{"id":6214,"date":"2014-10-01T22:55:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T12:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2014\/10\/01\/hunting-for-sprites\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T20:33:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T10:33:34","slug":"hunting-for-sprites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2014\/10\/01\/hunting-for-sprites\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunting for Sprites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"media-viewer-candidate\" data-mediaviewer-caption=\"Dancing sprites, majestic emanations of light that flash for an instant high above the thunderheads, over Colorado.\" data-mediaviewer-credit=\"Thomas Ashcraft\" data-mediaviewer-src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/30SPRITE1-superJumbo.jpg\" height=\"266\" itemid=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/30SPRITE1-master1050.jpg\" itemprop=\"url\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/30SPRITE1-master1050.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p> <b>Don&#8217;t let the comments about &#8220;positive lightning&#8221; and &#8220;gravity wave&#8221; cameras turn you off &#8212; in the world of meteorology, these terms seem to make sense (but I had to do some Googling). The New York Times article on this topic is very interesting: <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/09\/30\/science\/on-the-hunt-for-a-sprite-on-a-midsummers-night.html?_r=0\"><b>http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/09\/30\/science\/on-the-hunt-for-a-sprite-on-a-midsummers-night.html?_r=0 <\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p> Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a> Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke\">http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/a> Our Book Store: <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20\">http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t let the comments about &#8220;positive lightning&#8221; and &#8220;gravity wave&#8221; cameras turn you off &#8212; in the world of meteorology, these terms seem to make sense (but I had to do some Googling). The New York Times article on this topic is very interesting: http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/09\/30\/science\/on-the-hunt-for-a-sprite-on-a-midsummers-night.html?_r=0 Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221; http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2014\/10\/01\/hunting-for-sprites\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hunting for Sprites&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,289],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lightning","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6217,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6214\/revisions\/6217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}