Efficiency

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Cutty:

Efficiency = Strokes Detected / Signals Sent
Effectivity = Strokes Detected / Signals Sent - Strokes Detected

Has anyone used the above on real numbers?
Recent grab from the stations list of my station (1627) and the three closest others:

Sta   Sent  Used   L       Eff     Eft
1690  1240  184  14%  15%  17%
1627    274   71  11%  26%  35%
1645  1714  180  10%  11%  12%
1620  1395  140  10%  10%  11%

L : Current Effectivity L (S and M where zero).
Eff : Used/Sent
Eft : Used/(Sent - Used)

Hey, I like this new measure. B-)

Hi All, I have yet to see any figures for Effectivity "S", ever, at my station and rarely get figures for Effectivity "M," even though some of the strokes are listed in the archives at only 25  km away and many more in the 100 to 300 km range.
I would like to see these numbers extended over a much greater time period, maybe several time options, 1 hr, 4 hrs, 12 hrs, one day, one week, one month, Total of all!
Some people have not yet realised, that if their station is sending many signals to the server and if there is no lightning in their vicinity, it is a sure sign that your station has a problem.
Yes, we all probably take more attention, when there is a lot of action on the screen, but it is also important to see what your station is doing during the "quiet" times.
Just another idea, may be we should not be looking so much at Individual station Efficiency/Effectivity, but at Overall Network Efficiency.
What are the effects of varying the number of stations needed to validate a stroke, on the description it says the more the better, but how many strokes are not recorded, because there were too few station to validate them, maybe by quite a small margin, i.e, because only ten, or even less, stations registered the stroke!
Is all this data lost?
Why are so few stations actually contributing to this forum. This is an important question for us all and I am sure there are many people brighter than me that would have perfectly valid ideas on this subject, if only they would state them, instead of keeping them to themselves.
Maybe, we need a "Banner Headline" Page, that appears every time we open the maps in our browsers, that gives a summary of the days events and the present situation of the network?
Regards,

Brian.