MaPantz:
I can only echo the words from JupiterJoe,
I have not had as much activity as I'd like, and the solution is more stations, especially in the Midwest in the USA. I'm not sure how to get the word out, but hopefully weather enthusiasts will get on board. The setup is really pretty easy!
When the Blitzortung project was getting underway there were very few stations here in the USA. One poor chap out in Hawai'i had a very low participation count, as you can imagine. Even though there have been growing pains, and the hardware needs to be assembled (including some fine but easily enough done with patience soldering of a few components) the number of stations in that network has grown a lot, and now is over 300, I think, at last look. The coverage for the USA is pretty good, but even so there will be a strike near me and I'll look at the map and nothing. I know many strikes are just not sensed, submitted and then the central computers can do their things. Also I think there are differences in cloud to ground vs. cloud to cloud and some are not possible to detect, or are ignored by design.
Like the old saying goes, a society (weather project) grows great when old men plant a tree (put up a station) which they know they will never sit in the shade of (see the end result show lots of strikes.)
Even though I'm pretty old, I hope to feed data to both networks and make the hobby as a group or team effort have great participants.
My encouragement can only go so far, but there really is minimal work once you get the box installed, hooked up to the internet (I put mine on an uninterruptable power supply and have had no problems) and the one sense antenna mounted.
Go for it, and maybe not in a few months, but over some time this will blossom! Dale