike, and in terms of earning capacity - say there is $1000 of damage, it only takes 2 minutes to unplug everything and 2 minutes to plug it all back in... can you earn $1000 in 4 minutes? Nope - I am unplugging.

Most of the rado frequency punch of a lightening strike is way below the AM band... in the 10 to 100 Khz frequency- so hooking up an antenna to a computers sound card is about as good as it gets in terms of simplicity and ease. Sure there are some really amazingly amazing software and interest groups and systems etc... but a simple "BZZZZTTTTT" over the raido suffices. The weather bureau tells me when the thunderstorms are likely to arrive and the weather radar shows me when and where they are, and what direction they are travelling - but these are things you kind of have to keep tuned into.... where as a receiver sits there using very little power and it's a 24/7 monitor, and when I hear the crackling of the lightening stikes then I can look up where it is and which way it's headed. I expect a 2 AM antenna set up 90* out of alignment with a sound card, or the miniature whip antenna, will work fine. As far as unplugging everything when a sizzler floats over - it takes 2 minutes to unpluge everything from the mains, and yet who in the hell can afford to replace it if there is a direct lightening strike, and in terms of earning capacity - say there is $1000 of damage, it only takes 2 minutes to unplug everything and 2 minutes to plug it all back in... can you earn $1000 in 4 minutes? Nope - I am unplugging.