Re: [DX-NEWS] LOTW still off-line

2012-11-08 Thread Les Kalmus
I am convinced they have crashed several times in recent months. There's no way to know since they are secretive about what goes on up there. It seems that when there is a large volume of uploads, they tend to fail which probably means inadequate capacity and/or bugs. Les W2LK On 11/7/2012

Re: [DX-NEWS] LOTW still off-line

2012-11-08 Thread Les Kalmus
Larry, Because the system was unavailable a couple of weekends ago. I did an upload early Friday evening. Then another a little later. The first one got processed, the second not until Monday late morning. To me, a systems manager, that's a clear sign things crashed and got restarted when

Re: [DX-NEWS] VP8ORK on 160 - how are you hearing him?

2011-02-04 Thread Les Kalmus
I am in NY near Kingston. I have heard them on 160 after around 11PM but some nights they are really weak or not really hearable. I finally worked them Wednesday night. I heard them better on an inverted L than on a beverage pointed in their general direction. Les W2LK On 2/4/2011 12:39 AM,

Re: [DX-NEWS] Postage

2009-03-04 Thread Les Kalmus
http://www.usps.com/ Click on the menu calculate postage. Les W2LK Ron Polityka wrote: Hello, Anyone know where I can find an accurate postage calculator for the overseas Post Offices. 73 Ron de WB3AAL --- To unsubscribe or