Maybe it is having troubles and I'm too dumb to see it.
Heh... I don't believe that for a minute.
I'm not seeing strikes as far, but that happens. I've rechecked gains and they were un changed from the pre-update levels.
I sensed the same thing in some circumstances... I believe they are testing various quality paradigms from ... sig versus noise level, trigger vs noise, etc. Remember when it was suggested several times over the last year, that for network effectiveness and accuracy, individual station 'distance records' and ego might become much less important than QC in the 50-1000 km (30-600 mi) range?
Remember that I'm using only the E field antenna, by H field electronics got soaked and I didn't get the new board out there yet.
I wonder if that has anything to do with the system being stable. Certainly can have something to do with distance, but with a much more populated US now, distance hasn't been my goal.
Also, I believe the 'processing' of E signals is undergoing some experimentation,... Blue will only send one E channel (Vertically polarized sferics).
For experimentation with horizontally polarized sferics, the Third H channel on BLUE can be experimented with as a vertically mounted Horizontally polarized loop for M(H) ... which also, barring great shielding .. might detect some of the Vertically polarized E signal component of DIFFERENT or associated sferics... arrrggghhh... so here we traipse off into very well designed antennas, standardization, server processing, firmware... and many stations experimenting with the third H loop. Daunting, since delays are different inherently between the various Large loops vs. Ferrites, as well as the 3 channels of RED E. And remember that distant strokes are not Ground Wave .. they're Sky Wave components, with natural distortion and delays beyond the original discharge. So a lot of emphasis is being placed on 'quality', if you will... More to it than this, but this is confusing enough without a lot more coffee this morning...
That 3rd Blue H loop can otherwise be 'disabled', and blue operated with two 90° loops, as current systems, or the three can be in "Delta" (60°) configuration which should improve the current station's geographical reception lobe pattern.
Don, the line color has to do with strike distance, didn't it? I thought station dot color had to do with whether or not the station was used in calculation, and blue if you saw the strike.
Originally, I think, on LMO Tobi had the line colors indicating >500 km or <500km. Last year, I think both sites changed to
Blue for the Primary and Secondary 'locators' (up to a max of 18??) and
green for other stations that detected the signal, but weren't used for computation. I think some brief experimentation was done with 'station' dot color also.
http://sferics.us currently utilizes the 'locator / other detector' mode, which are 'toggable' (?) on/off as BT was up until recently. Note that Sferics US only displays "Real Time" (last minute) on the large map.
I do know that the new map colors on real time lightning from the lightningmaps.org location, are a bit overwhelming, even selecting the lessor data amount selection (which, for me at least, isn't remembered from session to session, even though station detail setting is remembers in the radio selection area.)
Dale
Oh there will be even more changes, tests and trials on both websites! Give 'em yer feedback over on the BT internal boards...