I've had no issues with the 52 turn panels here in Chicago. I have the gain set 4x2, which gives great range, nice waveforms, and restricts interference mode to significant activity <=200 mile or so. I typically get a nice steady .8 - 1.2 counts/sec with moderate distant activity.
Oh, and we are one step closer to data integration! The strike data and station data is now available on the site. You have to construct a URL to pull 10-minute strike data.
Here is one strike's worth of data:
2013-08-01 15:00:21.055525196 pos;28.617910;-87.120447;0 fst;1375369220057281749 str;21.15 typ;0 dev;25293 sta;11;12;677,654,689,652,681,668,657,671,656,660,670,670
There is the date and time stamp, position, time epoch, estimated strike energy, and stations involved in the position estimate.
The indication of stations involved is this portion:
sta;11;12;677,654,689,652,681,668,657,671,656,660,670,670
It means 12 stations reported the same signal and 11 of them were used to calculate the position. That is followed by a list of station ID, in ascending order of time stamp. The last station in the list heard the strike, but was not used to calculate position, likely because of geometry issues.
Don