What this station gave
Every public station page has been able to describe a receiver as hardware: uptime over thirty days, day streak, typical range, positions counted, the shape of its horizon. All true, all useful when you are aiming an antenna, and all completely silent about the thing that makes running one worth doing.
An antenna in Skydex is not a monitoring device. It is where the aircraft in the game come from. Until today the only hint of that on a station page was a single line — the rarest aircraft it had heard that somebody has since caught. One line, out of everything that passed overhead.
The section
Station pages now carry What this station gave:
- how many aircraft it heard that are in somebody's collection
- how many different collectors hold those cards
- how many types and airlines are behind them
- how many were heard here alone — nobody else in the network picked them
up that day
Then a short shelf of the rarest of them, each linking to its own aircraft page, with the solo ones marked.
That last number is the interesting one, and it is new in a second sense: the field it comes from has existed in the database since the day the schema was written, and nothing ever filled it in. Solo catches are the only figure here that depends on what everyone else heard, so they cannot be worked out while writing one station's row — they need a pass across the whole day, and that pass did not exist. It runs now, every ten minutes, for today and for yesterday.
What it deliberately does not say
The wording is "heard here, then caught by somebody" — never "this station served that catch". A catch can be served by the paid fallback source, and the data does not support the stronger claim, so the page does not make it. Same loose join the rarest-aircraft line has always used, same honesty.
It also does not rank anyone. A receiver near a busy approach will always out- count a rural one, which is exactly why solo sits next to caught: a quiet antenna somewhere nobody else is listening produces the rarer number of the two, and the page shows both.
None of this needed new data collection. Both halves — which airframes a station heard, and which airframes players hold — have been in the database for weeks. They had simply never been put side by side.