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Scott Collis, one of the leaders of the SAGE project was on local public television August 12th to discuss the devastating derecho storms that hit the Chicago area. You can catch the story here: Aug-11-PBS Scott’s explanation of the storm start at about minute 19:00

Scott Collis and Jim Olds have been exploring how software-defined radios could be used to improved lightning detection.  They have been tinkering at home with several technologies and their hackery was picked up by a few websites: Analyzing Lightning Discharges with an RTL-SDR and the Sage Network Lightning Analysis With Your SDR