(2017-10-31, 07:39)pasense Wrote: Cutty, I like your proposal, especially the distinction between local (G3) and long distance (G2) stations. One of the problems ist now to find out to what degree a station sends real sferics, even from very distant strokes or only spurious signals. So far, I look at the life signal from my station to see if they look fine, but this is of course not really an objective measure. Looking for a solution I just stumbled on the following:
http://wwlln.net/spectra.html
These plots show the sferics as thin vertical lines and the noise sources as horizontal ones. This gives a very good idea on the type of noise environment the station is working in. Do we have any means to generate plots like this for our stations??
The 'waterfall' spectrums are great... in a manner of speaking, the 'compression' hatch marks, when they're turned on, in effect perform an analogous presentation.... 'hashed' areas considered 'noise.
Let's not overly digest the suggestion... any 'signal' entering the system, and hits trigger threshold will be a 'signal sent'. Now, a large portion of these are, in fact, a sferic. For Fringe area stations, at distance, for example, they may NOT be recognized by enough other stations to be called a 'strike'. So, they degrade the 'efficiency' . 'effectivity' percentage. Now, as other stations come online, or optimize better, the same sferic, previously just 'noise' can be recognized as a 'stroke'. Remember takes 4 stations minimum to locate. And some geographic regions with high density of stations require more stations minimum... hopefully improving location error (deviation).
Enough stations can improve everyone's 'efficiency / effectivity' to some degree. Enough stations would potentially also enable the 'timing' of signals to be 'tightened' perhaps, thus making a dramatic improvement in deviation.
