Tom said:
The hardware upgrade should provide a fairly immediate impact, but the impact of duplicate records will need work in the future. They're working hard to get the new drives on line as soon as possible.
Barry - correct me if I'm wrong ...
Barry has some meetings this afternoon, but I can provide an update. Tom, you're right. The hardware arrived, is installed, and appears to be meeting expectations. There's more work and testing to be done before it's ready for "production" but so far, so good. As I understand it, files that are exact duplicates aren't much of a problem. Files that consist mostly, but not entirely, of duplicate QSOs are more of a problem. This occurs, for example, when someone uploads their entire log every time rather than just the new QSOs, or when someone makes corrections to a contest log and sends the whole thing again rather than just the corrected QSOs. The question of how best to deal with duplicates will be addressed after the new hardware is on line. 73, Dave Sumner, K1ZZ P.S. Until this morning I had only been in the office for three hours since December 13, the result of a combination of travel, illness and holiday. I am taking Friday and Monday off and plan to be in the office full time beginning on January 2. If you have sent me an email and are waiting for a reply, please be patient -- my queue is not as large as LoTW's but unlike LoTW I am not working through it on a strict first-in/first-out basis.