[SCCC] LOTW

[Dennis Younker NE6I]

As an additional point of reference (a couple of others have commented about 
the delay), my CQWW log was finally processed today. I submitted it Oct 30, 
so call it nine days to process. Interestingly, I submitted a few Q's from 
my normal day to day log on Nov 5. That submission was processed within 
hours. Not sure how that submission got high priority and "took cuts" over 
everyone else in line. I submitted my ARRL SS log on Nov 6 a short time 
after the contest ended. It will be interesting to see how long that one 
takes to process.

Please do not interpret this as me being critical of ARRL LOTW. Quite the 
contrary. I admire the effort the ARRL has put into LOTW. I simply suspect 
that they may not have been prepared for this year's onslaught of CQWW 
submissions. I simply posted this as feedback about how long my logs took to 
process at this time.

>From my vantage point, LOTW has made QSLing infinitely easier than the paper 
QSL method, and much more economical. Not to mention faster!  Someday, I 
hope LOTW will be accepted for CQ awards (WAZ, WPX, etc) and other non-ARRL 
awards.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dennis Younker NE6I" <ne6i at cox.net>
To: "Southern Cal Contest Club" <sccc at contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 6:13 PM
Subject: [SCCC] LOTW


> ARRL LOTW is dealing with a large amount of submissions from last 
> weekend's
> CQWW Phone Contest. This is from the ARRL web site:
>
> The log processing delay for Logbook of The World (LoTW) remains at
> approximately 60 hours, with approximately 8000 logs queued for 
> processing.
> Please do not upload the same log more than once. According to ARRL IT
> Manager Michael Keane, K1MK, the League has implemented an interim "fast
> lane" for processing logs: "In order to do this, resources have been 
> shifted
> from servicing interactive requests to the processing of logs. As a 
> result,
> LoTW users may notice some sluggish performance. Since these changes have
> been put into place, the number of logs waiting to be processed has been
> reduced by approximately 20 percent. The expectation is that this new
> measure will continue to make inroads into eliminating the backlog."
>
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