Receiver settings, Receiver activation – Boltek NexStorm Lite User Manual
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Lightning Detection Software, Version 1.0
Receiver settings
Allows you to set the StormTracker receiver squelch and to adjust the Noise sensitivity filter.
High squelch settings (above 4) will cause many weak signals to be filtered out by the receiver and should be
avoided as it will affect the precision of strike ranging and TRAC. If you have a signal pollution problem with a
substantial amount of false strikes being plotted on your map, you should first and foremost try to locate and
eliminate the source of the false signal emissions.
The Noise sensitivity filter can be used to increase or decrease the amount of signals that are classified as
noises.
A setting of Low or Very low will allow more signals to be classified as strikes while a setting of High or Very
high will filter out more signals as noises. Use this setting with caution, lowering it might in some cases allow
for better ranging in general but could in other cases interfere with the ranging process and make it unreliable.
Setting the Noise filter to High or Very high might in some instances alleviate problems with false stroke signal
sources in your vicinity although the higher noise filter that is used, the higher percentage of actual strike
signals will be discarded as well. The best way to determine which setting to use with your StormTracker
installation is through experimentation. Leave this setting at Default if you are not sure of which one to use or
if you don’t have any problems with false strikes.
Receiver activation
Check this checkbox this if you want NexStorm to automatically enable the StormTracker receiver when the
program is started.
Edition: 5/L1
2007-09-02
© 2007 Astrogenic Systems
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