[SFDXA] LOTW - 13 days and counting

Fri May 31 19:34:35 EDT 2024

Rich, 
I understand your concerns. I am an ARRL Life Member since 1982, and I just got back on HF in April after a 10 year absence from the bands. My last operation was from the SFDXA station in January 2015. 
I look at it this way, I save my contacts in my N3FJP logging software. Eventually, the issue will be resolved and I can upload and download my contacts again.
Meanwhile, I view the LoTW issue as an inconvenience, yet I find humor in this situation to relieve the stress of the situation.
AL N2DUI 
"Why is it I get my best ideas while shaving?"--Albert Einstein
"I would never want to belong to any club that would consider having me as a member."--Groucho Marx

    On Friday, May 31, 2024 at 07:16:08 PM EDT, wb4ehg <wb4ehg at rjoerger.com> wrote:  

Sorry, just a slight correction.

I have to know MY limitations when working CW or a fast contest, lifting weights, ...

Our organizations, hams, politicians and others, need to know theirs.

And WE have to tell them, clearly, where theirs are. Where we will stop being supporters.

The ARRL is member funded. Businesses that are on the stock market are responsible to their share holders.

The ARRL is responsible to us. To tell US what is going on, to fix it. We pay them. How are they different from any other company we buy from/invest in? Depend on?

I'm truthful when I say that I worked in data communications (I was a design engineer and then manager and then systems architect, attended forums, architected new products (datacom, DSL, Fiber, ...) I've seen managers fired within a week, vice presidents fired faster than this for data breaches or viruses knocking out data centers or labs. Take a test lab off line for a week? You will be in a bread line in 2 weeks.

If no one is held responsible then there is no reason to excel, go the extra mile to do it right. It's easy to go to the dinners, soak up the liquor, schmooze with the customers and investors (been there, done it, a real ego trip), but you have to deliver.

I'll put it this way, if I owned stock in the ARRL, well, I would not. Just like I have dumped stock in previously good companies that "woke" up (sorry for the politics but selling investments at a loss indicates seriousness).

73, Rich

 On 5/31/2024 22:48, AT&T Mail wrote:

  I suspect if Clint Eastwood's character, "Dirty"Harry Callahan was a ham (N6DHC), he might respond to the LoTW issue stating, "a ham has gotta know his limitations." 
  AL N2DUI 

    "Why is it I get my best ideas while shaving?"--Albert Einstein 
    "I would never want to belong to any club that would consider having me as a member."--Groucho Marx 

      On Friday, May 31, 2024 at 05:56:54 PM EDT, wb4ehg <wb4ehg at rjoerger.com> wrote:  

It's always the cover up that gets 'em.

Unless, as someone suggested, there is a Gvmt security issue, someone in management would be on the street already. I know upper level guys let go sooner than this.

Keeping a lid on it just makes it worse and causes unnecessary suspicion and FUD.

73, Rich

  On 5/28/2024 1:34, Randy Shirley wrote:

    Yep Steve!  I'm starting to very nervous about this!  Their latest messages said that the data was in tack!  I'm really starting to wonder now!

 Randy N4QV
 President SFDXA

 On 5/27/2024 7:58 AM, The Romagni's wrote:

      13 Days and  counting... by now any CTO or CEO would had been fired...  
  Steve W4DTA 

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