I have a question, and I don't mean to be antagonistic.  I am a sailor. I have been sailing around the globe for many years and I try to use all of the available information to me to inform my decision making.  In the tropics,  particularly near the equator, lightning is a very real risk.  I have had three strikes within 200m of me, and a direct strike is on the order of $50,000USD and 1 year of time to repair.  I know four friend boats that have been hit.  

My question is this - and please if you have something to contribute, talk about independent observations to calculated results.  Not about "here's the math for the calculated result"

How is  accuracy measured with this platform?  In simple terms - if there is a set of data that represents real actual strikes  or cloud-to-cloud - position and time that we've used to validate?

hello - my name is Jon. Im based in Kelso, Townsville Australia - Im wondering if the TSV based detector owner could get in touch with me. I would love to build a detector/station but dont know where to start. Im a (very) amateur weather follower. The station is Detector No.:1527 User No.:1310 Cranbrook Townsville Queensland. My email is deesalkelly@gmail.com ph 0436111086 cheers - Jon Kelly

The signal data is still not updating on the online panel. It has been more than a week since the station was started in the new city, and even though winter has already begun, we are still receiving many signals from distant lightning strikes. But for some reason, I still don’t get any updates in the online signal and statistics panel. At the same time, the station is working and participating in the overall calculations.
I tried turning the station off for a while, but that didn’t help. I also tried deleting the station and registering it again, but that was also without result.


user id = 2463
station id = 2891
Thank you.

Greetings!

Station 3225 here. Would it be possible to upgrade my status to "participant"? Thank you in advance; I'm looking forward to contributing to the network.

~ RockWoodson

I volunteer for a non-profit supporting high-school soccer, have been looking for lightning strike data for a very small area on a small set of dates.  Is this data available anywhere?  At every turn I find "Access to this data is restricted" or data only available to insurance companies subscribing to a service. 

The data I'm looking for is for is bounded by this GPS rectangle (45.09306, -93.3464), (45.09128, -93.3431) on these three dates (2025/07/15, 2025/07/28, 2025/08/09) UTC-5.  I'm trying to figure out whether some audio problems we have been having are related to a lightning strike or just bad service from our wiring guy.

Is this data available somewhere?

I run station 2834 and the Stats web page shows my Region Europe 1. However it also shows stats for North America. This is showing the same graphs and data as for Europe 1.

How do I remove the stats/graphs for other regions as they are not wanted ?

Thanks.

On the web, it states the following:
Settings¶
Main¶
DSP Frequency Filter
The DSP filter will be able to check frequencies and their bandwidth in every triggered signal. This needs a lot of CPU power.
Work in progress

The DSP filter is currently only analyzing the signal, but does not filter it. It will be implemented in a future firmware 11.x version.

Has this been filtering option been made functional in version 11.0b3?  If not is thee an estimate of when it will be implemented?

Hello,
my close friend sent me one of his stations (System Blue, ID 2891). Now I am the new owner, and the station is installed at a new location in another city.
At this new location, the station covers distant forest areas of Siberia that were previously not monitored.
One issue I have noticed: it seems that my station’s signals are not being taken into account by the server, even though it is shown as active on the map and clearly detects lightning strikes correctly.
I have also updated the station to FW 11.0b3.

user id = 2463
station id = 2891
region = Ozeania1, Asia1, Japan1, Japan2

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I’ve spent the last couple weeks in Thailand, particularly Pattaya area And there seems to be a huge hole in detection over the Gulf of Thailand. Sitting on the beach looking west almost nightly, you can see cloud to cloud lightning Which could be very far because there is no sound But on the map, even 500 miles away there are no hits. Furthermore, almost daily there is cloud to ground strikes with no hit.

Hello everyone,
I am curious if placing the Blitzortung device in a dense urban area (many tall buildings, dense electrical system, strong interference) has a significant impact on the accuracy or sensitivity of lightning detection. Does the urban environment cause greater errors than placing the device in a rural or suburban area?
Has anyone on the forum tried to compare data between these two environments?