[SFDXA] LoTW heading for Statistical Cliff?

[Bill]

Would anyone prefer to go back to mailing it in?


On 12/11/2012 7:12 AM, Norman Alexander wrote:
> There are those who do not think that the League has this LoTW processing issue
> under control.  See comments from W4TV, of Microham below.
>
>
> Norm
> ======================================================
>
>> 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
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Mark Horowitz <k2au at hotmail.com>
> To: sfdxa <sfdxa at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Tue, December 11, 2012 6:05:19 AM
> Subject: [SFDXA] FW: lotw
>
>
> Dec 10, 2012: LoTW Log Processing is About 8 Days Behind -- For more information
> on what has been happening with LoTW lately, please see this news item.  NEW...
> The bug that was causing the problem has been fixed.  But there is still a large
> queue of logs steadily being processed.  Thanks for your patience.
>
> HAVE A GREAT DAY MARK PLANTATION, FLORIDA
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