> and the difficulty of signing up their multiple portable operations.
There is absolutely no issue of singing a portable operation once you
have the initial certificate. It takes less than one business day
unless the operation is from a location that has specific access and
licensing requirements. Even then, it's no more difficult than sending
the same documentation to ARRL that would be needed to be accepted for
DXCC (typically copy of license and landing permit).
Anyone who complains about the sign-up process is too lazy to send
copies of license and ID (equivalent to ham ticket and drivers
license) with a valid mailing address and wait for the password to
be mailed to the address on the ID.
In many cases the process can be short circuited by providing the
documentation in person at one of the many international conventions
ARRL/DXCC/LotW staff attend on a regular basis.
73,
... Joe, W4TV
On 12/10/2012 7:54 PM, R.T.Liddy wrote:
There needs to be a way for getting on LOTW to be made a lot
simpler, especially for remote DX. The entire procedure should
be able to be done on-line. I've seen a number of stations on
QRZ.com making comments about the complexity of LOTW
and the difficulty of signing up their multiple portable operations.
Bob K8BL
--- On Mon, 12/10/12, Art - W6KY <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Art - W6KY <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Dx4win] LotW Backlog continues to grow ...
To: "N3SL" <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Date: Monday, December 10, 2012, 7:35 PM
Note: All award submissions are fast because
dollars are included....Simple... My DX
Challenge was approved in hours! Somehow
anything with money attached spits out first!!
Maybe, try attaching a Green Stamp to your
LOTW submission!
LOTW is still better than surface mail unless
the DX isn't on LOTW due to the insane sign up
procedure..Try sitting in your Yurt in Mongolia
waiting for your 'postcard' from LOTW to show up!
73, Art W6KY
www.w6ky.com
.............................................
Male deer have buck teeth.
________________________________
From: N3SL <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Mon, December 10, 2012 1:47:29 PM
Subject: Re: [Dx4win] LotW Backlog continues to grow ...
Not sure how "current" their delay announcements are, as a CQWW log
uploaded on 12/1 has yet to be processed.
But on the other hand, DXCC submissions via LoTW are super-fast. Submitted
my "annual" update last evening at 8:40 and had all accredited at 9:49.
So some parts are working well....
*Steve, N3SL*
Sioux City, IA
CQ4 ITU7 EN12
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Joe Subich, W4TV <[email protected]> wrote:
Delay keeps growing. Up to 8 days just a few minutes ago.
Agreed - 8 days 14 hours! At the current rate of growth the
delay will be 9 days before tomorrow. Here are the latest
numbers I have:
Upload Time Time Processed Elapsed Time
==============================**=========================
2012/11/23 18:00 2012/11/27 00:43 3 06:43:34
2012/11/28 22:32 2012/12/05 02:08 6 03:35:10
2012/11/29 18:38 2012/12/06 05:10 6 10:32:20
2012/11/30 00:58 2012/12/06 18:24 6 17:26:26
2012/11/30 17:04 2012/12/07 17:28 7 00:24:16
2012/12/01 08:20 2012/12/08 19:09 7 10:49:15
2012/12/01 12:30 2012/12/09 01:10 7 12:40:49
2012/12/02 05:00 2012/12/10 19:31 8 14:31:29
The delay is growing out of control - between 12/1 and 112/2
there were 2.5 times as many QSOs uploaded as LotW processed
and LotW has been processing an *average* of 11,000 QSOs per
minute or about 264,000 QSOs per day based on the information
on the home page.
If one plots a trend line, the delay is growing exponentially.
The trend indicates a file uploaded *today* is not likely to
be processed *for more than five weeks* based on the current
rate of growth in the backlog. Based on the processing time
for files uploaded at 0500z on 12/2, there were about 2.25
million unprocessed QSOs in the queue at that time - and that
was 48 hours *after* the deadline for submitting CQWW CW logs.
With the trend in growth between 11/25 and 12/2, the queue could
hold as many *10 million* unprocessed QSOs (although that is
unlikely)!
I know the folks in Newington are saying "trust us," but their
performance - and complete failure to provide *current data* -
particularly the failure to provide accurate current status on
the size of the processing queue - makes trust very difficult.
73,
... Joe, W4TV
On 12/10/2012 12:14 PM, Jim wrote:
Agree with others. ARRL need to fix this thing and fix it quick!!!!
Unbelievable processing times. Delay keeps growing. Up to 8 days just a
few minutes ago. Love the program/system but unless they can come up
with a way to handle the load, then it will die on the vine.......
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