I've read the thread on the LOTW reflector. Hard to stomach. They should build another reflector for "impatient IT experts." Dave tries to inject some sanity into the discussion but it always gets out of control.

I'm very happy with LOTW. Better than waiting over a year for a mailed card hoping your money wasn't stolen before it got there.

Steve QQ

On Mar 30, 2023, at 4:50 PM, WB5JJJ <[email protected]> wrote:

I, for one, am not one who likes software that uploads to LoTW one at a time. If I use such a program, I disable the realtime uploads. I know many don't care, they just want instant gratification in everything they do.

I too remember the "good old days" of the paper QSL exchange, and I still love collecting cards as I'm up to almost 1,000 now after 49 years and 11 months of doing so.

Otherwise, instant uploads are a total waste of LoTW computer resources. I wish this would be banned so that only batches of say 10 or more are allowed. Or even a max number of QSO's in a 24-hour period until they work through this server bottleneck. As they say in pileups, "Spread it out guys". With FT8/4 and some logging programs that creates a bunch of single uploads that stress on the system for sure.

Plus, I always double-check my contacts no matter what mode, especially those that I have to enter manually for SSB/CW and such. Fat fingers always rule.

And like Joel, I want instant gratification, but that comes at a price. I prefer to wake up in the morning and check to find that an ATNO has been uploaded to LoTW and I have verification, even if it was several months (or years) ago. And yes, I've worked folks that use one at a time loggers and I see their confirmation within a couple of minutes many times right after a bulk upload of mine. But if you are NOT a DXPedition, why do this?

Which is worse during a contest, one at a time or everybody uploading their log in the first hour after the contest closes, like me? And then you have guys who finally get around to digitizing their log from the past half-century of operation and uploading it all right at the end of a contest by accident.

To each his own, but remember you are just one of thousands that use the 20+ year old system on a daily basis. Until the upload section of LoTW is updated, please be considerate of others.

Perhaps a seperate computer system (buffer) to handle the uploads and then pass them off to the LoTW computer system in a timely manner without LoTW being clobbered so often by single QSO uploads or massive 30m ones as well? Take these individual QSO files and merge them into larger files to then be passed on to LoTW as one.

73's

George - WB5JJJ
HoIP - 100105

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