ChrisSmolinski

That reminds me of this video I shot of an LED connected to one of my antennas during a thunderstorm (sorry for the poor quality)

I'm 99 44/100 % convinced this bot script was the cause of the problem I was experiencing with several receivers not being available for use (since that problem went away when I started to block them).

I am not sure if this is related, but the radio related website https://www.hfunderground.com/board/ which I run was getting overrun with bots a few days ago. You get three chances to guess from where, and the first two don't count. Hundreds at a time, at one point I saw over 500. They have stopped, for now anyway, but I am seriously looking into figuring out how to geoblock China if it happens again. It's an ugly solution which I don't want to have to implement, but it's potentially an even uglier problem.

This is why we can't have nice things.

I have a different antenna on each KiwiSDR here, so perhaps they wanted to see how reception varied between antennas? Assuming they had some rational purpose in doing this, which might not be a valid assumption 😀