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??
I miss also other indicators. Currently, only a few percent of the signals my station sends are used in strokes by the network, but looking at the signals I am quite sure that almost all of them are from real sferics. To judge if I could reduce the number of signals I would need a histogram of the peak voltage of signal sent and another one of the peak voltage of signals used for strokes. Preferably this should be a long-time histogram, not only for the last hour. I could then decide if I could raise the threshold in order to concentrate more on the signals useable for the network. Without this information, its almost impossible to make a reasonable choice.
In short, I miss a number of indicators that would allow me to make a objective analysis of the station.
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??
I miss also other indicators. Currently, only a few percent of the signals my station sends are used in strokes by the network, but looking at the signals I am quite sure that almost all of them are from real sferics. To judge if I could reduce the number of signals I would need a histogram of the peak voltage of signal sent and another one of the peak voltage of signals used for strokes. Preferably this should be a long-time histogram, not only for the last hour. I could then decide if I could raise the threshold in order to concentrate more on the signals useable for the network. Without this information, its almost impossible to make a reasonable choice.
In short, I miss a number of indicators that would allow me to make a objective analysis of the station.
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