[OKDXA] Another LoTW Question

[P Thompson]

Peter and Tom,
Thanks for the great info...I didn't even know you could check the queue!
Now if they just could calculate an "expected wait time in queue" based on
the waiting queue size and processor load, maybe that would help too.  For
the record, I TQSL at least once every 2-3 days, sometimes several in one
day, and I rarely have to wait longer than a few minutes.  Agree with the
contest wait, though!

Paul N5PT

On Wed, Nov 3, 2021 at 12:10 PM Peter Laws N5UWY <n5uwy at arrl.net> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 3, 2021 at 9:03 AM Thomas Webb <tmwebb at cox.net> wrote:
> >
> > Gary,
> >
> >      This is the link to the LOTW queue status.  Not uncommon for log
> processing
> > to take hours, sometimes days, after a big contest.
> >
> > http://www.arrl.org/logbook-queue-status
>
> Even after CQWW, it shouldn't take more than an  hour or two to clear
> the queue.  I don't know how they sized the modernized system, but it
> was probably at some percentage of maximum load because you don't size
> it for the Monday after CQWW.
>
> ~10 years ago, the system melted down.  An Ad Hoc committee of experts
> from the membership (there were none at HQ) came up with a rescue plan
> and that's why it's been mostly stable since.  One of the problems
> identified was that ops were re-uploading their signed QSOs multiple
> times when they didn't get a result.  The queue status pages and
> feedback about status of uploads was added but more importantly, when
> League member K1MU took over the moribund TQSL project and moved it
> beyond Beta stage, he added a mechanism for the program to keep track
> of what QSOs had been signed and warned the user not to re-upload
> (with the option to ignore).  One of the main parts of that rescue
> plan was to get the DB off of a DBMS that had long been out of support
> and on to something modern.  AFAIK, that was accomplished.  Whether HQ
> still runs the DB on hardware at 225 Main St or if it's in an actual
> data center on someone else's hardware is not known to me.  I hope
> it's the latter, but ...
>
> One of the people on that committee, AA6YQ, resigned from it without
> saying why but my guess is that he was frustrated that things weren't
> moving along.  Dave would never Tell Tales, so there's no way of
> knowing, but if others of his high qualifications also quit it means
> that staff (and probably some of the BoD) wouldn't get out of the way.
> Most of  the roadblocks have "retired" or were voted out/didn't choose
> to run again, so I expect that things are moving again.
>
> If it takes more than 6 hours to clear the queue, then that Ad Hoc
> committee needs to be reconvened and maybe with the changes at HQ and
> on the Board, real progress will be made.  Looks like the queue is
> currently measured in minutes, for the record.
>
> Peter
> You have 18,636 QSO records
> You have 11,796 QSL records
>
>
>
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