On 12/15/2012 Donald Greenbaum wrote:
> I don't understand the angst over a backlog of processing data during > the end of the year rush. Unless the world really is going to end in > a week like the Mayans predicted. > 73 > Don > N1DG Partly because those of us who have been watching have come to realize that LOTW was 1)Losing files - which the league finally admitted and 2)the processing rate is getting MUCH slower, to the point that the delay is getting longer and longer, on the rough order of 20-23 hours/day (most days). The are currently at 10+ days - at THAT rate, we will be at 18 days for a file that is uploaded today, by that time, we'll be at 36 days. If things are not fixed, in 2-3 months, the backlog will be LONGER than your 3 months to get a card back The issue is not even that. I don't know if you are in the software business, I am, and a lot of people who are worried are also. We are seeing the symptoms of a system that is in distress and in danger of failure. We know that these kinds of problems are NOT usually a simple fix, and even if it is, there is significant testing needed. The time to call for the ARRL to fix the problem is before the system fails. Think of it like the STS Challenger - the engineers were watching the O rings, and were saying 'there are problems, that seem to get worse at low temps, but management kept saying 'no problem'. The trick is to SEE the problem BEFORE the system totally melts down This is the system showing a cough, and maybe if we do something now, we can save it before it dies, instead of waiting for it to turn to pneumonia and dyeing ----------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org -----------------------------------------------------------
