I'm thinking you want to know if it's worthwhile to install an installation in a low density area,.... based on
"Where (geographically) would you expect the greatest improvement of accuracy (closer to the new detector)? "
now, if you're wanting to determine if a strike can be located within, say, 30 km of the 'new' receiver...
IF strikes are NOT being located presently, it's NOT likely that your new station would help...
The reason:
Impulse Energy discharges in a typically optimized station within 30km (18mi) are dubious at best... there is TOO MUCH activity, noise, etc in a nearby cell
to be able to separate an actual impulse from junk, for the 'local' station. The receiver MAY in fact send signals, however they're of such 'confused' state that the computing server cannot isolate and correlate a specific impulse with other stations' signals. In fact, that's why each controller has 'interference modes'... too many signals withing a certain time frame, for example. Remember, Blitzortung is a LOCATING network... the criteria for locating is more advanced than just 'detecting', or approximating a 'distance'... as in some 'lighting detector' devices.
however, beyond some 'choose your own' distance, say 50km, the new station could be invaluable in locating strikes that previously would NOT register.,..
the new locator now becoming the 'necessary' 4th detector, or 8th, whatever the 'paradigm' is asking for, for that specific 'computing assignment' region would be...
ASSUMING the settings on the 'new' station would NOT send it into an 'interference' mode. Where it would NOT be sending signals....
The JSON data would give you some information. If it's valid for what your asking, I doubt....
Because you seem to be asking a crystal ball what would happen 'if'...
Maybe I'm not thinking on the same plane you are... ???
BUT...
SOMEBODY HAS TO BE FIRST IN AN AREA!
Back when I got the 3rd red system in North America, a buddy named Don F and I were competing to see who could get the first location greater than 600Miles!!!! At the time the other systems were all older basic 'Green Systems'... then we watched the network grow...
Then came Blue, and I was lucky enough to have the first in North America... by that time the region was dense enough there was no competition,.,... and we'd actually, by that time, had a good idea of how the network worked.... so I have by now, 4 systems... two reds, two blue 'max'... one or two of them are generally at the top of any station list, or near the top, during 'season', so they're pretty closely optimized even though they have similar, or dramatically different H and E arrays... That means nothing, in a 'dense' network... a nanosecond or a microvolt can mean a big difference when a lot of stations record the same impulse.
In a very low density area, a nanosecond or a microvolt can be the difference in being one of the 'detectors'... and actually recording a 'strike' in a previously 'barren' area... . Yeah, the accuracy might be poor, and the 'strike' count relatively low... >
BUT SOMEBODY HAS TO BE THE FIRST....!
Try the station there... what do you have to lose?
"Where (geographically) would you expect the greatest improvement of accuracy (closer to the new detector)? "
now, if you're wanting to determine if a strike can be located within, say, 30 km of the 'new' receiver...
IF strikes are NOT being located presently, it's NOT likely that your new station would help...
The reason:
Impulse Energy discharges in a typically optimized station within 30km (18mi) are dubious at best... there is TOO MUCH activity, noise, etc in a nearby cell
to be able to separate an actual impulse from junk, for the 'local' station. The receiver MAY in fact send signals, however they're of such 'confused' state that the computing server cannot isolate and correlate a specific impulse with other stations' signals. In fact, that's why each controller has 'interference modes'... too many signals withing a certain time frame, for example. Remember, Blitzortung is a LOCATING network... the criteria for locating is more advanced than just 'detecting', or approximating a 'distance'... as in some 'lighting detector' devices.
however, beyond some 'choose your own' distance, say 50km, the new station could be invaluable in locating strikes that previously would NOT register.,..
the new locator now becoming the 'necessary' 4th detector, or 8th, whatever the 'paradigm' is asking for, for that specific 'computing assignment' region would be...
ASSUMING the settings on the 'new' station would NOT send it into an 'interference' mode. Where it would NOT be sending signals....
The JSON data would give you some information. If it's valid for what your asking, I doubt....
Because you seem to be asking a crystal ball what would happen 'if'...
Maybe I'm not thinking on the same plane you are... ???
BUT...
SOMEBODY HAS TO BE FIRST IN AN AREA!
Back when I got the 3rd red system in North America, a buddy named Don F and I were competing to see who could get the first location greater than 600Miles!!!! At the time the other systems were all older basic 'Green Systems'... then we watched the network grow...
Then came Blue, and I was lucky enough to have the first in North America... by that time the region was dense enough there was no competition,.,... and we'd actually, by that time, had a good idea of how the network worked.... so I have by now, 4 systems... two reds, two blue 'max'... one or two of them are generally at the top of any station list, or near the top, during 'season', so they're pretty closely optimized even though they have similar, or dramatically different H and E arrays... That means nothing, in a 'dense' network... a nanosecond or a microvolt can mean a big difference when a lot of stations record the same impulse.
In a very low density area, a nanosecond or a microvolt can be the difference in being one of the 'detectors'... and actually recording a 'strike' in a previously 'barren' area... . Yeah, the accuracy might be poor, and the 'strike' count relatively low... >
BUT SOMEBODY HAS TO BE THE FIRST....!
Try the station there... what do you have to lose?
