Efficiency

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 Today there is no lighting activity in Europe to speak of (the Europe static map had a count of 7 (seven) a moment ago). My station sample produced this:

As there is no lilghtining all the measures are zero, yet stations are still sending 1000's of signals/hour. This can really only be local noise. We  could rename "Effciency" to "Waste" and invert the calculation trapping the divide by zero problem to return 100%. Trouble is everyone above is 100% wasteful which, while technically correct, isn't useful. Is there some way to have a meaningful "Waste" value when the Used count is zero?

Maybe an "allowable noise" number? (<Sent> - <allowance>)/<sent>  trouble is if your under allowance you end up with a negative "waste".

Ideas?

This is not true! Who are you going to believe?

There is Lightning activity in Europe. All these stations are sending all these signals to the server? Therefore there must be lightning in Europe!
(I think therefore I am!)

http://en.blitzortung.org/station_list.p...t_rows=100

There must be a problem with the server?

   

   

Since Ten o'clock yesterday?

Having said that! Even if there is lightning in Europe it is probably not at a very high level. So, one has to ask:-
WHY are all these stations sending all these signals to the server?  (I am! Therefore, it must be so!) 

http://en.blitzortung.org/station_list.p...t_rows=100

Kindest regards,

Brian.