Efficiency

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Mike, I use the term efficiency as given in the table view from lightningmaps.org.

OK; maybe its better to use effectivity

Thomas

Yes, that's the confusion, I think... the original post inquired about LMO "Efficiency", which Tobi computes differently, but the thread seemed to devolve to the "Paricipants" BO page "Effectivity" computation....

Tobi once told me something similar to, " there was no real way to arbitrarily compute" the matter under discussion, or that's what I understood him to say...  especially when this sentence is taken out of context from that discussion...  I think there's a post here where Tobi explained that, can't find it, and I could be wrong.. but it's different than Egon uses, or was.

I think when Egon looks at the main BO server, he's concerned about too many signals from too many stations, and would like to increase 'productivity' by decreasing the 'input', if possible, and a couple of other 'motives'... remember that last year, a "push toward"  station quality was 'hinted' at, and this is part of that, I think.

I can set my gains and thresholds right at the point of 'Interference Mode" and increase my total stroke detection by sending thousands of signals, but that does nothing to help "Network Efficiency"... has nothing to do with my station's "effectiveness" (I can detect strokes)... and certainly lowers "productivity" and "efficiency" .... The little circuit boards are "effective" at a high percentage, but doing useless work and forwarding that extra effort to the server, so to speak.

Mike