[Dx4win] Help with LOTW

[David Kozinn - K2DBK]

At 07:27 AM 4/30/2004, Pete Smith wrote:
>At 07:20 AM 4/30/04, Floyd Sense wrote:
>>I'll add a comment to David's good explanation.  When I did my first ADIF
>>export of a 10,000 QSO log, I was convinced it hadn't worked because the
>>export completed almost instantaneously.  I was prepared for at least many
>>seconds of watching a QSO counter step down or something similar.  I was
>>surprised to find the ADIF file was indeed complete when I looked at it with
>>Wordpad.
>
>Got plenty of that when you signed the log, though, right?  The signing 
>routine is quite slow, for whatever reason.

I believe that the signing function, which also does some encryption and 
compression, is probably quite computationally "expensive". My logs aren't 
nearly that big (I think I've got around 6,000 total), but it did take 
quite a while to process the big initial chunk that I submitted. 
Fortunately, computers are pretty good about just doing what they're told 
without a human staring at the screen, so when I realized that it was going 
to take a while, I went off and did something else. (Maybe even worked a 
little DX! <grin>)


>I'm looking forward to May 3 when LOTW is supposed to activate the 
>interface with DXCC.


73,
         David, K2DBK