This kind of ignorant response is frankly infuriating and in itself
shows why wsprnet.org is going to hell to put it kindly....
I am very active in the LF/MF community and WSPR is heavily used for
propagation studies, realtime band opening indication, etc. Ask anyone
in at least the US and VK LF/MF community what they think of wsprnet.org...
There are definitely spots that never make their way to the database,
numerous in fact. The poor system performance is a recurring topic in
the LF/MF chat group. Almost nightly someone complains about slow
response or that the database part of the site just simply will not
load. You can't definitively say all spots are being imported into the
database... from the site's vantage point there is no way of knowing
what is missed due to the site being unreachable when those lost spots
are coming in.
The "database" part of the site is very often extremely slow to load or
never loads at all. Eventually, without fail, on a daily basis, the
page will fail to load when left open in a browser tab when it attempts
to auto refresh.
I understand you are not part of the technical team, but perhaps the
ones responsible can be given the message loud and clear and not
continue to assume all is fine. The site (specifically the database
infrastructure) needs serious intervention. The folks that are
responsible for maintaining the site's functional integrity have failed
miserably. Time to step up or pass the responsibility on to a competent
team.
73 Eric NO3M
On 10/14/19 3:45 PM, Erwin Serle via wsjt-devel wrote:
Not sure why you come to these conclusions, the website is not slow,
it is not abandoned and the spots enter the database nicely.
The map issue is explained in the wsprnet org forum with the
appropriate solution as well.
Users are managed steadily albeit sometimes slowly as I am probably
the only user admin doing any work on it at all most of the time.
The other admins focus on keeping the site itself up and running and
solving the more technical issues.
Happy to give more insight if needed:
Erwin,
PE3ES/F4VTQ
On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 4:59 AM Benjamin Bänziger
<helios.sola...@gmx.ch <mailto:helios.sola...@gmx.ch>> wrote:
Hi,
This is probably not the right place for this issue, but all other
options didn't get attention unfortunately.
Over the past months and years, wsprnet got continuously slower,
as more
and more people used the service.
Since a few months, wsprnet got unreachable for minutes multiple
times a
day. It is common that database requests time out.
wsprnet does also regularly lose wspr spots, because it is overloaded.
Since a week now, the map on wsprnet.org <http://wsprnet.org>
doesnt work anymore.
The official wsprnet e-mail is refusing e-mails since at least one
year(!)
Over the past months, there have been countless complaints in the
wsprnet forum. And also countless offers to help to resolve this
issue,
also offers for donations.
Yet nobody seems to take action.
I ask you to please find somebody who takes care of wsprnet.org
<http://wsprnet.org>. WSPR is
the best mode I've seen in ham radio for exploring propagation. It
would
be very sad to see it go down like this.
wsprnet is a very important part of the WSPR mode.
Thanks.
73
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